"My practice is centered on the development of concept-driven exhibitions that address social, psychological, and contemporary issues, often exploring the relationship between the individual and the broader societal context."

Kristina Vatova is visual artist based in Bulgaria. She works primarily in painting, combining realism, surrealism, and conceptual approaches.

She was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She completed her secondary art education at the National High School of Fine Arts in Plovdiv. In 2012, she participated in the Erasmus exchange program at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Fine Arts from the National Art Academy in Sofia.

Her works have been presented in multiple solo exhibitions in Bulgaria and she regularly participates in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Since 2016, she has been a member of Union of Bulgarian Artists. Through a combination of figurative imagery and conceptual frameworks, her work seeks to engage viewers in reflection on contemporary human experience and the conditions that shape it.

"My solo exhibition "Confluence" explores the relationship between man and water as a process of mutual penetration – physical, emotional and existential. The human body becomes a landscape, and water – a carrier of feelings, memory and change.

The human body is made up of approximately 70% water. This fact is not only biological, but also deeply symbolic – it reminds us that water is not an external resource, but an internal essence.

Water has the ability to purify – not only physically, but also mentally. It calms, liberates and returns a person to his natural rhythm. In the paintings, it becomes an image of a feeling – quiet, stormy, gentle or uncontrollable – as are our inner states.

The exhibition opens a space for contemplation and awareness – that by preserving water, we preserve ourselves, and by changing our attitude towards nature, we also change the direction in which our own existence flows."