LEDA STARCHEVA (1960)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Leda Starcheva

Leda Starcheva (b. 1960) graduated from the National Academy of Art in 1984 and has a degree in Sculpture. Since then, she has been participating in group exhibitions of Bulgarian art in Bulgaria, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. In 1996 she was granted a residence scholarship at Cite Internationale Des arts in Paris, and that same year she won the annual award of the Club “Between Colleagues” in the name of Dimitar Arnaoudov. In 2004 she won an award of the annual exhibition of department “Sculpture”of the Union of Bulgarian artists. In recent years she has presented solo exhibitions at Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia in 2012, Gallery Sofia-Press in 2013, The Mission Gallery, Sofia in 2015, Gallery U P.A.R.K. Plovdiv in 2019, Arosita Gallery, Sofia in 2019. She participated in the Spring Festival of Contemporary Art in 2016 in Blagoevgrad. Her works can be seen in collections of the National Gallery in Sofia, the city galleries of Silistra and Stara Zagora, the collection of the University of Connecticut and in the collection of Darik Radio. She lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Leda Starcheva - Selected works 1

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Leda Starcheva - Selected works 2

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Leda Starcheva - Selected works 3

The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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LEDA STARCHEVA (1960)

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