ARTIST BIO
Sophia Bulgakova (born 1997, Odesa, Ukraine) is an ArtScientist, interdisciplinary artist and activist currently based in the Netherlands. She works with art, technology, and contemporary social structures, focusing on the relationship between cultural identities, perception, and imagination. Through various sensorial inputs in her installations and performances, she engages viewers, impacting their ways of perceiving reality and exploring new possibilities beyond it.
Sophia’s practice explores how technological advancements intersect with cultural traditions and social issues. Her works incorporate cutting-edge innovations such as various projection techniques, interactive soundscapes, AI and XR technologies to create embodied immersive experiences that challenge conventional narratives. Sophia Bulgakova studied sculpture in Kyiv and then got a foundation diploma in Photography and Time-Based Media at the University of the Arts London in the UK.
After that, she graduated from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of the Art and Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands. Her works were exhibited at CTM Festival (DE), FIBER Festival (NL), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (DE), Sonic Acts Festival (NL), Baltan Laboratories (NL), Mediamatic (NL), and Ningbo City Exhibition Hall (CN), among other places.
CONTACT
+31 (0)6 25 51 73 06
sophia [dot] bulgakova [at] gmail [dot] com
@sophiabulgakova
EDUCATION
2014- 2015 CCW Foundation Diploma in Art and Design UAL Photography and Time-Based Media London (UK)
2015 - 2019 ArtScience Interfaculty, BFA Royal Academy of the Arts, The Hague Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Hague (NL)
TEACHING
2022 - 2025 Photography Filmmaking & The Digital, St Joost Academy, Guest lecturer & Digital Skills teacher, Breda (NL)
2023 ArtCode Moduleweek 2023, Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Guest lecturer, Tilburg (NL)
2022 Interactive Media Design (IMD) department, KABK, Guest lecturer, The Hague (NL)
2022 Art Bootcamp, Art-S-Cool, Guest lecturer, The Hague (NL)
GRANTS/AWARDS
2025 Finalist Lumen Prize 2025, Experiential Category, (INT)
2025 Honorary Mention, State of the ART(its) Award, Ars Electronica (AT)
2024 Special Jury Mention for OTHERWORLDS, Art*VR Festival (CZ)
2024 Digital Culture Starter Fund, Stimuleringsfonds (NL)
2023 - 2024 “My First Application” Grant, AFK (NL)
2023 Artist Project Grant, Mondriaanfonds (NL)
2022 - 2024 Experiment Grant, Stimuleringsfonds (NL)
2022 NORMA Startersfonds (NL)
2022 - 2024 Immerse/Interact Development & Realisation Grant Scheme, Stimuleringsfonds & Film Fonds (NL)
2020 - 2021 Grant Programme for Talent Development, Stimuleringsfonds (NL)
RESIDENCIES
2025 NXT x Eerste Communie AV Residency, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Nexus Program, TETEM, Enschede (NL)
2023 Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency, Berlin (DE)
2023 Musicmakers Hacklab 2023, CTM Festival, Berlin (DE)
2021 - 2022 iMAL Residency, iMAL, Brussels (BE)
2020 Landscape As a Monument residency from Izolyatsia Platform For Culture Initiatives, Kyiv (UA) & Online
2019 Summer Sessions Network for Talent Development, Co-production of V2_ Lab for Unstable Media and Metamedia Associations, Pula (HR)
TALKS/SPECIAL EVENTS
2025 KINETIC MASS lab co-host, Sonic Territories Festival, Vienna (AT)
2024 Musicmakers Hacklab 2024 co-host, CTM Festival, Berlin (DE)
2024 Vorspiel x D59B, Unbreak My Radio, Berlin (DE)
2024 Metaphysical Tastings: Dinner on the Holodeck, De Sering, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 The Future of Living 2023 conference, iMAL, Brussels (BE)
2023 Memories, Varenyky and Dumplings, Wasteland Festival, The Hague (NL)
2023 Ukraine Resistance Radio (URR), Cashmere Radio, Berlin (DE)
2023 Ukraine Resistance Radio (URR), Echobox Radio, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 Audiovisual Art Assembly, FIBER Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 Hybrid Wine and Art Tasting, IMPAKT, Utrecht (NL) & Online
2023 Ukraine Resistance Radio (URR), Radio Vilnius, Vilnius (LT)
2022 TIMEZONE podcast, episode 14, Norientsound, Berlin (DE)
2022 WE ARE OCEAN workshops, Uihuizen & Schiermonnikoog (NL)
2022 Europe Day 2022, De Balie, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 WE ARE OCEAN Global Program at 59th Venice Biennial, Venice (IT)
2022 How To Set Your Signs On Fire, W139, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 A Crash Course in Media Art: Media Art X Sculpture, V2_, Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Creating Analogue Virtual Realities worXshop, XRT, Broei, Ghent (BE)
2021 Interactive Performativity Beyond Reality talk, Lyrical Gravity, Kyiv(UA)/Berlin(DE)
2018 Experimental Scent Summit (V.2), The Swedenborg Society, London (UK)
2018 Odorama: Game Edition, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Спомини[Spomyny], WUK & Sonic Territories Festival, Vienna (AT)
2025 we all woke up today from some kind of explosions, Amare, Den Haag (NL)
2024 we all woke up today from some kind of explosions, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2023 SUBLIME PARADIGM, De School, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 OTHERWORLDS at FIBER Festival 2022, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION, Broei, Ghent (BE)
2018 Sonic Sprawl, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ars Electronica Festival 2025, Post City, Linz (AT)
2025 SXSW London 2025, Rich Mix, London (UK)
2025 TEC ART, Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam (NL)
2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Art Directions, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 Art*VR Festival, International VR Competition, Prague (CZ)
2024 Algorithmic Monuments, ACUD Gallerie, Berlin (DE)
2024 Proximity Music, Rewire Festival, WEST, The Hague (NL)
2024 Highlight Festival 2024, Delft (NL)
2022 The Overkill Festival 2022, Sickhouse, Enschede (NL)
2022 Ars Electronica Festival 2022, JKU University, Linz (AT)
2022 ITGWO Festival 2022, Vlieland (NL)
2022 Imergente Festival, Casa70Lisboa, Lisbon (PT)
2021 The New Current 2021, Spaanse Kubus, Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Window <3 Lab 1.0, Trixie, The Hague (NL)
2020 City As Viewshed, Ningbo City Exhibition Hall, Ningbo (CN)
2020 Haagse School x Haagse Nieuwe, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss (NL)
2020 Interstitial Spaces, CTM Festival, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2019 Homo Sensorium, Dutch Design Week 2019, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
2019 Locating ArtScience #2, Today’s Art Festival, The Hague (NL)
2019 Media Mediterranea 21 Festival, Association of Technical Culture, Pula (HR)
2019 UNEXPECTED SMELLS, De Elektriciteitsfabriek, The Hague (NL)
2018 SENSING THE PLACE at Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 HUBS Immersive Festival, De Nieuwe Regentes Theatre, The Hague (NL)
2016 “Director’s Cut” Art-OIFF, INVOGUE Gallery, Odesa (UA)
PERFORMANCES
2025 Visual Frequencies at ADE 2025, NXT Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 CIVA Festival, Belvedere21, Vienna (AT)
2025 Hildegarde with Helinali & Adriana-Yaroslava Saienko, BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
2024 Media Arts Festival Arnhem (MAFA), Arnhem (NL)
2023 Unstable Irritations, Panke, Berlin (DE)
2023 Open Field, STRP Festival, Eindhoven (NL)
2023 Hacklab, CTM Festival, Berlin (DE)
2022 Evidence in Motion, iii, The Hague (NL)
2022 ITGWO Festival 2022, Vlieland (NL)
2021 Threads: Winter Solstice, Post-húsið, Rekjavik (IS)
2021 Klankvorm AV explorations, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Xmas Retrograde, Galerija ALUZ, Zrenjanin (RS)
2018 RAAR, Rotterdam Art And Radio - 36, Operator, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 No Patent Pending No27, iii, The Hague (NL)
2016 Transmediale / Conversationpiece 2016, HKW, Berlin (DE)