About me

Denica Veselinova (Bulgaria, 1983) is a visual artist based in Madrid. Her artistic training began at age 11 with painter Konstantin Genev-Bendi and continued at the prestigious National School of Fine Arts “Ilia Petrov” in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she graduated with special honors, being the top of her class. She holds a degree in Fine Arts and a master’s in “Art, Creation, and Research” from the Complutense University of Madrid.

During her studies, she spent a year in Rome, immersing herself in art and culture at the Academy of Fine Arts thanks to an Erasmus scholarship. She then spent another year at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, with a Séneca scholarship, further expanding her knowledge and artistic skills. Additionally, she received an artistic research grant at the Contemporary Engraving Center of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, culminating in a solo exhibition at the same center.

Among her accolades, she was named “Most Promising Video Artist” at the MADATAC Festival (2010) for her work “Ensoñación Líquida” and won the award at the XXVII edition of Circuitos de Artes Plásticas de la Comunidad de Madrid, which enabled the production of her interactive installation “NotMakeSense” (2016), exhibited at the Sala Arte Joven in Madrid. She later undertook an artistic residency at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, where she produced and exhibited the interactive installation “Mouthsaic” (2017), also awarded in Circuitos.

Currently, she is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, working on her doctoral thesis on artificial intelligence and art. She is also the creative director at the audiovisual production company La Peonza Digital (www.lapeonzadigital.es).

Her work has been exhibited in several shows at (selection):

    • Gallery Set Espai D’Art, Valencia (solo show)
    • DAFT Digital Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
    • Sala Arte Joven, Madrid
    • LABoral – Art and Industrial Creation Center, Gijón
    • CentroCentro, Madrid
    • Foundation Antonio Pérez, Cuenca
    • Fair Estampa – Contemporary Multiple Art, Madrid
    • Casa de América, Madrid
    • La Casa do Brasil, Madrid
    • Spanish-Bulgarian Center, Madrid (solo show)
    • Contemporary Engraving Center, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (solo show)
    • Espazo Xove, Ourense
    • Foundation Antonio Pérez, Cuenca
    • Museum Gonzalez Byass, Cádiz
    • Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University Complutense of Madrid
    • Art Room – Foro de Pozuelo, Madrid
    • Art Room MIRA, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
    • Institute of Culture León
    • Botanical Garden of the University Complutense of Madrid
    • France Embassy, Madrid
    • Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Abrantes Palace, Madrid
    • Cultural Center Azuqueca de Henares, Guadalajara
    • National Library of Spain, Madrid
    • Historical Library, Madrid
    • Art Room Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
    • Gallery Báculo, Madrid
    • Gallery Alfama, Madrid
    • Gallery Movart, Madrid
    • Gallery Tribeca, Madrid
    • Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid
    • Gallery Estampa, Madrid
    • Gallery Alma Mater – University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria (solo show)
    • Gallery Ramazzotti, Kavadarci, Macedonia
    • Gallery Dudin, Dojran, Macedonia
    • Gallery Momir, Ohrid, Macedonia