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BAZA 2024

BAZA 2024
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The BAZA 2024 award winner is Tsvetomira Borisova


The BAZA Award for Contemporary Art winner for 2024 is Tsvetomira Borisova. 

With artwork:

The Perspirationalists, 2024

"The Perspirationalists" works with the topic of heat and sweat, elevating it from banal small talk to an inspiration for composing a manifesto. The work's characters transcend corporeality and willingly surrender to the urban heat, studying it regardless of the physical discomfort it brings. Sweating is not considered shameful or disgust-inducing but a process vital to our existence in the increasingly frequent heat. The Perspirationalists rediscover the qualities of the natural, crystalline fluid that cools our bodies and, through special devices and vessels, proudly preserve it as trophies, pure proof of the innate endurance we are capable of.

Tsvetomira Borisova (b. 1991, Sofia) graduated from the New Bulgarian University with a degree in Ceramics in 2016. She has interned at the Union Of Bulgarian Artists (2016) and Swimming Pool, Sofia (2018); she has participated in educational projects and programs, including New Creative Academy (2021) and School of Kindness (2021). In 2022, she was a resident at Sarieva Gallery and realized her first solo exhibition, "Cool S". Her other solo projects include "A Place to Rest" (2022), Dupka Contemporary – Plovdiv; "Death at the Dinner Table: An Exploration of the Case of Johann Schobert and the Poisonous Mushrooms" (2023), ГАРА – Sofia; "Changes" (2023), Charta Gallery, Sofia. She has participated in group exhibitions, including "Market of Desire" (2021), "Sofia Underground" (2023), "View With a Room" (2023), and а pop-up of POSTA Gallery in Berlin.


Nominated artists 2024: Alexander Lazarkov, Diana Bunkin, Kristina Nenova, Nevelin Ivanov, rawlab (Radina Yotova and Roslana Yotova), Tsvetomira Borisova.

Members of the jury 2024: Kalina Tsoneva, Aliza Edelman, Vasil Vladimirov, Maria Nalbantova and Dimitar Bojkov.

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