CURATING EXHIBITIONS
As a Contemporary Art and Design Curator, Polina Angelova focuses on innovation at the intersection of the Arts, Science and Technology. She 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’s multidisciplinary approach to design brings totally different perspectives to her practice and moves beyond the simple curation of everyday Aesthetics and Design. Being the concept creator, author and creative director of the ‘Maps to Heaven’ highly conceptual fine art photography series, Polina Angelova invented innovative ways of visual curating by producing new conceptual messages for the world. For the first time, a curator records the history and the past not just with written words and painted pictures, but by creating a magical and imaginary world giving birth to a new curatorial language and above all making possible a new kind of visual communication.
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 Bulgaria, Collect Design Fair, The London Design Festival, Clerkenwell Design Week, Hull Studio, Gallery FUMI, Pret A Porter in Paris, LAPADA – The Association of Art and Antique Dealers.
Polina is the Curator of the ‘A Sky of Stars’ exhibition at BCI and the Bulgarian Embassy in London. She is one of the Co-Curators of the ‘Re-considering Canon’ exhibition at the Design Museum during the London Design Festival 2018 and the Curator of the ‘Do Not Forget’ exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Gallery of Bulgaria. She has worked on developing curatorial projects alongside Justin McGuirk, Tom Wilson, and Donna Loveday.
Polina Angelova is the curator of ‘Hidden Identity Projects’, a project with a mission of raising awareness of an extraordinary fact kept secret until 1989 – the Saving of almost 48,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust. In support of the project’s mission, Angelova 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 through means of curation, cultural diplomacy and international relations.
