Dessislava Dimova is a writer and curator based in Brussels. She is a founding member of Art Affairs and Documents Foundation, Sofia and founding editor of blistermagazine.com. Some of her recent curatorial projects include: The Wrong Side of History – a series of walking lectures for Zapaden Park Festival, Sofia, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tommy Hilfiger and Elle Macpherson are flying on a plane… – a cabaret evening for Sofia Contemporary Festival (2013), In 15 minutes everyone will be in the future (Plovdiv, 2012), Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Material Culture: Things in our Hands, (Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, 2011). In 2010 she was the co-curator of Thank You for Your Understanding – Second International Antakya Biennale, Turkey. Her first novel «The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» was published in Bulgarian in 2009 (Razvitie, Sofia). She studied art history at the Bulgarian Academy of Arts, Sofia and philosophy at CRMEP, Middlesex University, London and is currently completing her PhD.