Daniela Georgieva is originally from Bulgaria and now lives and works in Düsseldorf. Since her master’s studies in the class of A. R. Penck at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, she has worked in the fields of visual art, music, performance, and dance. She has presented solo exhibitions and solo projects but also participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues such as the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, and the Amerikahaus München. She received the City of Düsseldorf’s advancement award in 2009, a scholarship from the Akademie der Künste Berlin in Olevano, Italy, in 2012. Since 2016 Daniela Georgieva has focused exclusively on dance and performance art and created mostly solo pieces and original choreographies. In addition, Daniela Georgieva has been teaching continuously at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Context Space and Cultural Studies since 2017. She and her dance colleague Hugo Le Brigand have created choreographies and founded the KOROLL association together. Meanwhile she works together with her production manager Wibke Scheler under the association KOROLL.
Grants and residencies
2023
Fond Darstellende Künste, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, color runs, research grant
2022
Research grant „The Order of a Line“, Kunststiftung NRW
2021
tanz.exchange Wissenschaft, Landesbüro Tanz, GEHEN, mediation format, Cologne
2021
Residency „Trauma Bar and Cinema“, Crackle//Knistern with David Kummer, Berlin
2021
Residency „Im_Flieger „ 270206, with Hugo Le Brigand, Vienna
2020
Micro-grant, Frauenkulturbüro, Krefeld
2020
Research Fellowship, Judson Dance Theater, NYC, Kunststiftung NRW
2020
Dance Residency, Judson Dance Theater, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
2019
Summer Dance Residency, P.A.R.T.S, Brussels
2018
Artist Exchange Ein Hod, Israel
2014
Project: scholarship for residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Kunststiftung NRW
2014
CCA Andratx, Artist-in-Residence Program, Islas Baleares, Spain.
2012
Scholarship Akademie der Künste Berlin, Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano, Italy
2009
Grant Fine Arts / Förderpreis of the city of Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Artist Exchange Toulouse, France
2008
Grant of North-Rhine Westfalia for Artist with Children, Dusseldorf
2008
Grant of Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2007
dHCS Grant, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Education
2005
Diploma Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Master student in the class of A.R.Penck
2000
Studied painting and printmaking at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany
1979
Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Teaching
since 2017 I have been teaching continuously at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Context Space and in the fields of Cultural Studies
2023
Fond Darstellende Künste, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, color runs, research grant
2022
Research grant „The Order of a Line“, Kunststiftung NRW
2021
tanz.exchange Wissenschaft, Landesbüro Tanz, GEHEN, mediation format, Cologne
2021
Residency „Trauma Bar and Cinema“, Crackle//Knistern with David Kummer, Berlin
2021
Residency „Im_Flieger „ 270206, with Hugo Le Brigand, Vienna
2020
Micro-grant, Frauenkulturbüro, Krefeld
2020
Research Fellowship, Judson Dance Theater, NYC, Kunststiftung NRW
2020
Dance Residency, Judson Dance Theater, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
2019
Summer Dance Residency, P.A.R.T.S, Brussels
2018
Artist Exchange Ein Hod, Israel
2014
Project: scholarship for residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Kunststiftung NRW
2014
CCA Andratx, Artist-in-Residence Program, Islas Baleares, Spain.
2012
Scholarship Akademie der Künste Berlin, Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano, Italy
2009
Grant Fine Arts / Förderpreis of the city of Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Artist Exchange Toulouse, France
2008
Grant of North-Rhine Westfalia for Artist with Children, Dusseldorf
2008
Grant of Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2007
dHCS Grant, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Education
2005
Diploma Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Master student in the class of A.R.Penck
2000
Studied painting and printmaking at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany
1979
Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Teaching
since 2017 I have been teaching continuously at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Context Space and in the fields of Cultural Studies