Yoana Tuzharova

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In the exhibition P R E S E N T (2026) at the gallery, Yoana Tuzharova confronts us with the traces we leave behind every day between the digital and analog worlds: grease smudges and swipe marks that appear on smartphone screens while chatting, emailing, scrolling, shopping, and liking. The artist works with various media here: photography, print, installation, and light works. (Gilla Loercher)

“These painterly yet automated gestures are traces of our everyday lives, or rather: traces of the interface between the digital and physical worlds. At the same time, they are the origin of digitality, where decisions are made in fractions of a second with just a tap of the thumb,” writes Nantje Wilke.

"In her light installations, Yoana Tuzharova (born 1986) plays with the boundaries of perception of color, light and space. Tuzharova's superimposition of surfaces in the image cites a sculptural approach, while the monochromatic color surfaces and colored light of her installations retain a painterly character," writes Maren Klinkhammer (Insel Hombroich Foundation) about the artist's work. (Excerpt from: Catalog Yoana Tuzharova, light matter, 2023).
FOLDING VOID at Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art in 2024 was Yoana Tuzharova's first solo exhibition in Berlin.

Short biography | Yoana Tuzharova (born 1986 in Russe, Bulgaria) is a visual artist. She studied from 2005 - 2009 at the University of Arts in Veliko Tyrnovo, Bulgaria (Bachelor). From 2013 - 2019 she studied sculpture and art in public space at the Kunstakademie Münster and graduated in 2017 as a master student of Prof. Maik Löbbert and Prof. Dirk Löbbert.
In 2021, the artist was awarded the "Förderpreis Junge Positionen NRW" by the Förderverein Unser Fritz 2/3 e. V., Herne. In 2021 she was nominated for the art prize "Junger Westen", Recklinghausen and in 2022 she received the "GWK-Kunstpreis", Münster. In 2025 she was nominated for the STRABAG price and in 2026 for the MO award.
Her works have been exhibited in the following institutions, among others Raketenstation, Stiftung Insel Hombroich; KIT, Düsseldorf; Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto, Japan; Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm; Kunstmuseum Celle with Robert Simon Collection; MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Wewerka Pavillon, Münster; Gallery & Art Foundation Credo Bonum, Sofia, Bulgaria; Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid; Museum Goch and Museum Schloss Moyland and in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.