DJOANA GUEORGUIEVA

 DJOANA DJONES

Djoana Gueorguieva is a Bulgarian-born, malmo based artist shaped by a condition of ongoing diaspora, negotiating multiple cultural and linguistic inheritances across borders.

Her trans-disciplinary practice—anchored in moving image , perfroamance and installation—functions as a site of inquiry into the instability of identity, the fragmentary nature of memory, and the narrative architectures that shape collective humanity. 

Her work interrogates the notion of a coherent or singular self—treating identity not as essence, but as a mutable constellation of inherited fragments, absences, and reimaginings. Through a material and narrative language rooted in film , performance and sculptural assemblage, Gueorguieva approaches memory as both method and matter: a site of rupture as much as continuity, where time folds, loops, and falters.

                ---Memory is not an archive but a generative field of echoes, omissions, and repetitions.
    ---Narrative, in her practice, becomes both method and material: a porous construct through which meaning is not fixed but continually renegotiated.
                --- A structure disrupted—where voice, gesture, and object carry the weight of what cannot be easily said.

With a sensorial language drawn from ancestral gestures—domestic rituals, and cultural objects, folded sheets, worn carpets, passed-down songs—Gueorguieva creates temporal spaces where the domestic becomes epic, and the intimate becomes collective.
Her performances and installations ask how memory moves through the body, how history is stored in repetition, and how language might stretch into something more porous, more poeticly wety and transmissive.
Through this form of resistance, asking how knowledge, history, and belonging can be carried, not as monuments, but as mutable, living forms.

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Her background in image-making began with studies in International Relations, then shifted toward visual storytelling through an A.A. in Photojournalism from FIT, and a BFA in Photography from Parsons The New School. Originally grounded in still imagery with a documentary eye which professionaly leaning into editorial fashion photography for a breif period, her practice expanded after leaving New York in 2016 to include performance and mixed media, exploring the tension between the private and public self.

During her time at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in the Department of Time Based Media, she delved into film theory, archival practice, and feminist aesthetics—deepening her engagement with the moving image as both theory and material. This inquiry culminated in an MFA in Fine Art (Film) at Malmö Art Academy, where her work began to inhabit spatial, sculptural forms, drawing the viewer deeper into the temporal logic of film and movement.

She is a recent recipent of Konstnarsnamnden : The Swedish Arts Grants Comittee’s 1 Year Artist Work Grant 

contact @
djoanagueorguieva@gmail.com 
djoanadjones@gmail.com
or 
@djoanadjones