Alina Papazova

(b. 1993) is a visual artist based in Sofia, working across ceramics, drawing, textiles, sculpture and 3D. She first studied graphic arts and illustration at the New Bulgarian University, spent a semester at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and returned to NBU for a Master’s in Ceramics and Porcelain. Contemporary and Digital Forms. In 2023 she completed a PhD in Visual Plastic Arts there.

to 2024 she taught ceramics and porcelain at the same university. Since 2023 she has also worked as a 3D artist at the animation studio ROBO Lab.

deals with the bittersweet nostalgia of childhood and the traces it leaves in adult life: memories that become exaggerated or bent out of shape, magical states, and dream spaces that borrow from past civilisations. Her installations move between ordinary present-day life and fairy-tale alternative dimensions.

Each medium came from a different part of her path: drawing from illustration, clay from ceramics, 3D from animation. She rarely keeps them apart. Glazed figures, felted wall reliefs, altar-like tables, dioramas and video often share one room, arranged as a scene the viewer walks into rather than a row of objects on plinths.