About//
*1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently living and working in Vienna.
Milena Georgieva is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, composer, dj, landscape designer and educator. Her work spans across site-specific, sound and new media art, queer-feminism, body and identity politics, concrete to abstract electroacoustic and experimental music, speculative design and story-telling. In her projects she examines space as a construct – physical, virtual, public and intimate. Further she questions from a critical and personal point of view the systems forming and inducing these constructs and seeks to synthesize a self- and site-specific narrative, which in her recent works takes the form of sound compostions, installations and performance.
Georgieva has exhibited and performed at the Technical Museum Vienna, Kunsthalle Vienna, Botanical Garden Vienna, Take Festival for independent Fashion and Arts in Vienna, Goethe-Instutute Bulgaria, National Palace of Culture in Sofia and Sofia City Art Gallery among other places. In 2019 she was nominated for the BAZA contemporary art prize.
Under the moniker Yuzu, Georgieva is composing, performing live and dj-ing. Her sets transgress genre boundaries forming complex narratives and bodies of sound. Yuzu has been witnessed in Vienna, Berlin, Sofia, Linz, Graz and Innsbruck, including Wiener Festwochen, ImpulsTanz, Elevate Festival, Unsafe + Sounds Festival, Donaufestival, Sonic Territories, WAF Gallery, Notgalerie, Velak Gala, Popfest, Berlin Community Radio and New New World Radio among others.
Milena is also:
+ an active member of CZIRP CZIRP as well - a collective supporting, producing and communi- cating experimental music, sound and digital art through nomadic cultural and ephemeral events.
+ former member of VELAK – a non-profit organisation and platform for artists who work in fields of experimental music and sound/art.
+ co-founder of CLINIC, a former platform and event format in Vienna, which challenged the hierarchical structures found within club culture and the experimental electronic music scene.
+ organizer of the event series SEBISM, a DIY home for contemporary experimental music performances, underground zeal and radical zest.
CV//
Education/
2015-2021/ /Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art and Education
2009-14/ /University of Applied Arts Vienna, Landscapedesign / Site-specific Art, MA
2012/ / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Industrial Design 2, Prof. Fiona Raby
2007-08/ /National Academy of Arts Sofia, Poster and Visual Communication
Additional Professional Experience //
since 2016/ /curatorial work for music, new media art and performance events
2015-2016/ / Executive Producer at The Eel House Filmproductions, Vienna
2015-2016/ /designer at Idealice, office for landscape architecture, Vienna
2013/ /Internship @ Martha Schwartz Partners, office for landscape architecture London
since 2009/ /freelancing graphic designer
Grants, Awards and Nominations/
2022/ / Fellowship Composition, MA7 Vienna
2022/ /Residency at Symposion Lindabrunn
2021/ /Residency at “Arbeitsplatz” Vienna 2020/ /Project Grant, MA7 Vienna
2019/ / Nomination for BAZA Award for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria
2018/ /Residency at Kulturtankstelle Linz
2014/ / Merit-based grant, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2013/ / Winner of “THE PITCH! #7” ARTE Creative and Output, with the video “Breakthrough”
2012/ /Winner, YCC Contest with the video “Breakthrough”
Selected Projects, Exhibitions and Perfromances//
2022/ / TOWER OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, interactive virtual sound sculpture for Kongreßbad Vienna, within MEDIA AND SOUND POOL by czirp czirp and The Artificial Museum
/ “Die Wilden Sind Wir”, performance and live sound as Pandora (w/ Harald Stojan) Symposium IV / Kunst & Ökologie, Lindabrunn
/ Liebe Hilde, deine Zoé, composition and live sound for performance and public space intervention, a project by Johanna Figl and Martina Rössler with students of the Integrativen Lernwerkstatt Brigittenau and elderly people from the Pensionist:innenklubs Leithastraße and Greiseneggerstraße. Brigittaplatz
/ Souffle Continu by Tarek Atoui, performer and musician, Wiener Festwochen
/ {PAN TR∀CT}, performance + live concert, w/ Magdalena Forster Leon Höllhumer, Performative Screenings #74, school, Vienna
/ CAULIFLOWER SOUNDFESTIVAL, acousmatic concert, VELAK + Vienna Acousmatik Project Semperdpot, Vienna
2021/ / ”Club Possession”, performance as Pandora (w/ Harald Stojan), Celeste, Vienna
/ ”OFFSHORE HEIDI”, performance as Pandora (w/ Harald Stojan), BLOB together PRST, Vienna
/ ”What I can show I cannot say” I + II, installation and performance, BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
/”T.E. honeymoon, immer am Laufen”, sound composition for video piece by Elisabeth Falkinger, PARALLEL VIENNA
/”DIGITAL.RELEASE”, composition and video, commissioned for Oceanic Feeling by czirpczirp.cc, animation by TE-R
/”CICADA GAMES”, graphic design + art direction for site-specific AR + ASMR audio play app by Claire Tolan, commissioned by czirpczirp.cc
/”À manipuler with care” sound piece with Ingrid Cogne, Michaela Stock Gallery, Vienna
2020/ /”From Violence to Ambience”, sound installation, Goethe-Institut, Sofia
2019/ /“The Song About the Woman“/„We‘ve got something to talk about“, performance and installation, Sofia City Art Gallery
/”F*Future” educational project, Kunsthalle Vienna
2018/ /“re:donau“, Kulturtankstelle, Linz
2017/ /“En Suite“, performance, Rosa Rauschen, Vienna
/“tender trap“, installation, Take Festival Vienna
/“Ich-Nicht-Ort“, performance, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Fluc Vienna
2016/ /“Dissonanz“, sound installation, SOHO in Ottakring
2014/ /”URBAN FLOWRA”, conceptual landscape design, diploma with honours, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2013/ /”Picknick in The West”, happening, Zapaden Park Festival of art in public space, Sofia
2012/ /”Growing Responsibility” installation, “So close, so far - contemporary Bulgarian artists abroad”, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
2011/ /”Hosta Superstar”, installation, Botanical Garden, Vienna
2010/ /”Bärenstark”, installation, “Wunschmaschinen”, exhibition, Technisches Museum, Vienna
Selected Performances Yuzu //
2022/ / Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
/ Music Unlimited Festival, Wels
/ Unsafe + Sounds Festival, Vienna
/ Struma + Iodine, Rhiz, Vienna
/ Donaufestival, Krems
/ Sonic Territories, Seestadt, Vienna
/ STREAM Festival, Linz
/ K.W.K.W., p.m.k. Innsbruck
2021/ /Wiener Festwochen MITTEN
/WAF Gallery Vienna with Leon Höllhummer
/Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Vienna
2020/ /Elevate Festival, Graz
/Notgalerie, Vienna
2019/ / JESHK - Festival für experimentelle Musik, WUK, Vienna
/ Impulstanz, Vienna
/ Velak Gala | Fluc, Vienna
/ Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
2018/
/ FLUCA, Sofia
/Club Radiokoje, Vienna
/Fabrika Avtonomia, Sofia
/Tontauben Festival, NÖ
2017/ / Popfest Vienna
/ SSTR6
/ Berlin Community Radio
Selected Collaborations //
2021/ /Claire Tolan, Ingrid Cogne,TE-R [Louise Linsenbolz + Thomas Wagensommerer], Elisabeth Falkinger, Harald Stojan
2020/ / Live Sound and Performance in Alberto Franceschini’s piece ”Strange is the Loop”
/Wiener Festwochen Reframed, commissioned co-curator (CZIRP CZIRP) for the public space performance of “Construction Choir Collective. A musical intervention in Meidling”.
2019/ /Jeremy Wade: Sound in „FCCCing Impulstanz The Musical“ Impulstanz, Vienna
2016/ /Lazar Lyutakov landscape design in the project “Rosae”, LPH Türnitz, Austria
/August Schram and Bastian Wilpling for the short film „Ich Armer Mensch“
2011/ /Tony Heywood in “Hosta Superstar”, Botanical Garden Vienna
Publications //