Sophia Grancharova

Sophia Grancharova was born in 1994 in the city of Sofia. She graduated with a BA of Fine Arts at ESAM (École Supérieure d'Arts et Médias) in Caen, France (2016). She participated in the educational program “Close Encounters – Visual Dialogues / School4artists” of the ICA-Sofia (2017) and in the experimental curatorial school at Swimming Pool in Sofia (2018). In 2019 she starts her MA in Visual arts at Luca School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

Among her participations in group exhibitions are: “Sofia Art Book Fair”, Sofia, Bulgaria (2017); “Close Encounters, School4artists”, ICA Sofia, (2017); “Art Start - Young Artists to Follow in 2018”, group exhibition, “Credo Bonum gallery”; BAZA award nominees exhibition, Sofia City Art Gallery (2018); “Alter Me&Alter You”, group exhibition at Goethe Institut Sofia, (2018); “Kodex (10)”, Goethe Institut Sofia (2019).

In 2018 she initiated her first curatorial project entitled "Space for Sparkling Water" in a hotel room at Dieter Hotel, Sofia, together with the artist Jordan Derrien. "Bad Relationships" is her first solo exhibition, "Gallery 2.0", Sofia, (2018). In the autumn of 2019 her second solo exhibition takes place at Vaska Emanouilova Gallery with curator Daniela Radeva.