Radostina Doganova was born in Dobrich in 1975. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, with Prof. Ian Berger. In 2010, she obtained a PhD at the same Academy. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Germany and Austria. Radostina is one of the popular young Bulgarian artists in Slovakia. She is active in social activities among the Bulgarian community there, and she works on a number of creative projects with children from the Bulgarian school in Bratislava. She is Member of the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad.

Lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia.

“So close and so far away… When you go away from home, when you’re traveling, you meet many people, different cultures, you see beautiful and wonderful things... Unfamiliar streets, other spaces, foreign history... You look at people, houses, surrounding landscapes and search for your reflection … You look for your own image in another’s mirror and mark your "point - place" on the alien geographical map.

And perhaps somewhere there, far away, begins the real journey that takes us back to ourselves. A journey along different cultural paths that brings you back to the home of the soul, your own cultural identity.  The road on which you slowly gather the particles of your artistic character.”

“The artist Radostina Doganova presents in her paintings an aesthetic conception of pictorial space that contains several dichotomous plains in terms of content and meaning. Major catalyst in her work is the dialogue between the seen, the source of creative impulses and inner spiritual disposition of the author”.

Prof. Ludovit Holoska, magazine of literature and art "Slovak Views", 5/2011