“Why bio and why center? “Bio” means life and life processes, something natural, organic, useful. A center is a point equidistant from all points of a circle or sphere, a relative, approximate middle of a place, focus and/or coordination of activity.
The bio-center in the current exhibition became synonymous with duality. Both a vitally vibrant world and a made up own space. A typical double standard – superimposing images with a common meaning and different aesthetics. On the other hand, through the word-universe “center” I discover the circle, the personification of the Earth and the Sun, of the emergence and the life force. The center of the circle is the landscape theme, closed by an infinite line. The Bio Center has become a laboratory for my research. These are pieces of the everyday, waves of life, imaginary spaces, real shapes, abstract realities or just a sense of forest. And so, the terms bio and center became synonyms, because they indirectly and directly mean life, activity, scope, plot, appearance.”
K. Kalacheva, 2022

Kaliya Kalacheva is an MA graduate from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2011 she won the Prize for Promising Young Artist of the Edmond Demirdjian Foundation. She was nominated for the 2012 MOST Award. In 2017 Kaliya won the International Artist Recognition at the Women in the Arts Awards as part of the Celebrating the Genius of Women Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, USA. In 2021 Kaliya wins the Award of the participants for painting in the National Exhibition – competition for painting and sculpture. 2020 brings her the Prize for an emerging artist at the Burgas Biennale for Contemporary art, Burgas, Bulgaria. Her paintings are part of the collections of the Hugo Voeten Art Centre, Belgium; the Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; the National Art Gallery and the Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria. Kaliya Kalacheva was a resident artist in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2014 and in the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany in 2016.

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