https://mariailieva.net Maria Ilieva Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:13:19 +0000 https://mariailieva.net en https://mariailieva.net/Martin-Maria-info Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:13:19 +0000 Maria Ilieva https://mariailieva.net/Martin-Maria-info Martin Tomov &amp; Maria Ilieva artistic duo about; View our CVsAs a collaborative duo, we are fascinated by intersections of visual art, ecology andtheir inherent politicisations.&nbsp; Martin Tomov is an anthropologist by education, and by profession he is part of the team of Greenpeace – Bulgaria. With an interest in fine arts, poetry, acting and theater, Martin undertakes social projects and engaged practices with an eye on various social and environmental issues . He has experience in projects exposing police violence and racism in urban environments, and is the author of research on the cultural history of antidepressants and the impact of climate adaptation policies on marginalized communities in Rotterdam. Today he deals with issues related to the climate crisis, the environment, and the biodiversity of the Black Sea. Maria Ilieva is a multidisciplinary artist, with practice mainly in the field of painting and text. Spending her life between three countries, Maria has been confronted with the reality of immigrants abroad since childhood, with the urgent need to adapt in unfamiliar environments, as well as the boundaries of language. Relying on personal and collective memory, as well as various methods of memorization, she seeks ways to rethink boundaries – both social and self-imposed. projects; “Beyond Istoriya Slavyanobalgarska” with Center for Social Vision, forum Nine Elephants selected stills: <img width="4608" height="2592" width_o="4608" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6380a66fbee881005523fbefbbae21e688ff09beb6eed2e934969760f1d67881/P1010033.JPG" data-mid="234311356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6380a66fbee881005523fbefbbae21e688ff09beb6eed2e934969760f1d67881/P1010033.JPG" /> <img width="4608" height="2592" width_o="4608" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dafe43818032be7c71148de4e0e01db3077624064da0b170f26b92f672884c13/P1010058.JPG" data-mid="234311357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dafe43818032be7c71148de4e0e01db3077624064da0b170f26b92f672884c13/P1010058.JPG" /> <img width="4608" height="2592" 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This infrastructural synechdoche directs the conversation to the ways in which urban space creates meanings, narratives and poetics for itself, without the need for additional interventions – how an urban place becomes a topos for the themes of a transforming world, inequalities and coexistence. The essay “The Anthropocene in Sofia: more-than-human Perspectives and Infrastructural Poetics” is a continuation of our research published on Journal for Social Vision. more info &amp; film: https://devetslona.art/project/project-16/ https://mariailieva.net/Home Thu, 02 Feb 2023 22:34:11 +0000 Maria Ilieva https://mariailieva.net/Home <img width="4608" height="2592" width_o="4608" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d9183fd3de65012325b82b0539b5fd333e9de2e95d9bfd7abd8e4a2252a33ed/P7045435.JPG" data-mid="184462466" border="0" data-marker-id="2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d9183fd3de65012325b82b0539b5fd333e9de2e95d9bfd7abd8e4a2252a33ed/P7045435.JPG" /> https://mariailieva.net/contact Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:58:59 +0000 Maria Ilieva https://mariailieva.net/contact &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; @m.iliv or ilieva.mar01@gmail.com&nbsp; https://mariailieva.net/about Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:14:38 +0000 Maria Ilieva https://mariailieva.net/about contact/ ilieva.mar01@gmail.com @m.iliv +351 925 857 011 download&nbsp;full cv recent exhibitions/ 2026 (Cur)arte #7, Centro de Saúde, Brance, PT Ways of Growing, Galerias da FBAUL, Lisbon, PT shortie?, Kanaal40, Amsterdam, NL 2025 Círculos vivos, open studios at Quinta das Relvas, Branca, PT Reverberations, KOOP, Sofia, BG Sofia Six, Untiled gallery, Sofia, BG Afterglow Frquencies, JPA Studios at London Design Week, UK Oosterdok Tour, by ARCAM, Amsterdam, NL 2024 A Letter from a Friend, Bacio Collective, Bern, CH Slices of Strata, Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, NOR Loose Sediments, for FIG.4 at Octopus Art Space, Sofia, BG Japanese Knotweed Festival,&nbsp; at Mediamatic,&nbsp; Amsterdam, NL Art Start, Credo Bonum Gallery and Goethe Institut, Sofia, BG Fellowship with Center for Social Vision,&nbsp; Sofia, BGBlauwhout, wijkpark De Horst and Podium Noord, The Hague, NL pv <img width="2624" height="3936" width_o="2624" height_o="3936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2babf14321e6c9e9742753c35faefc5f1a7eccce7ea36fb1c2bff41a4d91f21e/maria-i.jpg" data-mid="250474411" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2babf14321e6c9e9742753c35faefc5f1a7eccce7ea36fb1c2bff41a4d91f21e/maria-i.jpg" /> Maria Ilieva (2001) is an artist residing in Lisbon with a practice based in drawing and olfaction. Spending her life between three countries, she was confronted from an early age with the reality of immigrants abroad, the necessary speed for adaptation in unfamiliar environments and the limits of language. This in turn shaped her worldview into a fragmentary familiarity imposed on unknown situations - feeling half-present, and only somewhat understood. Her methods of collecting, categorizing and hoarding, and their associated ways of perceiving, merge with intrigue and observation for matters of memory, processes of remembering and forgetting, dreaming as visual and emotional memory, and the division of our personal mental space. She often uses whimsicalness or absurdity to search for a synthesis in cognition. Using tracing paper and graphite, the delicate materials further merge with their surroundings - posing questions of beginnings and ends of visible and invisible spaces. By collaging and layering these fragments, an overlap is produced, resulting in a taxonomy of the elusive, the transient, the implicit. Each piece overlapping the other, as traces of living and thinking, she seeks ways to make sense of boundaries - both social and self-imposed. She works at Mediamatic’s Aromalab, Europe’s largest open scent library. As scent receptors are positioned closest to the part of the brain storing memory, the olfactory aspect to her works further emanates the intangible, delicate whiffs of information we might not even realise we come in contact with.