SARA
CHRISTOVA
Working across painting, installation, performance and audiovisual media,
Sara Christova (b.1994, Sofia, Bulgaria) explores phenomenology, transdimensionality and the art of navigating with no horizon.
Embracing alternative modes of perception and notions of distortion, decay and resonance, Christova’s work merges philosophy, physics and digital culture in a critique of the entropic nature of a global, networked civilisation. Her approach to contemporary life, spirituality and the sciences as entwined ontological narratives, allows her to investigate the liquid, fluctuating nature of these frameworks through intersections ubiquitous to our present moment in time.
Through a poetic diffusion of the boundaries between the material and the digital, the synthetic and the organic, the universal and the subatomic, she strives towards an understanding of the meta-narratives of the human condition. With an emphasis on the disjointed and non-linear experience of time in the digital era, she looks for meaning in an age of compounding crises.
Sara Christova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1994. She moved to the UK in 2013 to complete a BA in Illustration at Cardiff School of Art & Design (2016), and since then her cross-disciplinary works have been exhibited across the UK, Europe and East Asia—notably at Tate Modern Lates (CAP x Montez Press: Sonic Disruption, 2024), National Museum Cardiff (Museum Lates: Space, 2019), and the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture (Millennial: Bulgarian Illustration, 2017).
In 2023 she was awarded a distinction for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London, where she went on to complete her MA in Contemporary Art Practice in 2024. That year her graduate project LOCUS SOLUS won the Sculpture/Installation category of ARTS THREAD's Global Creative Graduate Showcase.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 FURIES COLLECTIVE: One Extended Meditation, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
Gathering Mythologies: Waymakers without Memory, Netil House, London, UK
Reverberations, All Is Joy Studios, London, UK
Honeyed Violence, FILET, London, UK
Uneasy in the Frame - Safehouse I, London, UK
RCA2024: Postgraduate Exhibition - Royal College of Art, London, UK
TATE MODERN LATES: Sonic Disruption - Tate Modern, London, UK
OUT OF REACH: The Enigma of Consciousness - Art in the Docks, London, UK
Beyond, and Within the Void - Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
CAP Cinema: Towards Levitation - Genesis Cinema, London, UK
Everything Must Go! - Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2023 Mirror Mirror on the Wall - IKLECTIK, London, UK
QUINTESENTI - W1Curates Studios, London, UK
2021 Simulacrum - Gin House, Sofia, BG
Bits of Personality Still Alive - Derrida Centre, Sofia, BG
Spring Awakening - London Paint Club, Online Viewing Room
2019 Under The Counter Culture - The Vicarage, Cardiff, UK
Museum Lates: SPACE - National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
Stillness in Motion - Blue Honey Night Café, Cardiff, UK
Under The Counter Culture - Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan
2018 Rogue Venus - West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff, UK
Open Thread - Jacob’s Market, Cardiff, UK
2017 Millennial: Bulgarian Illustration - National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG
AWARDS
2024 WINNER: ArtsThread: Global Creative Graduate Showcase (Installation/Sculpture)
Nominee: New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize
2022 Recipient: Business Wales: Barriers to Start Up Grant
RESIDENCIES
2022 CURAD, Cardiff, UK
2019 ALTERED EGO, Cardiff, UK
tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, UK
MEDIA / FEATURES
2024 Feature: @pai_32_
Artist Page: ARTS THREAD: Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024
Feature: @furies.collective
Feature: @performance_in_flux via Furies Collective
Artist Page: New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize, UK
Feature: @rca_contemporaryartpractice
2023 'a ghost that haunts the night', THE DODO Issue 1; RCA, London, UK
Feature: ACROSS & OVER , RCA Grad Dip x HSBC; London, UK
Feature: SAMPLER 87 , London, UK
Feature: @rcagraddip
2021 Artist Page: London Paint Club , UK
Feature: @londonpaintclub
@curadarts (Instagram takeover)
Art Hole 12, UK
2019 Sketchbook Sessions 01 @swearingiscool (Instagram)
‘Under The Counter Culture immersive art installation opens its doors’, Maude Agombar, UK
‘Sara Christova’ by Alfie Reddy (interview) YouTube; UK
2017 ‘Рафаила Райкова, Розалина Буркова, Сара Христова’, Milena Radeva, BG
© Sara Christova, 2024