Bilyana Palankasova
Bilyana Palankasova is a researcher and curator based in Glasgow. Her work threads together curatorial praxis, art history and cultural studies, specialising in contemporary art, digital culture and critical artistic engagement with science and technology. She approaches curating as a material-discursive practice beyond the exhibition as a way of constructing encounters between artistic, scientific, and situated knowledges. Her doctoral research at the University of Glasgow developed through an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award theorised media art festivals as instituting agents that contribute to field formation and the institutionalisation of inter-disciplinary experimental practices. Her current research follows two intersecting lines: institutional transformation and death as curatorial conditions through which values, attitudes, and infrastructures are revealed, transformed, or abandoned; and how artistic practices and speculative thought make perceptible the technological objects, infrastructures and abstract systems organising contemporary life and shaping experiences of space, time, power, and agency.
In 2025, Bilyana initiated Sandbox, a curatorial platform for inter- and trans- disciplinary practice. Her recent project, wave, clock, forecast, comprised an artist residency and commission with University of Glasgow’s Extreme Light Group, alongside a symposium of talks, screening, and performance exploring encounters between artistic research and quantum physics. She was part of the curatorial team for Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (2024-25) at Tate Modern and has researched with transmediale, FutureEverything, and NEoN Digital Arts. She holds MLitt in Curatorial Practice from the Glasgow School of Art, MSc in Modern & Contemporary Art from The University of Edinburgh, and MA in History of Art & Digital Media and Information Studies from the University of Glasgow.
Bilyana Palankasova
Bilyana Palankasova is a researcher and curator based in Glasgow. Her work threads together curatorial praxis, art history and cultural studies, specialising in contemporary art, digital culture and critical artistic engagement with science and technology. She approaches curating as a material-discursive practice beyond the exhibition as a way of constructing encounters between artistic, scientific, and situated knowledges. Her doctoral research at the University of Glasgow developed through an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award theorised media art festivals as instituting agents that contribute to field formation and the institutionalisation of inter-disciplinary experimental practices. Her current research follows two intersecting lines: institutional transformation and death as curatorial conditions through which values, attitudes, and infrastructures are revealed, transformed, or abandoned; and how artistic practices and speculative thought make perceptible the technological objects, infrastructures and abstract systems organising contemporary life and shaping experiences of space, time, power, and agency.
In 2025, Bilyana initiated Sandbox, a curatorial platform for inter- and trans- disciplinary practice. Her recent project, wave, clock, forecast, comprised an artist residency and commission with University of Glasgow’s Extreme Light Group, alongside a symposium of talks, screening, and performance exploring encounters between artistic research and quantum physics. She was part of the curatorial team for Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (2024-25) at Tate Modern and has researched with transmediale, FutureEverything, and NEoN Digital Arts. She holds MLitt in Curatorial Practice from the Glasgow School of Art, MSc in Modern & Contemporary Art from The University of Edinburgh, and MA in History of Art & Digital Media and Information Studies from the University of Glasgow.