Dimana Lateva

Bulgaria / Germany / AustriaArtists

Biography

Dimana Lateva completed her architecture studies at HafenCity University Hamburg, followed by a master's degree in stage design and scenic space at the Technical University of Berlin. She is an alumnus of the Academy of Music Theatre Today (AMTH), Deutsche Bank Foundation. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance stage and costume designer for opera, drama, and children's and youth theater in Germany, Austria, and Bulgaria. Her artistic works have been exhibited in Burgas, Varna, St. Pölten, and Vienna.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Blood From, 2025 Wood, glass, plexiglass, LED, theatre blood 95 x 95 x 10 cm; secondary element: 40 x 30 x 20 cm

Artists

The basis of my work is the story of Zdravka Evtimova “Blood of a Mole”. The inner sadness in the invisible interhuman border. In my ambition to find new boundaries and points of contact in interpersonal relationships, I use the field of a strategic game backgammon Everyone can be close and foreign and with a knife in hand. According to recent scientific studies, people are 99.9% identical. 0.1% are responsible for the differences between us, with external features being a significantly smaller percentage. However, the way we understand the other is entirely superficial and comes down to external features.