Iliyana Kancheva © Kalin Minkov
stage designer, visual artist
Stage designer, visual artist – Sofia, Bulgaria
Participant International Forum 2023
Iliyana Kancheva is a stage designer and visual artist, living and working in Sofia. In 2010 she graduated in Stage Design (BA) and in 2014 in Digital Arts (MA) at the National Academy of Art, Sofia. She works in the field of theatre as well as experimenting with photography, video and installation. Between 2013 and 2014, her experimental films were selected for various video art festivals in Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Belgium and Germany. She had four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad. In February 2017, at the art fair JustMAD8 in Madrid, she won the Art Residency Prize at Arts Connection Foundation in Miami, USA. In 2022 she was awarded the Icarus Award of the Union of Artists in Bulgaria for “Best Scenography Project”.