{"id":22927,"date":"2026-11-09T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22927"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:36:54","slug":"krasimira-butseva","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/profile\/krasimira-butseva\/","title":{"rendered":"Krasimira Butseva"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Krasimira Butseva is an artist-researcher whose practice examines the politics of memory, political violence, and the contested histories of socialist and post-socialist Bulgaria. She works across photography, moving image, sound and multimedia installation, while she draws on state and vernacular archives, oral histories and sites of historical violence to explore the dynamics of remembering and forgetting, and the ways memory is carried, cared for and transmitted across generations. Her work navigates the intersections of artistic and scholarly research, examining the absences through which history is constructed and remembered.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Butseva represented Bulgaria at the 60th Venice Art Biennale with <em>The Neighbours<\/em>, developed in collaboration with Lilia Topouzova and Julian Chehirian. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art &#8211; Sofia, the National Gallery in Sofia, Galerija \u0160kuc in Ljubljana, Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv, District Six Museum in Cape Town, and ARTGET Gallery in Belgrade. She is the recipient of the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art (2022) and has held fellowships and residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2021), Residency Unlimited, New York (2024), and the Centre for Culture and the Mind, University of Copenhagen (2026).<\/p>\n<p>Alongside her artistic practice, Butseva is\u00a0also\u00a0an educator and\u00a0researcher. Her academic publications include\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15596893.2022.2097396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vernacular Memorial Museums: Memory, Trauma and Healing in Post-communist Bulgaria<\/a><\/em>, published in\u00a0<em>Museums &amp; Social Issues<\/em> (2022). She has served as Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and has taught at the University for the Creative Arts and SFK International Art School in China. She has delivered lectures and participated in academic programmes at institutions including the University of Toronto, University of Regensburg, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and Lund University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krasimira Butseva is an artist-researcher whose practice examines the politics of memory, political violence, and the contested histories of socialist and post-socialist Bulgaria. She works across photography, moving image, sound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22928,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"country":[79],"pl-categs":[5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22930,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22927\/revisions\/22930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=22927"},{"taxonomy":"pl-categs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pl-categs?post=22927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}