Screen.dance – Scotland’s first and only festival of dance film – was initiated and co-curated by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova and Peter Royston in 2016 and held at Threshold arspace, Perth until 2019 in association with Goat Media and Horsecross Arts. Explore Screen.dance 2019 (formerly known as Perth Screen Dance) by scrolling below In June 2020, Screen.dance migrated to Edinburgh under the curatorship of Simon … Continue reading Screen.dance
An outdoor poetry sculpture trail of six brightly coloured park benches in the grounds of St. John’s Church set in the foothills of Edinburgh Castle rock, at the west end of the Princes Street Gardens with spectacular views to Edinburgh Castle, transforming this quiet urban oasis into an outdoor space for reading, resting and meeting family and friends. The sculptures are designed in the shape … Continue reading Hidden Letters
Once upon a time an awful pandemic gripped the land of thistles. It also spread over the land of sunflowers. Artists-mothers started painting dreamscapes. Their young children were sent on unnecessary quests in the name of home schooling. Lockdowned in this contemporary fairy tale, where is home? Is home the land of sunflowers where you were born in or the land of thistles you have … Continue reading Diana Savova
We Refuse to be Scapegoats was the first UK solo exhibition in the last ten years by the established British artist of mixed Eastern European Jewish heritage Pam Skelton. The exhibition featured new moving image works by Skelton with a soundscape by Wayne Brown. It represented the artist’s findings from a long-term research deriving from her own family history, and in particular, the histories, memories … Continue reading We Refuse to be Scapegoats
Associate curator at the Friends of Pskov Association since 2017 – supporting and developing the twinning of Perth, Scotland with Pskov, Russia through people to people diplomacy and a series of Perth, Pskov, Tartu: Twin Cities curatorial projects, including ZOOM IN ON…– six monthly gatherings over Zoom starting on 15 March 2021 aiming to contruct a contemporary art bridge over the twin cities rivers, marking … Continue reading Friends of Pskov
A founding member of CONJUNCTION – a public art curatorial collective. As a globally dispersed collective of 25 mid-career and established curators, artists, designers, educators, and public arts practitioners who first met in January 2020 while attending the year-long professional development course Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Public Art at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. We are a fluid collective based on a fluid work dynamic … Continue reading Conjunction
In 2016 I founded and co-curated 3G: 3 Generations of Women Artists Perform. Over the next five years it became an annual exploration of feminism and performance art, marking International Women’s Day as part of Perth and Kinross Women’s Festival. Held annually between 2016 and 2020 at Threshold artspace, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, 3G featured artists’ talks and scholars’ presentations alongside live and screen … Continue reading 3G
Founding member of Found in Translation R Club established in 2015 and held monthly at Central Library Edinburgh with 50 books in translation read, talked and written about over the first 5 years of which 27 by male and 23 by female authors. Through 2015-20 we have read books in the following languages in translation: Spanish (1), Spanish–Argentina(1), Norwegian(1), Italian(1), Turkish(1), Korean(2), Chinese(1), Japanese(2), Dutch(3), … Continue reading Found in Translation
The first solo exhibition by Perthshire performance poet Jim Mackintosh curated by Iliyana Nedkova at Threshold artspace, Perth Concert Hall, 17 December 2018 – 14 March 2019. This show paired his words with works from Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art. 15 poems read alongside 15 works from the collection by the Augenblick Collective, Henna Asikainen, Roswitha Chester, Madelon Hooykaas, Simon Fildes, Silvana Macedo, Ewelina … Continue reading Flipstones
As part of my long-standing interest in the creative practice of female artists, writers, film- and theatre-makers, I have been exploring the works of the Ukrainian Bulgarian artist Alla Georgieva (Born 1957 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria) since the early 2000s through curating of solo or group exhibitions, writing and publishing critical writing texts. Here are some of the highlights of … Continue reading Alla Georgieva
ILIYANA NEDKOVA 