About Irina Goleva

Irina Goleva is a professional Bulgarian contemporary artist, stage designer and dance performance director. She loves painting and drawing since a little child. Her father was a skillful professional artist who graduated in Vietnam in the late 1960's with the rare specialty of lacquer painting. He taught his daughter how to express herself in the most open, pure, even naïve way. 

In 1998 Irina Goleva graduated from the High School for Fine Arts in Sofia with the specialty fine art painting on textiles. Later on in 2002 she graduated from the National Theatre and Film Academy with master degree in acting and theater stage design. She is now nationally acclaimed with her contemporary theater performances, for which she has won many prestigious national awards. 

Since 2017 he started working with the Bulgarian Integrated Artists Gallery in Sofia-city. Now this collaboration is leading to the successful distribution worldwide of more than 30 original artworks of hers and overall development of her art drawing style and online presentation. Lots of his artworks are already part of private collections all over the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK and the US.