Biography

Awards

2006 Artsadmin Bursary Recipient for Early Career Artists

2005 Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design: Finalist
2003 Wimbledon School of Art Travel Bursary – Prague for the Prague Quadrennial

Residencies

2010 Residency at South Hill Park, Berkshire, UK

2009 Residency at South Hill Park, Berkshire, UK

2009 Residency at Watermill Centre, New York

2007 Residency at ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany

Education

2005-2001 Wimbledon School of Art, London U.K. Design for Performance – BA(Hons) (1st Class)
2000-1999 City of Bath College, Bath – Foundation Course in Art and Design (Distinction) – scholarship funded by the British Council
2000-1995 National High School for Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria (Distinction)

Design for Dance, Film, Theatre

2010 Elephant 21 by Sarah May and the Mayhem Company, Director- Ben May

**** Time Out Magazine

"A lively, visually accomplished romp"

2010 Moon Fool- Ill Met by Moonlight- devised performance by the company Director- Ian Morgan

**** Whatsonstage

"Production Designer Katherina Radeva adds to the eerie athmosphere" Whatsonstage
" always exhilarating "
" plays like jazz variations, beautifully orchestrated " Observer
2009 Various Cures for Lonelines- devised performance by the company Director- Martin Constantine, The Albany, London

2009 Glass Mountain by Anna Reynolds for Trestle Theatre-Set and Costume national tour starting in Autumn 2009

**** Whats On Stage ****Venue Magazine

"...stunning images..." The Observer

"Some wonderfully imaginative work by designer Katherina Radeva" Bristol Evening Post

"The movement involves all the ladders which take on their own paths in the drama and Radeva has devised some simple but effective costume changes to indicate the shifts from the present day to a timeless past...." Whats On Stage

2008 Trestle International Workshop- Set and Costume Design, Trestle Arts Base- St.Albans and Shiobhan Davies Studios, London

2008 Hungry Ghosts by Lost Dog dance company- Costume Design, international tour

2008 Hansel und Gretel opera by E.Humperdinck- Set & Costume Design, Open Air Theatre, Surrey
2008 Fat Christ new writting by Gavin Davis, Set & Costume Design, Kings Head Theatre, London
“A word has to go to Katherina Radeva who provided a very serviceable set” The British Theatre Guide
2008 Veil by Bob Frith, Horse and Bamboo Theatre Set & Costume Design for mid scale National Tour
“Veil is a huge step forward for visual theatre” The Stage
2008-2007 Hungry Ghosts by Lost Dog dance company – Costume Design, The Place, London
2007 Subtransmission by Simon Humphreys Musical Play Costume Design- Courtyard Theatre London
2007 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde – Costume Design, Cockpit Theatre, London
2007 Pig Tales – Set & Costume design for small scale touring production by Julie McNamara
2007 Ignorance Is – Set & Costume Design for new writing, Chelsea Theatre, London
2007 Persona Non Grata – Set & Costume design for dance, by Carlota Miceli, The Place, London
2006 The Underpants adapted by Steve Martin- Set and Costume Design, Old Red Lion Theatre
“Katherina Radeva’s design is impressive” The Stage, **** Metro, **** The Sunday Telegraph
2005 Twelfth Night by W. Shakespeare – Costume Design a site specific performance, Soho, London
2005 Smother Mother – Production Design for a 35mm film dir. Mark Sayles, London Film School
2005 Daffodils part of “Dance Collaborations 2005” – Set & Costume Design, The Place, London

Devised Performance Works

2010 Burning Black- a devised performance in collaboration with Alister Lownie, South Hill Park, Berkshire

2010 Fallen Fruit- now you are here- now you are gone (as work in progress) at Battersea Arts Centre, London and The Bluecoat, Liverpool

2010 You might like it- devised performance with theatre design students- Wimbledon College of Art Theatre, London

2009 Kitty has no Pity- The Art of Not Giving Up- South Hill Park as part of Rules & Regs 2009

2009 Fallen Fruit (as a work in progress) Up the Wall in Chester and Soft Cuts at Blue Elephant Theatre, London

2009 Native Birds - Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, New York, Toynbee Studios, London and Pilot 17 at Stan Cafe's Space in Birmingham, Showroom in Chichester

2009 Birds behind Bars (work in progeress -stage II)- devised performance as part of Practice at Salisbury Arts Centre

2008 Birds Behind Bars( work in progress-stage I)- devised performance, BAC-London, Greenroom-Manchester, Easton Community Centre- Bristol

2008 Wine with a difference – devised performance, Keeping it Live, Hertford, curated by Holly Darton
2007 Part and Parcel devised performance, Toynbee Studios, as part of Artsadmin Bursary, London
2007 Water into Wine – devised performance at The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
2005-2004 Settling Dirt – devised performance at EXPO, Nottingham, Insomnia, London and East End Collaborations, London
2004 Inside and OUT – devised performance Area 10, London and N.R.L.A, Glasgow
2003 Bird Can FLY - devised performance Wimbledon Arts Club, London and Cinema Nova, Brussels
2003 Deferral – devised performance Wimbledon Scholl of Art Theatre, London

Selected Exhibitions and films

2009 Looking OUT- solo exhibition at M2 Gallery, London

2009 Friday- documentary film about few young Bulgarian folklore dancers based in London

2008 The Scale of Things- Duo Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Ideas Space, London

2008 Tracing Love 24/7 – Photography Exhibition, DEVE, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 Courtyard Arts Open Exhibition, Hertford, U.K with paintings
2008-2007, 2003-2007 Collaborators, SBTD Exhibition of UK Design for Performance, Nottingham and Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2008 Mein erstes Kunsterlebnis – The first time you encountered Art, Wallraf das Museum, Cologne created and curated by Cornel Wachter with a small writing
2006 Zoo group show of drawings – Nolia’s Gallery, London
2006-2005 Original mono screen prints – Progresso Cafe- Portobello Road, London
2005 Linbury Biennial-Finalist – Lyttelton Foyer, Royal National Theatre, London
2002 Solo exhibition- Stonemasons Arms, Hammersmith, London, UK- screen-prints
2001 Exhibition with contemporary artists in Erkrath, Dusseldorf, Germany
2001 International Drawing Competition Exhibition- Moderna Galeria Rijeka, Croatia
2001 Prints in Varna Printmaking Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
2001 Prints in the Third International Print Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria

Katherina has worked as an Assistant Designer to Yolanda Sonnabend for ballet productions at the Royal Opera House and Geraldine Pilgrim for Corridor Site-Specific Performances. She has also given presentations and lectures to Foundation students from The City of Bath College, Bath as well teaching young people aged 8-12 in classical observational drawing. Katherina has worked as a picture framer and still works as a free-lanced set and costume dresser. Katherina occasionally performs in other artist's works.

She has taken part in creative workshops from leading Performance Artist such as Guillermo Gomez-Pena, La Ribot, Gary Stevens, John Jordan, Quarantine Theatre, Mem Morrison, Rajni Shah and Lorena Rivero de Beer.

Katherina is an Artsadmin Bursary Recipient 2006

Member of:

Society of British Theatre Designers
http:// www.theatredesign.org.uk

Equity
http://www.equity.org.uk

Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
http://www.sbhart.com