Biography
Studio Komplekt are Adriana Andreeva and Boyana Gyaurova. They have over 10 years of professional experience in the fields of creative consulting, cultural management and editorial work, focusing on design and visual culture. In 2008 they met in One Magazine. They were part of the curatorial and leadership team of One Architecture Week and One Design Week. Boyana Gyaurova is Editor-in-Chief of the book Bulgarian New Wave (2012), and Adriana Andreeva works on building the cultural strategy of the Municipality of Gabrovo in the design area (2013).
Their curatorial projects have taken part at Milano Design Week/iSaloni/Ventura Lambrate, Prague Designblok, One Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Helsinki World Design Capital, Skopje Design Week, Tirana Design Weeks и Budapest Design Week.
Studio Komplekt curates exhibitions and pop-up shows, produces events, and writes editorial content for various media. It provides consulting services and works for forward-thinking clients such as ABSOLUT,B2N 3D Printing, Economedia, Finlandia Vodka, HARMONICA clean foods, IKEA, MINI, One Design Week, Sklada, Sofia Tech Park, and for agencies like Next-DC, Ogilvy, Noble Graphics and other.
A natural continuation of their many years of experience as producers and selectors in the area of design and contemporary visual culture is the dynamic online archive Melba, which presents the work of selected Bulgarian designers.
In 2018 successfully was realized the first edition of the Melba Festival – a part of Melba Design Initiatives, which accent was the International Design Symposium, presenting leading creative professionals of contemporary European design.
MELBA is their attempt to mix meaningfully various good examples from the design that are happening in the world and in our country. In the first edition of the Melba Design Festival in Sofia, they succeeded in attracting local and international characters and selected successful, positive and rewarding examples of social, graphic, product, fashion design, illustration, jewelry, branding, media and others.
Studi Komplekt is predominantly engaged with the program of the design center in Sofia – Generator, which offers a rich variety of content, services and new approaches to culture and creativity in society. They are also members of the local Creative Mornings Sofia team, part of the series of global events.