Deyana Stareva is an exhibition designer and visual artist based between Stuttgart and Sofia.
She applies artistic research methodologies in order to explore issues related to the equilibrium between human and nature. She is employing different media and approaches such as drawing, installation, pottery and embroidery.
Education
2009-2015 Bachelor and Master in Architecture at the Free University of Brussels - La Cambre - Horta, Brussels, Belgium
2013-2014 Erasmus at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ferrara, Italy
2010-2013 Comics and Illustration at the Academy of Fine arts Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Brussels, Belgium
Awards and fellowships
2025 Ceramic fellowship, Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, Germany
2024 Textile and fabric fellowship, Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Group exhibition Awakening between the lines, National Gallery Sofia - Square 500
2021 The Gala of Curiosities, ECHO II: Traditions in transition, Exhibition, Prishtina, Kosovo
2021 Art residency & Exhibition, Spetses, Greece, in the framework of Creative Europe project 2021 Art and ecology, Installation in Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 Print making fellowship, Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 Un-common river, Collaboration with One Architecture week / International festival for contemporary architecture and urban environment, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2014 Realistic model, Photography fellowship, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Banal architecture, exhibition of student works for the University of Brussels, ULB-La Cambre-Horta, Belgium
2014 Primitive photography, with Osoba Hrvoje Spudic, MEDS, International meeting of
Design and Architecture students, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Urban frameworks, water frameworks, Urban workshop in Chengdu, China
2013 Urban Lanscape, from the ‘first urbanization’ to the ‘third landscape’, Urban workshop in Florence, Italy
2013 VIAPAC, APARE International campus, in collaboration with the cultural association Marcovaldo, Caraglio, Italy
2012 Close the garden, exhibition of student works for the University of Brussels, ULB-La Cambre-Horta, Belgium