A native of Gabrovo, Rosina is now based in Sofia but works as a creative producer and photographer in both cities. She’s often a mediator between like-minded people from different fields of art and culture for the realization of multidisciplinary formats. Her motivation as a creative producer is for more and more contemporary artists to be involved in the presentation and interpretation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage.
The main object of Rosina’s photographic research is the event itself – the idea of art as an evolving and changing process that goes through various metamorphoses and stages in search of itself and its completeness. She spends long days, sometimes months or even years, with the characters in her photographs to document the process of creation in its nakedness, genuineness, and unique imperfection. The art of capturing a transitional and unstable world – one of the artists creating new worlds requires eternal patience, an instinct for the right moment, and wide open (blue) eyes.
Since 2020, Rosina has been Homo Faber's ambassador for Sofia – an European network by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship. She is also presented on the platforms for contemporary Bulgarian artists Open Art Files and Bulgaria ON ART.
EDUCATION
2010, Visual Arts: Photography, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
2010, Visual Arts: Photography, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
MASTERCLASSES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPs
2023 – present, Narrative and Documentary Practice, interdisciplinary seminar with Dr. Paul Lowe at VII Academy, online & Sarajevo
2023 – present, Narrative and Documentary Practice, interdisciplinary seminar with Dr. Paul Lowe at VII Academy, online & Sarajevo
2022, Portrait with Kalin Ruichev, Sofia
2016, Documentary Photography with М. Scott Brauer, Sofia Photo Fest, BG Press Photo Foundation, Sofia
2014, Documentary and Street Photography with Edward Keating, Sofia Photo Fest, BG Press Photo Foundation, Sofia
2014, Documentary and Street Photography with Edward Keating, Sofia Photo Fest, BG Press Photo Foundation, Sofia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2022, Crafted by Hand. Photo Diary, digital exhibition
2022, Crafted by Hand. Photo Diary, digital exhibition
2021, Without an Audience, digital exhibition
2015, Parallels open-air photo installation, Central Square, Gabrovo, 1st Prize for Best Cultural Event of the Town of Gabrovo for 2015
2014, Working Title, selected by the Bulgarian Month of Photography, "Rubber" Photography Gallery, Sofia
2015, Parallels open-air photo installation, Central Square, Gabrovo, 1st Prize for Best Cultural Event of the Town of Gabrovo for 2015
2014, Working Title, selected by the Bulgarian Month of Photography, "Rubber" Photography Gallery, Sofia
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019, Construction Crafts of Stara Planina, with Meshtra NGO and Etar Open Air Museum, IEFEM (BAS), Sofia
2015, Points of View, with Petrinel Gotchev and Rin Yamamura (Japan), City Art Gallery, Gabrovo
2019, Construction Crafts of Stara Planina, with Meshtra NGO and Etar Open Air Museum, IEFEM (BAS), Sofia
2015, Points of View, with Petrinel Gotchev and Rin Yamamura (Japan), City Art Gallery, Gabrovo
selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021, BG Press Photo, Еxcellent Performance prize for "In the Studio: Rin Yamamura" / New Bulgarian University, Sofia
2020, Тhe Other Hundred HEALERS, shortlisted / Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
2019, Theater in Twin Cities, shortlisted / Historical and Art Museum, Mytishchi, Russia
2019–2017, 23rd and 24th International Gabrovo Biennial, shortlisted / Museum of Humour, Gabrovo
2016, BG Press Photo, III Prize in Documentary series / Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia
2015, Gaudeamus Igitur…, Antoan Bozhinov and his students / Museum of Humour, Gabrovo
2014, PhotoAcademics, Month of Photography Festival, shortlisted / "Industrialna 11" Gallery, Sofia
2011, From Paint to Pixel / Kirkgate Theater and Arts Center, Cockermouth, England
2008, PhotoAcademics, III Prize in Art Photography / International Fair, Plovdiv
2021, BG Press Photo, Еxcellent Performance prize for "In the Studio: Rin Yamamura" / New Bulgarian University, Sofia
2020, Тhe Other Hundred HEALERS, shortlisted / Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
2019, Theater in Twin Cities, shortlisted / Historical and Art Museum, Mytishchi, Russia
2019–2017, 23rd and 24th International Gabrovo Biennial, shortlisted / Museum of Humour, Gabrovo
2016, BG Press Photo, III Prize in Documentary series / Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia
2015, Gaudeamus Igitur…, Antoan Bozhinov and his students / Museum of Humour, Gabrovo
2014, PhotoAcademics, Month of Photography Festival, shortlisted / "Industrialna 11" Gallery, Sofia
2011, From Paint to Pixel / Kirkgate Theater and Arts Center, Cockermouth, England
2008, PhotoAcademics, III Prize in Art Photography / International Fair, Plovdiv
Portrait of Rosina Pencheva © Kalin Ruichev