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First name

Teodora

Last Name

Kotseva

Username

TeodoraKotseva

City

Berlin

Country

Germany

Biography

Teodora Kotseva is an art manager, curator, writer and cultural entrepreneur working in the fields of limited edition design, contemporary art, time-based video art and cultural entrepreneurship. Her educational background comprises of BA in Art, Culture and Communication from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and MA in Cultural Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the past seventeen years she has lived and worked in Milan, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, and most recently Berlin. For more than ten years she has overseen mainly her own enterprises as well as commissions for clients ranging from cultural institutions, galleries, artists and various cultural workers.The areas in which she has expertise includes among others: art direction, organisation and financial planning for the realisation of cultural events, art exhibitions, art fairs, artist talks etc, PR and marketing of cultural events, curatorial direction for art events, publishing and editing of exhibition catalogues, online content and printed media, work for commercial art galleries at international art fairs, presentation and sales of art and design works.

Education

School / Course

MA Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship – Erasmus Universiteit /Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Graduated

2008

School / Course

BA International Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication – Bocconi University /Milan, Italy

Graduated

2007

Jobs & Positions

Company / Organisation

PR and PRESS relations Artists Jimmie Durham and Maria Thereza Alves (LABINAC) at Royal Gardens Venice, on occasion of Venice Architecture Biennial 2021 https://www.designboom.com/design/labinac-echoes-forest-maria-thereza-alves- jimmie-durham-trees-tables-marble-venice-biennale-05-31-2021/

From year

2021

To year

2021

Company / Organisation

Founder and art director at Sold Out Design

From year

2020

To year

2021

Company / Organisation

Curator/ moderator: “How Art a Design Can be?” Panel discussion presented at Direktorenhaus Design Museum/ Berlin https://www.direktorenhaus.com/en/events/event/how-art-a-design-can-be/

From year

2019

To year

2019

Company / Organisation

Marketing and Sales Manager – Paulina’s Friends Fashion Concept Store/ Berlin, Mitte

From year

2018

To year

2019

Company / Organisation

International Project Manager – Eidotech GmbH / Berlin,Germany

From year

2015

To year

2019

Company / Organisation

Co-Founder, Director – Kolektif / Platform for contemporary art and design

From year

2010

To year

2014

Press & Publications

Publication

“The Entity of ZOON”, 2013, Roodkpaje Gallery

Publication

RAW EXPO, East of Best, “This Could Be Rotterdam or Anywhere”, Kunstweekend Charlois

Publication

Writer for ArtSlant: texts included at the New York Art Resources Consortium, part of which are the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum, Frick Collection, Museum of Modern Art New York

Publication

MA Thesis: “Marketing in Contemporary Art Galleries: the Dutch Art Market” Erasmus University, Rotterdam, paper included at the Boekman Foundation for Art, Culture, and Policy, Amsterdam

Publication

BA Thesis: “Cultural Tourism: case study Bulgaria”, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Paper: “The Female Nude Represented by Photography”, Photography class led by Edward Rozzo

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