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Annex 1: Biographies

The author of the interviews' summary Vladiya MIHAYLOVA has been a participant and initiator of various artistic and research projects, some of them dedicated to cultural management and policy. She has contributed to online and offline magazines for art and culture including website “Cult.bg”, newspaper “Culture”, and magazines “Altera” and “Lik”. Mihaylova is a PhD candidate in “Virtual Media and Cultural Identities” at Sofia University. She has an MA in contemporary art and has studied cultural studies in the Department of History and Theory of Culture at the same university. Her MA thesis is about the avant-garde debate in visual arts during 1990s Bulgaria, entitled “(Im)possible project: Contemporary Bulgarian Art”.

The writer Georgi TENEV is the author of novels and theatre pieces for stage and radio. He is the co-founder of Triumviratus Art Group, together with Yavor Gurdev and Nikola Toromanov. He was awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival for Television and Radio Productions in Berlin, and is the current Herder scholarship holder. Tenev is author and host of the TV programme The Library, broadcast on Channel 1 of Bulgarian National Television.

The artist Pravdoliub IVANOV is one of the most prominent and interesting contemporary Bulgarian artists. He has held several individual exhibitions and has taken part in many group shows, which include “Of Mice and Men” at the 4th Berlin Bienniale and Manifesta 3, "Borderline Syndrome". Ivanov is one of the three Bulgarian artists chosen to represent the country in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Since 1996, he has been teaching at the National Academy for Fine Arts.

The policy maker Having worked as documentaries editor at the national television station since the beginning of the 1980s, Deyana DANAILOVA is engaged with international cultural policy at the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture. She has written articles in the Bulgarian media and internationally on the problems of cultural policy in Bulgaria, including both bilateral and multilateral cultural cooperation. At present Danailova is Director of the European Integration and International Co-operation Sector at the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture. She is also Bulgaria’s representative in CDCULT and the Council of Europe, as well as a member of the Steering Committee for the Cultural Policies Programme, European Cultural Foundation.

The researcher Professor in Cultural Economics at the University of National and World Economics in Sofia, Biliana TOMOVA is the author of articles, monographs and research projects dedicated to cultural management, cultural economics and financing of the public sector. She is a member of the National Council of Cinema and CIRCLE, a member of the Steering Committee of National Fund „Culture” and a co-founder of the .Bulgarian Association of CulturalManagers

The arts manager Stefan KITANOV is director of film production companies RFF International and Art Fest International, as well as founder and Director of Sofia International Film Festival. Kitanov is a member of the European Film Academy. He was associate producer of “England, My England” (1995) and “The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka or The Mystery of Chopin” (1999), both directed by Tony Palmer. Producer of several documentaries and feature films with prestigious international awards. Since November 2003 he has been managing the Cinema House in Sofia.