Biography
Rossen Uzunov was born in 1970 in Pernik, Bulgaria. In 1996 he graduated in Medicine in Sofia Medical University and immediately after that he started working in the pharmaceutical business. From 2009 to 2016, he has been a general Manager of a large American pharmaceutical company for Bulgaria and the region, and between 2016 and 2019 he was the Medical Head at the company's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. At the end of 2019, he founded the Little Bird Place Gallery (Sofia), and in 2020 he started the Little Bird Artist Residency in the village of Leshten. The gallery and the residency are unique with their specific thematic focus – modern and contemporary art dedicated to nature, the biological diversity and ecology. The organization's mission is to promote contemporary and modern art and to support the development and presentation of young Bulgarian artists. From 2019 to today, there are over 40 successfully implemented projects in the gallery and the residency.