BAZA 2025

The nominated artists for BAZA 2025 are:

Aaron Roth, whose practice engages with questions of desire, myths of nationalism and history, as well as economics and corruption;

Bilyana Tokmakchieva, whose work explores socio-political themes through painting, sculpture, video art, performance, and installation art;

Martian Tabakov, who creates interactive sound sculptures and site-specific sculptural installations;

Natalia Jordanova, whose artistic practice is a projection – a subjective synthesis and material proposition of what defines the present moment;

Nevelin Ivanov, who experiments in the fields of drawing and conceptual fashion;
Slava George, whose work examines topics related to psychology, anthropology, ethnography, human rights, collective rituals, and alchemy;

Todor Rabadzhyski, whose practice explores transformation, materiality, and the symbolic weight of power structures, merging traditional craft with conceptual inquiry.

Members of the BAZA jury are: Barbara Stehle (art critic, curator and professor, New York), Boyana Dzhikova (curator and gallerist), Kalina Tsoneva (cultural theorist and critic), Luchezar Boyadjiev (artist), and Teodora Kotseva (curator and gallerist).