NINA RUSEVA
“A JOURNEY”
painting
April 21 – May 5, 2026
This exhibition is inspired by a journey, a personal experience, and the aesthetic influence of one of the oldest cities known to humanity—Rome. For a work of art to come into being, there must be inspiration—an impulse from a new place or something that touches the artist’s soul in such a way that it compels them to enter the studio and hold their breath, forgetting everything and everyone, remaining in dialogue solely with the pictorial space. The subject may be banal, but that doesn’t bother me, as long as it has stirred my consciousness so strongly and emotionally.
The paintings that emerged are truly different from what I usually do. Although I always start from reality, which subsequently transforms into something semi-abstract, here the starting point stops at an earlier stage. The beauty and cultural layers of this city struck me, and I wanted to convey that impact in my canvases as well. I do not know if I succeeded, but I admit that the process in my studio brought me true pleasure.
Nina Ruseva, April 2026
Nina Ruseva belongs to a generation of artists who entered (in 2002 and 2003) a sociocultural context that gradually overcame the tensions arising from shifting artistic models, the fragmentation, and the redistribution of the artistic space…
In this unstable yet immensely promising era, a new wave of artists emerged who, by virtue of their inner commitment and necessity, asserted their right to create pure painting. Amid the emerging opposition and the diffusion of plastic/conceptual art, these artists sought self-expression through personal interpretation and reformulation of ideas rooted in late modernism and plasticism and their specific developments on the Bulgarian art scene.
In this conflicting situation, Nina Ruseva—somewhat detached and free from the tension of confrontations and prevailing trends, with a deeply personal and intimate experience of painting—found her own space for experiencing painting, found her own space for artistic expression. By virtue of her talent and her sensitivity to colour and painterly matter, Nina passionately and purposefully entered the deep, enigmatically closed, psychologically and spiritually saturated dimensions of the plastic space.
The sonority and orchestration of colour, the uninhibited expressive gesture, the boldness and decisiveness of the movement of the plastic masses, the vibrations of the textural structures achieve the monumental, epic power of the natural motif….
Nina Ruseva’s determination to create paintings that focus on the quality of their plastic autonomy is an authentic impulse, a choice and the freedom to be oneself and to communicate with others.
Prof. Stanislav Pamukchiev






















































































































