Texts
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Text for the project A Dream 2020
For her 2011 show at the Gallery in a Drawer 0gms Mariela Gemisheva filled cartridge cases with a mixture of rose oil and gunpowder, thus composing the most murderously passionate perfume ever created in the work Guns and Roses Oil. The...
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Images from the catalogue for the exhibition "In Search of Balkania", 2002, text by Roger Conover
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Conversation with Dr. Plamen Petrov at the exhibition The Dream, Kazanlak 21.10.2023 — 31.3.2024
Back to Dream
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Footage from Manifesta 14
Back to The Great True Rechka Fashion Show
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Catalogue SELF-PORTRAIT
Self-Portrait Edition of FAC Mariela Gemisheva Authors: Iara Bubnova, Demna Dimitrova Graphic design and prepress: Kiril Zlatkov Art editor: Luchezar Boyadjiev Translation: Luchezar Boyadiev, Ekaterina Petrova Printing house: Alliance Print...
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Line up
Back to Old Fashion Fashion Show
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Publication in ARTE magazine, May 2004
ARTE, May 2004 Arte & mercato, Photoshock, p.215 The Shark of the Balkans A mix of grace and strength, pride and cruelty. This is the Bulgarian author Mariela Gemisheva, born in Kazanlak. “Creativity and fashion must combine to make us...
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Footage from the exhibition Several Ways to Win the World, DOZA Gallery, 2023
A Few Ways to Win the World 22 March - 13 April 2023 Doza Gallery Opening 22 March (Wednesday) 18h00 - 21h00 The exhibition looks into the history of contemporary Bulgarian art through its performative self-presentation to the outside world...
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OLD FASHION FASHION 2010 /History of a personal wardrobe/, Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia and Theater Workshop SFUMATO
Institute for Contemporary Art - Sofia and Theatre Workshop SFUMATO present: a project by FAC MARIELA GEMISHEVA OLD FASHION FASHION 2010 /History of a personal wardrobe/ 21.12. 2009, Monday at 7 pm The team of FAC /Fashion Art Center/...
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Installation shots from the House Museum "Dechko Uzunov", City Art Gallery, Kazanlak
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Text by Maria Vassileva for the project Appearance and Being
Structura Gallery and Mariela Gemisheva present: Appearance and Being installation-performance in two hours, 18.10.2024, Friday, 6 pm The project Appearance and Being is conceived as a form of presentation and "consumption" of conceptual...
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Text by Iara Bubnova for my Catalogue
I have known Mariela Gemisheva for a long time and from a close distance – she is very determined and quick, straightforward and inventive, communicative and easy to make friends; and she knows how to get what she wants… A fashion designer...
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Between the Spacesuit and the Angel - the Unusual Travels of Mariela Gemisheva text by Maria Vasileva
Maria Vassileva Between the Spacesuit and the Angel - the Unusual Travels of Mariela Gemisheva Mariela Gemisheva is an artist who does not stay within certain boundaries. Known as a fashion designer, a multiple winner of the Golden Needle...
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Text for the project Interior Accessories of Feminine Gender, Design week 2015, Plovdiv
"Interior Accessories of Feminine Gender" The project is a consequence of the author's experimental fashion actions that remained iconic after the end of the 90s: "My wedding dresses on the roof" from 1998, "Ladies' carpet" from 2006 and...
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Text by Elena Inchingolo and Paola Stropiana for the project Fashion Fire, presented in GAS Art Gallery, Torino
Mariela Gemisheva works as an artist and fashion designer in Sofia, the city where she was born, in a society – that of Bulgaria – in which concepts such as glamour and fashion were alien for many years. And yet Mariela has turned this...
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In the Name of the Rose
In the Name of the Rose 1………………….Roses It is no coincidence that the name of the project refers to the world-famous novel by the Italian writer Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose". The author himself says that the title arose almost by...
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Тext by Iara Bubnova for the project Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter
Finissage of the exhibition Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter Where: Dechko Uzunov House Museum, Kazanlak, 24 Knyaz Mirski St When: March 4 (Saturday), 1:30 p.m. On the eve of March 8, the fashion designer and visual artist Assoc. Dr. Mariela...
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Text for the project Guns & Roses Oil
The work 'GUN AND ROSES OIL' was exhibited for the first time in 2011 in the '0 GMS' gallery, located in a kitchen drawer at the Contemporary art institute, Sofia. The main idea departs from the unique interaction of a tender scent of roses...
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Text for the project My Favorite Boudoir, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv
Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv 2010 Presents: Mariela Gemisheva MY FAVORITE BOUDOIR Mariela Gemisheva is one of the most emblematic figures on contemporary Bulgarian art scene, who has been actively participating in it for the last 15 years....
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Text by Iara Bubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev for the project "Out of Myself"
It’s hard to understand women… It is hard for man as well as for women themselves… It is even harder to understand artists… Thus, to understand a female artist is doubly hard. On top of that, the artist Mariela Gemisheva is a fashion...
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