Ana Kostova
Ana Kostova (*1995, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) studied Fine Arts at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel from 2021–2023, and previously Painting at the National Academy of Art in Sofia from 2018–2020. Her work has received several awards, including the DAAD Award in 2023, nominations for the André Evard Award in 2024 and the VHV Award in 2025, as well as the Pavillon Scholarship from Kulturwerk Schleswig-Holstein.
Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, including Contours of Memory at Prima Kunst Kiel in 2025 and her largest solo exhibition with Galerie Kaufmann Hamburg. Other venues have taken her to Berlin, Hamburg, Sofia, Kiel, Náchod, Bremen and Neumünster, as well as to the Positions Art Fair, the Salon der Gegenwart, the Sofia Art Fair and the exhibition for the André Evard Award.
Work
career
2021 – 2023
MA in Fine Arts at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel with Prof. Antje Majewski
2018 – 2020
MA in Fine Arts at the National Academy of Art Sofia, BG
2014 – 2018
BA in Fine Arts / Theory and Practice of Art Education at the National Academy of Art Sofia, Bulgaria
solo exhibition
2025
The Space of Color, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg
Contours of Memory, Prima Kunst, Kiel
2023
Traces of Something Recognizable, Galerie23, Hamburg
From One Room to Another, Kunstraum B, Kiel
Exhibitions
2025
Space and Spacelessness, University Gallery HBK Braunschweig
Reduction x Repetition x Reflection, Raumlinksrechts, Hamburg
2024
7th International André Evard Award for Concrete-Constructive Art, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl
EINhaus, Youth Education Center, Barmstedt
Sofia Art Fair, Sofia, BG
12.5 sqm : 5, Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg
NEU?JA!, GalerieB, Hamburg
Everyone but Casper!, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2023
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg
Master of Fine Arts, sp ce Galerie, Kiel
Academy Positions, Positions Art Fair, Berlin
Konglomerat, Museum Night Kiel, Alte Mu
zusammen-tragen, atelierumraum, Kiel
Walking Straight on a Crooked Path, GVUN, Nachod, CZE
Let’s take a look at the side, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, BG (Duo)
2022
What about painting?!, sp ce Galerie, Kiel
Game Trails, Gallery Cube+, Kiel
ausbruch, xpon-art Galerie, Hamburg
Make up Wake up, Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster
Something To Declare, Nothing To Declare, off-space, Bremen
2021
Import-Export, Prima Kunst, Kiel
2020
Rosa-Grün, Anscharpark, Kiel
Prizes and Scholarships
2025
Nomination, VHV - Artwork of the Year, Hanover
2024
Nomination, 7th André Evard Award for Concrete-Constructive Art, Riegel a.K.
Pavilion Scholarship from Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg
2023
DAAD Award
publications
2025
Ana Kostova: The Space of Color, Hirmer Verlag, Editor: Galerie Kaufmann
2024
7th International André Evard Award for Concrete-Constructive Art, p. 54, Messmer Foundation, Riegel a. K.
Sofia Art Fair Catalogue, p. 52, Sofia Breathes Foundation, ISBN: 978-619-04-0314-2, Sofia (BG)
2023
salondergegenwart 2023, pp. 54–55, salondergegenwart GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-945772-92-8, Hamburg
2020
European Masters Salon Painting, pp. 128–131, KoMASK, Antwerp, Belgium
