SARA
CHRISTOVA
Working across painting, installation, performance and audiovisual media, London-based artist Sara Christova (b.1994, Sofia, Bulgaria) explores phenomenology, transdimensionality and the art of navigating with no horizon.
Her practice evolves from elaborate research mapping and calculated material interplays, embracing alternative modes of perception and notions of distortion, decay, resonance and fluidity. Merging art, science, culture, and technology, Christova’s work poses a critique of the entropic nature of our global civilization.
Since 2016, Christova's work has been exhibited internationally (notably Tate Modern Lates, the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture, and National Museum Cardiff), and in that time she has worked and collaborated with a wide range of artists, collectives and institutions (IKLECTIK, W1Curates, tactileBOSCH, London Paint Club, Derrida Dance Center). In 2023 she was awarded a Distinction for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, where she went on to complete her MA in Contemporary Art Practice.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
GATHERING MYTHOLOGIES: Waymakers Without Memory
Hypha Studios, Netil House, 27 Sept - 3 Nov 2024
FURIES COLLECTIVE: One Extended Meditation
Copeland Gallery, London, 16-20 Oct 2024
PAST EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 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 New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize (nominee)
RESIDENCIES
2022 CURAD, Cardiff, UK
2019 ALTERED EGO, Cardiff, UK
tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, UK
MEDIA / FEATURES
2024 New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize (Featured Artist), UK
@rca_contemporaryartpractice (Instagram Artist Feature)
2023 'a ghost that haunts the night', THE DODO Issue 1; RCA, London, UK
ACROSS & OVER (web publication artist feature) RCA Grad Dip x HSBC; London, UK
SAMPLER 87 (publication artist feature); London, UK
@rcagraddip (Instagram artist feature)
2021 London Paint Club (Featured Artist), UK
@londonpaintclub (Instagram artist features)
@curadarts (Instagram takeover)
Art Hole 12 (publication feature); 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 (documentary interview, short) YouTube; UK
2017 ‘Рафаила Райкова, Розалина Буркова, Сара Христова’, Milena Radeva, BG
ART DIRECTION, DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
2024 illustrator, 'Passeggiate nel Mondo Invisibile', Vera Petrova (book), IT
social media manager, (instagram: @rca_contemporaryartpractice), London, UK
director, writer, photographer, editor, DA-i: Slay or Nay?, Royal College of Art, UK
2023 editor in chief, Sampler 87 (publication), Royal College of Art, UK
social media manager (instagram: @rcagraddip), London, UK
2022 illustrator, 'Разходки из невидимия свят', Vera Petrova (book) Kibea Publishing, BG
scenic artist, Cardiff Theatrical Services, Welsh National Opera, UK
2021 art director, mural artist, Denis Diderot School, ProCredit Group, BG
art director, LIVADI (organic produce shop), Sofia, BG
cover artist, 'Coffee In Cuckoo Land' Jamie McDonald & The Number Nein (album) BG
2020 writer, illustrator, 'Огромна Лилава Ябълка' (limited edition, self-published) UK/BG
workshop lead, (online creative workshop series); WCVA, Cardiff, UK
cover artist, AMPHIBIOS MIX001, Rhodri Price, Monoke (online dj series) UK
cover artist & identity design; Saccharyn (EP, website) UK
graphics & identity design, Truefest (festival) UK
2019 art director & chief specialist, sculpture commission for LittleBig Art, MOMA Wales, UK
art director, graphics & identity design, Truefest (festival) UK
stage designer, SWN Fest (festival) University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
artist/designer/maker/photographer, Daisy's Dressing Up Box, UK.
2018 illustrator, writer, Hazy Tale (self-published, limited edition zine) Cardiff, UK
cover illustrator, The Lotus Tribe (EP) Cardiff, UK
cover illustrator, Excellent Skeleton (EP) Cardiff UK
cover illustrator, 'Fresh Bits', Sock (album, vinyl) Bubblewrap Collective, Cardiff, UK
cover illustrator, 'bored', Sock (single) Bubblewrap Collective, Cardiff, UK
cover illustrator, 'wot2do', Sock (single) Bubblewrap Collective, Cardiff, UK
2017 illustrator, 'Basil', poem by Ellie Riddy in Are You Lost Yet? (online publication) UK
cover illustrator, Magi Mojaxx (EP), Cardiff, UK
2016 illustrator, 'Завихряне', Vera Petrova; Colibri, Sofia, BG
cover illustrator, 'Lullaby For A Dying Star', Lecu (fka Laowa, EP), Cardiff, UK
2011 illustrator, 'Вместо Книга', Vera Petrova; Gourmet Publishing, Sofia, BG
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