Biography
Vera Mlechevska is a curator based in Sofia. She holds a PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where she defended her dissertation on artistic practices of institutional critique in Bulgaria. Her professional interests include art during the years of transition, the relationship between ecology and art, and the impact of speculative teachings and beliefs on politics and culture.
Since 2007, Mlechevska has worked as an independent curator, organizing numerous research-based exhibitions, public space interventions, and hybrid events that merge curatorial practice with performance.
In 2019, she contributed to the architecture and content of the openartfiles.bg platform and curated the exhibition Notes and footnotes (featuring over 50 Bulgarian artists) at Kapana Gallery, initiated by the Open Arts Foundation as part of European Capital of Culture – Plovdiv 2019. That same year, the artists Rada Bukova and Lazar Lyutakov, and Mlechevska as curator, represented the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the project How We Live.
In 2021, at the initiative of the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, she curated the exhibition Sparks of Imagination. On the Frequencies of Beuys at the National Art Gallery, Square 500, marking the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth.
From 2022 to 2025, Mlechevska serves as Chair of the Bulgarian section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
She has been working closely with her colleagues from the Art, Affairs and Documents Foundation for several years, co-producing and curating the Sofia Art Project festival.
Since 2023, she has been curating the program of the Octopus Gallery in Sofia.
