site.btaMarta Djourina Opens Exhibition Season at Sarieva Gallery with "Fluid Light"

Sofia’s Sarieva Gallery will present the solo exhibition titled “Fluid Light” of Berlin-based Bulgarian artist Marta Djourina, the organizers said on Wednesday. The exhibition will be on from October 1 to November 16, featuring a new series of works, some of which continue the exploration of themes and techniques developed by the artist over the past two years. 

The exhibition will be presented in partnership with AYA Estate Vineyards, a new destination near Melnik, whose publicly accessible collection of contemporary art includes significant works by Marta Djourina.

The exhibition text is written by Berlin-based curator and critic Boris Kostadinov.

Marta Djourina’s series “Fluid Light” explores inspiration, emotion, and delight of contemplation, carried by the harmonies of intensified colour. In her practice, these complex and captivating chromatic compositions are not rigid aesthetic imperatives but unfold as a dynamic artistic and, at times, scientific process, informed and inspired by quantum theory, photonics, and optics. Pulsating, explosive colourations move between abundance and reduction, between orchestrated intensity and sudden monochrome pauses.

Marta Djourina, born in 1991 in Sofia, completed her studies in art history at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Technical University in Berlin and in fine arts as a postgraduate student at the UdK Berlin. Since 2024, she has been Artist in Research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and has been a guest lecturer at University of the Arts Berlin since 2020. Her works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, most recently at MNAHA Luxembourg, Lage Egal Brussels, Haus am Kleistpark (Berlin), Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, ICA-Sofia, Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Contemporary Art, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (Berlin), etc. She has received the EMOP Arendt Prize for Photography (2025), the Presentation Grant for publications of the State of Berlin (2023), the AArtist in Residence of the Federal Foreign Office (2022), the Marianne Brand Prize for Photography (2022), BAZA Award (2021), the Eberhard Roters Scholarship (Preussische Seehandlung Foundation, awarded at the Berlinische Galerie, 2020), and others. In 2024 Djourina published her first extensive monograph with DISTANZ Berlin, with texts by Gregory Volk, Babette Werner, Miriam Jesske and Dr. Sarah Frost, which has been translated into Bulgarian, German, and English.