Gery Georgieva (b. 1986 Varna, Bulgaria) is аn 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 subjectivity as a site of mimicry and transformation, situated between the legacies of post-socialist memory and Western art discourse. Through improvisation and self-staging, she examines how cultural narratives are configured, interrogating media conventions, commercial gender roles and where they collide with ideas of nationhood.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024Sirena Spidera: Her Eternal Return, Stockholm Metro (Konstvaxlingar), Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2024Venus, STAMPEDE!! Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
  • 2024Venus II, Peacock Yard, London
  • 2019Mending a Broken World, with Lenke Rothman, Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping, Sweden
  • 2017Polythene Queen, Hunter/Whitfield, London, UK
  • 2017The Blushing Valley, Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2016Original Cheese, AND/OR, London, UK
  • 2015Solo Romantika, Res. at Enclave, London, UK

Performances

  • 2019Na Cheshmata (At The Source), Palais de Tokyo, Do Disturb Festival, Paris, France
  • 2018Na Cheshmata (At The Source), Block Universe / Oval Space, London, UK

Screenings

  • 2023‘Thrill Me’ — Kunsthalle Lucerne and Stadt Kino Basel, Kunsthalle Lucerne / Stadt Kino Basel, Switzerland
  • 2019Gestures of De-Monumentality, Alyosha and the Rose Queen, Lucky Cinema , Plovdiv
  • 2019Notre Âme, Notre Dame, Notre Terre, MECA , Bordeaux
  • 2019Roses.Rocks, Covid screening, online
  • 2019Unbothered + Moisturised, Eaton Hotel, New York
  • 2019Womens‘ Strike, Arsenic Cinema, Lausanne
  • 2018Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
  • 2018Videobox, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
  • 2018Videoclub Selected 8 , Whitechapel Gallery, CCA Galsgow, Spike Island, Exeter Phoenix and more, UK tour
  • 2016D'EST Prologue Berlin, Berlin
  • 2016Frieze Film Screening, MOCA , Cleveland Ohio
  • 2015Balkan Idol, Frieze Film & Random Acts, Broadcast on Channel 4

Group Exhibitions

  • 2026The Federation of Minor Practices, The Bulgarian Pavilion at the 61st Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2025Are You a Modern Girl? Rituals and Nowness, Punta Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2025Odyssea, Le Chant des Sirènes, Spaggia Libera & Punta Evrov, Buna, Varna
  • 2024STAMPEDE!! Royal Academy Schools Relaunch, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
  • 2022Menstrualities: A New Vision for the Gynecene Era, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany
  • 2018Alter Heroes Coalition, Mimosa House, London
  • 2018Mademoiselle, CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France
  • 2017ripe, Kingsgate Projects, London, UK
  • 2016RA Schools Degree Show, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
  • 2014Apophenia, Islington Mill, Salford, UK
  • 2014Premiums, Royal Academy, Royal Academy, London, UK

Education

  • 2016Royal Academy Schools London, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK(Post Graduate Diploma, Fine Art)
  • 2009Goldsmiths College London, Goldsmiths College, London, UK(BA Fine Art & History of Art)

Residencies

  • 2022POTOPOPOTOP, Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2018Back Lane West Residency, Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall
  • 2015Tropical Lab Residency, Tropical Lab, Singapore
  • 2014Islington Mill Residency, Islington Mill, Salford, UK

Awards

  • 2017Gaudenz B. Ruf Award
  • 2016Machin Prize
  • 2016SPACE Patrons & Friends Studio Bursary
  • 2009Goldsmiths University Wardens Scholarship

Publications

  • 2024Mercurius Anthology, Mercurius(Contributing Artist)

© 2026 Gery Georgieva