BIOGRAPHY POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is a London-based curator, concept designer, and producer. Born in Bulgaria, Polina Angelova holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Design in collaboration with the Design Museum in London, BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textile, and Professional Qualification Artist-Designer from the Accademia D’Arte in Florence. Polina Angelova is the founder and creative director of Hidden Identity Projects, a project with a…
FOUNDER POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is the founder, curator, and creative director of Hidden Identity Projects. Hidden Identity Projects aims to raise awareness of an extraordinary fact kept secret until 1989 and tell a story that explores the parts of our culture that were hidden. Almost 48,000 Jews were saved from being deported to the death camps of the Holocaust. Bulgarian men and women laid down on the railroad tracks risking their own lives. The deportations from Bulgaria never took place. Bulgaria…
CURATOR POLINA ANGELOVA
As a Curator, Polina Angelova focuses on innovation at the intersection of the Arts, Science and Technology. Angelova has collaborated with museums, embassies, contemporary galleries, designers, artists and institutions including the Design Museum in London, BCI, the Bulgarian Embassy in London, SAMCA – The Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of…
PRODUCER POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is producing, directing, and creating a historical recording for posterity, documenting visual history series with Holocaust Survivors, Witnesses of the Holocaust, and Second-generation Survivors. ‘We Are All Made of Stars’ with Lady Zahava Kohn MBE and her daughter Hephzibah Rudofsky is the first documented visual history of the 12 STARS Series.
DIRECTOR POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is the creative director of Hidden Identity Projects and all the creative aspects of the project’s entire productions including creative concepting, photoshoots, conceptual photography, conceptual and graphic design, highly conceptual fine art photography series.
RESEARCHER POLINA ANGELOVA
As an oral history society member, Polina Angelova conducted a series of more than 20 interviews with International Curators, Contemporary Designers, witnesses of the Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors and Second-generation Survivors. Her primary research interest is in the memory of the human heart, the ancestral memory, and the memories passed between generations. In her 12 STARS Visual History Series, Polina explores the intergenerational trauma effects within a…
CONCEPT CREATOR POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is the concept creator, creative director, and author of the ‘Maps to Heaven’ Highly Conceptual Fine Art Photography series with Holocaust Survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE and her daughter Hephzibah Rudofsky. ‘Maps to Heaven’ is a journey both on a physical and divinely scientific level through life’s most significant moments of a Holocaust Survivor. The series explores destiny as a correspondence between the position of the heavenly constellations and the…
AMBASSADOR POLINA ANGELOVA
As a native of Bulgaria, Polina Angelova is also acting as a global cultural ambassador through her work as a curator of Hidden Identity Projects. Polina has developed the concept of a unique museum performance to share the Bulgarian Involvement in the Jewish Holocaust and honor the memory in all the different countries around the world. Polina Angelova has more than 20 years of experience in the field of culture, supporting the cultural exchange between Bulgaria, Israel…
AUTHOR POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is the author of the ‘Maps to Heaven’ Highly Conceptual Fine Art Photography series with Holocaust Survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE and her daughter Hephzibah Rudofsky. Focusing on innovation at the intersection of the Arts, Science, and Technology, Polina invented innovative ways of visual curating by producing new conceptual messages for the world…
DESIGNER POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova’s very successful professional career as a fashion designer started in 2007. Angelova’s contemporary fashion designs were curated at multiple fashion shows and exhibited at the Pret A Porter and Zip Zone Montaigne in Paris, France. In 2009, French Vogue described Angelova’s designs as an aesthetic experience of luxury. In 2012 she started her own fashion brand.
ARTIST POLINA ANGELOVA
In 2015 Polina Angelova moved to Florence, Italy, where she studied Contemporary Art and Gold Leaf Techniques at the Accademia D’Arte Firenze. After she had successfully finished her first collection of gold leaf paintings, she was invited to exhibit her art at Parallax Arts Fair at Chelsea Town Hall in London. Polina Angelova was then approved to appear in the “International Contemporary Masters, “Current Masters” and “Important World Artists”. Lisa le Feuvre…
PAMLAP POLINA ANGELOVA
Polina Angelova is the author of PAMLAP – Polina Angelova Museum Live Art Performance. Polina Angelova Museum Live Art Performance took its first physical form on 7 February 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Gallery of Bulgaria, as part of the opening of the “Do Not Forget” exhibition Polina Angelova curated and initiated the ‘Do Not Forget’ Exhibition to celebrate the 76th Anniversary of the Saving of the Bulgarian Jews…