Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva (b. 1977) is an art critic and curator based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. She is a committed art critic for Kultura Weekly and an independent consultant on contemporary art for several Bulgarian weekly and monthly publications. From 2003 to 2013 Kuyumdzhieva worked as chief curator of the Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia. Since 2014 she has been working as a senior expert at the Cultural deparment of Plovdiv Municipality. Kuyumdzhieva is a co-founder of the Art Affairs and Documents Foundation (A.A.D.F.) and a member of ICI.
Bulgaria
At the End of The Longest Decade
By Svetlana KuyumdzhievaBulgarian art has been going through a retrospective period in the past few years, a phase that comes across as overly nostalgic when compared with the 1990s. And indeed it looks as though the 90s are still here.
Bulgaria
Luchezar Boyadjiev interviews Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
I think judgment is what makes the difference between an art critic and an art writer. And by the same token there are people who would say that Im the only art critic in Bulgaria.
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