Sévérina Ianakieva

Sévérina Ianakieva is a Bulgarian-born artist. Galerie Ars Longa sees her work as eminently contemporary Hoperian poetry, tinged with Slavic influences.

She began her training in the Faculty of Letters and Arts before obtaining her DNSEP at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille. This initial training gave her a taste for literature and philosophy, which is visible in her art through the narrative and enigmatic atmosphere it conveys, as well as her interest in traditional Bulgarian tales. The diversity of mediums she employs responds to the need to act on her present space, with a painting style featuring rapid gestures, unctuous materials and strong, almost drawn strokes. In fact, she plays with tipping very real subjects into the in-between-worlds space specific to that of immigrant children, as an attempt to take what escapes her, thus creating works with an eminently cinematographic dimension.

Since 2017, the artist has participated in various group exhibitions and residencies in France and Germany. In 2025, she took part in the exhibition series Three Centimeters Above the Earth at the Espace Saint-Marie in Puyloubiers, the Mac Arteum in Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, and the Musée Melik in Cabriès, curated by Christiane Courbon. She was also part of the Curriculum-Chromé program, which concluded with a group exhibition at the Ateliers Jeanne Barret in Marseille. Her work has also been published in the ten-year edition of Manifesto XXI, “How to Love When It’s the End of the World”. Galerie Ars Longa exhibit from January 23 to February 18 her most recent artworks for the exhibition Tu vas me manquer.