ARTIST BIO
Sophia Bulgakova (born 1997, Odesa, Ukraine) is an ArtScientist interdisciplinary artist and activist currently based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Sophia is working on the intersection between art, technology, and society, focusing on the relationship between light, 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 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), 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
2015–2019 Bachelor of Arts, ArtScience Interfaculty
Royal Academy of the Arts & Royal Conservatory, The Hague (NL)
2014–2015 CCW Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Photography and Time-Based Media
University of the Arts, London (UK)
INTERNSHIPS
2019–2020 Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Public Outreach, The Hague (NL)
2017–2018 Studio Zoro Feigl, Amsterdam and De Elektriciteitsfabriek, The Hague (NL)
GRANTS
2020 Grant Programme for Talent Development
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (NL)
RESIDENCIES
2021 iMAL Residency, iMAL, Brussels (BE)
2020 Landscape As a Monument, Izolyatsia Platform For Culture Initiatives, Kyiv (UA)
2019 Summer Sessions Network for Talent Development, Co-production V2_ Lab for Unstable Media & Metamedia Associations, Pula (HR)
SELECTED EVENTS
2021 Creating Analogue Virtual Realities worXshop, XRT, Broei, Ghent (BE)
2021 YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION eXhibition, XRT, Broei, Ghent (BE)
2021 The New Current 2021, Spaanse Kubus, Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Interactive Performativity Beyond Reality talk, Lyrical Gravity, Kyiv (UA) / Berlin (DE) / Online
2020 Window <3 Lab 1.0, Trixie, The Hague (NL)
2020 City As Viewshed, Ningbo City Exhibition Hall, Ningbo (CN)
2020 Locating ArtScience #3, Odessa Fine Art Museum, Odessa (UA)
2020 Haagse School x Haagse Nieuwe, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss (NL)
2020 Interstitial Spaces, CTM Festival, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2020 Xmas Retrograde, Galerija ALUZ, Zrenjanin (RS)
2019 Homo Sensorium, Dutch Design Week 2019, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
2019 Locating ArtScience #2, Today’s Art Festival, The Hague (NL)
2019 UNEXPECTED SMELLS, De Elektriciteitsfabriek, The Hague (NL)
2018 RAAR, Rotterdam Art And Radio — 36, Operator, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 Sonic Sprawl, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
2018 Experimental Scent Summit (V.2), The Swedenborg Society, London (UK)
2018 BORDERLINES#3, PIP, The Hague (NL)
2018 SENSING THE PLACE at Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Odorama: Game Edition, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 HUBS Immersive Festival, De Nieuwe Regentes Theatre, The Hague (NL)
2017 No Patent Pending No. 27, iii, The Hague (NL)
2017 GET LOST — Where do we go from here, PIP, The Hague (NL)
2017 This One Movement, ZAAL3, The Hague (NL)
2016 Mortise & Tenon Sessions No2, Studio Loos, The Hague (NL)
2016 “Director’s Cut” Art-OIFF, INVOGUE Gallery, Odessa (UA)
2016 A Delta gyermekei, MÜSZI Közért, Budapest (HU)
2016 Transmediale / Conversationpiece 2016, HKW, Berlin (DE)
2016 Spektrum, Berlin (DE)
2014 FABRIKA art festival, MK Tykva, Kyiv (UA)
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CONTACT
+31 (0)6 25 51 73 06
sophia [dot] bulgakova [at] gmail [dot] com
@sophiabulgakova