Vasilena Gankovska was born in 1978 in Troyan. After her graduation from the National Art Academy of Sofia in 2001, she continued her art studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has taken part in various artistic projects, performances and interventions such as: Cash, Cans & Candy a streetartproject, Hilger Next, Vienna (2013), Disturbances in theStructure, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (2013), FRAGILE PIECE OF ART, artistic interventions and performances, Sofia, Paris, Vienna (2013 – 2008), ChangingPerceptions, EBRD, London (2012).

She lives and works in Vienna and Sofia.

"“So close, so far” is a title which refers to a state of being, an actual condition, or describes the process of the making, for example, of an art work. In my case it stays for my artistic presence in a local context and my actual absence from its everyday life. By choosing to participate in this project I deal with the geographical notion of the title: I am close to the place thorugh the topics of my art works, but at the same time I am not present in it."