Vessy Gekova

Vessy Gekova is a sculptor who recreates her ideas in terms of light, shape and color through the glass medium. Her work ranges from stained glass windows, sculptures, design objects for the interior to glass awards and jewelry. She was born 01.11.1991 in Sofia, Bulgaria

After finishing Spanish high school Miguel de Servantes with majors in Spanish and French studies, she studied Fine Arts at the Metropolitan University of London in 2010, then did a Bachelor in “Glass, ceramics and porcelain” and “Fine art and mural painting” at the New Bulgarian University in 2016. In 2014, she did a 6month intership of glass design at the Czech Academy of Arts in Prague and Zlin, where she mastered the creation of Bohemian crystal objects of blown glass, kiln glass and glass fusing at the University of Tomas Bata.

She finished a Master’s degree in “Glass design and art in architecture” at a new Bulgarian university in 2018.

Vessy Gekova has two solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 50 international exhibitions and consecutive art festivals.

In 2016, she was prized winner in the category Sculpture for her blown glass at the Bulgarika International Art Festival. That same year was invited to install new stained glass windows in the largest cathedral on the Balkan Peninsula “Alexander Nevski”.

She received a prize for the artistic contribution of the Union of Artists at the end of 2016 during her participation in the exhibition “No limits” in The National Palace of Culture and “Three generations of artists” in The National Gallery in Sofia.

In 2017, she won a scholarship program for the St. Constantine and Elena Foundation with the Eden instaalation. This glasswork for the interior architecture is a light installation of blown glass and LED lights that symbolizes the three key moments of the Old Testament parable of the primordial sin and expulsion of Adam and Eve of heaven.

In 2018 Vessy Gekova was invited as guest artist at an exhibition of glass sculptures at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France for the Open Day of the EU.She participates in the organization of an international biennale of glass and an international artist on glass and painting.