I was born in the small city of Kazanlak, Bulgaria in 1984. After graduating from the National High School of Applied Arts and Design, I came to Germany to learn the language and work as an au-pair. I enrolled in the Munich Academy of Arts in 2006 and graduated in 2012 with a degree in Sculpture.Today I’m living and working in Munich with my wife and my child.
When I was a child, I used to draw a lot. As I got older, I wanted to make my drawings more concrete, more tangible. And so I started using ropes, pipes and wires to help me drawing in space and create my three-dimensional objects. Ten years ago I discovered the possibilities electro cables and cable ties presented me and have been working with those rather unconventional materials since then. The cable is the main material, but the cable ties are something extraordinary- the hold the cable together. They are like the white sheet of paper on which a drawing is made – the ancillary material you can’t do without. You can’t create a drawing just by holding the pencil and drawing in the air. And so I need the cable ties to hold my three-dimensional cable lines in place. The form that is created in the process is not only stable, but it’s also flexible. Besides using the cable ties as glue to hold the form I am trying to make, I also use them to show a different face of my work. Sometimes they are seen on the outside of a work as a means to hold the cable tight, and sometimes on the inside as loose ends pointed to the observer. I use them in this context to evoke feelings such as fear, pain or joy in the observer.