Gery Georgieva

Biography

Gery Georgieva (b. 1986 Varna, Bulgaria) is а multimedia artist who lives and works in London. Her practice encompasses video, performance, music, installation and sculpture. Taking inspiration from pop culture, showbiz, traditional folk heritage and mythology she repeatedly stages herself as a culturally migrational diva. In her performative gestures and musical alter egos, Georgieva negotiates identity as a site of mimicry and transformation — a space where pop and folk traditions collide and synthesise new meanings. Situated between the legacies of post-socialist memory and Western art discourse, her practice stages hybrid encounters where national and personal narratives are continuously translated. Through improvisation and self-staging, she examines how cultural identity is configured, interrogating media conventions, commercial gender roles and where they collide with ideas of nationhood. Recent shows include the touring exhibition ‘Evrovizion’ in Varna & Sofia and a public commission at Skanstull Metro Station Stockholm. Other solo projects include Cubitt, London; Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping and Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia. She has performed internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris MDT Stockholm, Royal Academy, arebyte and Block Universe all in London. Her films have been broadcast on Channel 4 UK and screened in MOCA, Cleveland Ohio, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, FRAC Occitane, Kunsthalle Lucerne amongst many others. Georgieva has been the recipient of the Frieze Film Commission and the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art amongst others. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools, London.