Credo Box: Gergana Tabakova

Credo Bonum Gallery presents:

Gergana Tabakova

25.02. – 08.04.2026

Orange is the sky, orange is the sea,
orange is the grass, and orange is the city.
Orange are the mothers, orange are the children,
orange are the guitars, ringing out in orange.*

The project traces how the material environment and cultural narratives shape and reproduce ideas about the role of women. The materiality of the work appears through recognizable cultural markers: images that do not describe an autonomous subject, but rather a script of expectations and external definitions.

At the same time, the work addresses gentrification as a form of “renewal” that often conceals mechanisms of homogenization and social exclusion. Within this process, female identity also becomes intertwined with class hierarchies — as a sign of status, lifestyle, and belonging.

Through contemporary, predominantly artificial materials, the project points to the inheritance and transformation of the symbols that fix women’s roles, and to the way old codes continue to operate in the city today.

* Adapted Bulgarian translation by Antoaneta Botusharova of the children’s song “The Orange Song” (1965), created by Arkady Arkanov, Grigory Gorin, and Konstantin Pevzner for the singer Irma Sokhadze.

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Gergana Tabakova holds an MA in Painting from the National Academy of Art (2017). She is deeply interested in the interaction between painting and other visual arts. In connection with this interest, she received a PhD from the National Academy of Art (2022). She works actively in the field of painting, while continuing to explore its relationships with other media.

Her work often reconsiders architectural and everyday environments, using the tension between perceptions of order, structure, and correctness, and those of disorder, inequality, and fragmentation.