Veronika Desova

BulgariaGalleries & Collectives

Biography

Veronika Desova is a Bulgarian and Scottish architect, teacher and conceptual artist currently based between New York and Sofia, Bulgaria. She works with ready-made architectural fragments, industrial design techniques, textiles, photography and performance art to explore the phenomenological relationship between architecture and the body. Her recent work explores durational and motorised sculptures which merge the identity of architectural systems with the somatic and physiological processes of sentient bodies. Through uniting these two entities, she creates an architecture that appears almost alive, yet remains mechanised.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera group presentation, 2025 Individual work details not supplied

Galleries & Collectives

Gallery / Collective: PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera (FR)
Curator / Team: Curators: Sacha Guedj Cohen (FR), Camille Velluet (FR), Boyana Dzhikova

The seven Bulgarian artists approach the figure of the siren through the cultural, historical, and geopolitical context of the Black Sea region. Their works examine female identity, bodily autonomy, sexuality, and the possibility of reclaiming control over one’s own narrative. At the same time, they consider how maritime folklore, national identity, and collective memory are shaped by political tensions and by the fabrication, rewriting, or selective interpretation of history. Together, the works reveal both parallels and differences between the Mediterranean and Black Sea perspectives.