Daniela Georgieva
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Daniela Georgieva (*1979) comes from Bulgaria and now lives and works in Düsseldorf. As an interdisciplinary artist who originally comes from the visual arts and has produced electronic music herself as sound artist Pony, she has focussed exclusively on dance and performance art since 2016. In her artistic work, she thematises diverse levels of relationships that are expressed in physicality and dance and gives the complex connections between people a visible form. In doing so, she questions and deconstructs social norms and power structures, particularly in relation to body images, age, gender roles and queer identities, and creates space for the diversity of dancing bodies and gender-neutral forms of expression.

Most recently, her artistic productions have been shown at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, tanzhaus nrw, brut Wien, as part of the düsseldorf festival and also nationally as art in public space. Georgieva also teaches design in the context of space at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf.





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



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