[Текст доступен только на английском языке] Anna Bacheva is a Bulgarian visual artist and artistic director based in Paris whose practice explores the relationships between moving image, sound, architecture, and immersive environments. Working across digital scenography, large-scale projection, installation, generative processes, and audiovisual performance, she investigates perception, memory, and the increasingly fluid boundaries between physical and virtual space.
With a background in film, animation, and digital scenography, Bacheva progressively expanded the moving image beyond the conventional screen, approaching architecture and physical space as active components of audiovisual composition. Her works transform surfaces, buildings, and immersive environments into evolving visual landscapes in which image, sound, light, and spatial perception become interconnected.
Between 2015 and 2025, she was a member of Studio Otaika, developing immersive installations, audiovisual works, and architectural projections presented internationally at institutions and venues including La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, SAT – Society for Arts and Technology in Montréal, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Tsaritsyno Palace in Moscow, Miyazaki Museum, and Wonderspaces in Los Angeles.
Her research has also developed through a series of artistic residencies and interdisciplinary projects dedicated to immersive and spatial practices, including programmes at La Villette, La Gaîté Lyrique, and collaborations involving AADN and IRCAM. These experiences have extended her investigation into multisensory environments, generative imagery, augmented reality, and new forms of interaction between audiovisual composition and architectural space.
Bacheva has developed several projects connected to the artistic legacy of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In 2021 she worked on Iron Curtain, while in 2025 she contributed to the Wrapped Reichstag 30th Anniversary Light Show in Berlin, a large-scale projection project commemorating thirty years since Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s transformation of the Reichstag. Her visual work translated archival and historical material into a contemporary digital intervention across the architecture of the building.
Alongside these projects, her recent research includes Digital Vandalism, an ongoing investigation into digital interventions in urban space, and projects connecting digital artistic practices with questions of landscape, cultural memory, and environmental transformation. Across her work, Bacheva approaches digital imagery not as an isolated surface, but as a spatial material capable of reshaping architecture, perception, and the viewer’s experience of physical space.
