Veronika is a multimedia artist and architect born in Varna, Bulgaria (b. 1994) and currently based in Glasgow, UK. Her practice explores the fields of painting, photography, sculpture and architecture and began after she received a travel scholarship in Florence by the Royal Scottish Academy in 2018.

Veronika is interested in the intrinsic relationship between the spaces we inhabit and our bodies, the ways architecture and ourselves could coalesce through the medium of photography and painting and the tangible and intangible parallels that could be drawn between the morphology of both.

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Veronika’s photography practice often focuses on the ephemeral and ethereal aspects of the human body in movement, nature and light through the use of slow and double exposure, blurring and various other methods of image distortion. Her painting practice reimagines the process of patina accumulation in the form of paintings and fabric installations through an abstract but highly haptic method of representation that aims to reinterpret the surface of the body (or a façade) and its interaction with its surroundings. 

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Her interest in creating a palimpsest of textures aims to embrace and amplify the accidental or deliberate imperfections of the fabric surfaces with its deformations whilst reinforcing the narrational potency that the process of ageing might bring. She sees the patina as a symbol of life which has the potency to create an identity, a voice, an atmosphere. Her strange, elusive 'skins' present a paradoxical combination of forms that are sturdy yet fragile, transitory yet perpetual, solid yet flexible; they are echoes of time.

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Veronika’s recent shows include ‘A Fragile Correspondence’, Scotland + Venice Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture 196th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh (2023) where she won the RSA Gold Medal for Architecture; Danube Contemporary Biennale ‘Shapes and Personality’, Kunsthaus 7B, Sibiu, Romania where she represented Bulgaria (2022); ‘We break: Re-Create’ Co-Interest Tea House and Gallery, Shenzhen, China (2022) and the her solo shows at the Alchemy Experiment (2022) and Stallan-Brand Gallery (2021). In 2022, Veronika also organised and curated a group show ‘Tangible / Intangible’ at The Haberdashery, Glasgow, UK.