Working across painting, installation, and audiovisual media, Sara Christova explores phenomenology, transdimensionality and
the art of navigating with no horizon.
Sara Emil Christova (b. 1994, Sofia, Bulgaria) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London.
She approaches art, science and technology as entwined ontological narratives which offer unique perspectives into new forms of knowledge, as well as methods of understanding the boundless multidimensionality of the world we inhabit.
Driven by the motions of a global, entropic, networked civilisation in an age of compounding crises, Christova uses experimental material transfigurations and painting as tools for intuitive speculation, to observe how human presence reverberates through the present, past and future of our 'Pale Blue Dot'. Natural processes and environments in states of volatile equilibrium and artificial disruption become crucial to her works as both inspiration and outcome, evoking decay, mutation, and alternate states of being.
Through the delicate merger of ideas borrowed from myth, physics, archaeology, and digital culture, her works serve as both observations and explorations of the disjointed and non-linear experience of time in the digital era.
In 2024 Christova received an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, where she also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Art & Design in 2023. She received a BA (with Honours) in Illustration at Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2016 with the thesis "Art and the Sublime: Visualising the Unimaginable" an exploration of approaches to the visualisation of 'the sublime' as mythological, or divine, entities throughout history, culture, and contemporary art.
Her works have appeared at renowned institutions such as Tate Modern, the Sound Art Museum in Beijing, the Cardiff National Museum, and the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture. In 2025 she unveiled her first permanent installation, To See is to Make Worlds, during a dual residency hosted by Dulwich College Beijing and Elsewhere Culture.
Christova was recently awarded the Special Jury Prize at BUNA Vol.3: Forum for Contemporary Art (Varna, BG) for her site-specific installation LOCUS SOLUS 2.0 (2025) .