Diana Picasso, the granddaughter of Picasso, is an art historian who is actively involved in exploring his rich art heritage.

Diana is an expert on Picasso’s sculptures and an author of plenty of publications on Picasso’s art. Since 2003 she has been working on catalogue raisonne of Picasso's sculptures.

In December 2009, Diana Picasso was a special V.I.P. guest for the official opening of Modern Art Gallery in Sofia. During the vernissage she presented a series of erotic drawings by Picasso as well as her book “Art Can Only Be Erotic”, dedicated to Picasso’s erotic art.

Dr. Geza Von Habsburg is an internationally renowned art historian and expert on Salvador Dali’s art. In 2010 he was engaged with the curating of a retrospective exhibition of graphic art by Dali. The stunning art event, first of its kind in Bulgaria, took place as a joint project by the National Gallery for Foreign Art and Modern Art Gallery.

Archduke Géza of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia (given names: Géza Ladislaus Euseb Gerhard Rafael Albert Maria) was born on the 14th of November, 1940.

Géza von Habsburg is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria (1895–1957) and his wife Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) - thus, he is a grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and great-great grandson (on his father's mother's side) of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sissi).

Géza is a Fabergé expert and has published many books and more than 75 articles on the jewelers of the Tsars. Also, as a Board Member with the Fabergé Arts Foundation, he is the curator of several major international Fabergé exhibitions.

As an educator, Géza has served as an adjunct professor for The New York School of Interior Design, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, and New York University. He is currently a lecturer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Sir Peter Thomas Blake was born on 25 June 1932 in Dartford. Currently, he lives in Chiswick, London, UK.

During the late 1950’s Blake became one of the best-known British pop artists. His work includes collaged elements, sculptures, engravings and commercial art such as work on the cover design of musical albums of famous artists.

Blake has been a visiting lecturer at the renowned Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design and has held lectures at The Royal College. In 2002 Blake received knighthood for his services to art.

Blake has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and had his first solo exhibition in 1960. It was in the 'Young Contemporaries' exhibition of 1961 where he was exhibited alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj, that he was first identified with the emerging British Pop Art movement. Blake won the (1961) John Moores junior award for his work Self Portrait with Badges. He first came to wider public attention when, along with Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, he was featured in Ken Russell's Monitor film on pop art, Pop Goes the Easel, which was broadcast on BBC television in 1962. From 1963 Blake was represented by Robert Fraser, which placed him at the centre of swinging London and brought him into contact with leading figures of popular culture. Retrospectives of Blake's work were held at Tate London in 1983 and Tate Liverpool in 2007.

Blake, 79, has not stopped to make stunning art which is a must see. Last year he was featured with one-man show at Waddington Gallery. The exhibition entitled Homage 10 x 5 - Blake's Artists, consisted of fifty works that are homage to ten artists who have interested and excited Blake during his career. In April 2011 he organized the “Peter Blake: World Tour” exhibition at the exlusive New York Gallery Mary. And, as of the beginning of October 2011, some of his best known works have been on view at Sofia’s Modern Art Gallery.

Irina Mutafchieva is a director of the National Gallery for Foreign Art. Born in Sofia Irina studied Design at the National Art Academy. Later she went on to study Art History.

She graduated with a master’s degree and successfully defended a thesis on the history of design. Later Irina graduated as a Ph.D. in Moscow, specializing in Russian avant-garde from the 20’s of the 20th century.

Irina specialized in cultural management, collecting, business assessment of works of art and preservation of contemporary art. Her main research interests are related to modern European 20th century art. Her publications in specialized journals cover history and theory of art and design. She is author of many monographic essays. Irina has managed the organization and supervision of many exhibitions (1977-2010). Her professional career includes curator work at the Sofia Art Gallery, the National Gallery for Foreign Art and the National Art Gallery. She was editor of the Art magazine and expert at the Ministry of Culture. Irina was reselected for second mandate as Director of the National Gallery for Foreign Art.

Denitsa Atanasova Guergova is Modern Art Gallery’s Founder and President. Denitsa graduated the School of Applied Arts and holds a master’s degree in Mass Communications at the New Bulgarian University.

Denitsa has received certificates in Modern and Contemporary Art Collection and Evaluation by prestigious auction houses such as Christie and Sotheby’s. For the last two years, Denitsa has been working to establish global art market trends and collectors’ interest on the local market.

The Modern Art Gallery, the first of its kind in Bulgaria, owns a rich collection of original graphic works by some of the leading 20th century artists, such as Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Matisse, Dali, to name a few. At the prestigious gallery one can see postwar American art presented with works by pop art artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Robert Indiana. The gallery features works by elite contemporary artists such as Keith Haring, the American neo-expressionist Hunt Slonem and the British conceptual artist Damien Hirst. Apart from works by world-famous American and European masters of art, the Modern Gallery presents and promotes Bulgarian art. In the gallery, one can also admire Christo’s work with his projects in Berlin and Abu Dhabi, Houben Tcherkelov’s oils on canvas and oil by world-renowned Jules Pascin.

The Modern Art Gallery is proud to have hosted a list of leading cultural events on the local art scene. Among the most significant exhibitions are:

• The Damien Hirst show, the first of its kind in Bulgaria
• A Salvador Dali exhibition - the largest ever collection of graphic art exhibited in Bulgaria /a joint project with National Gallery for Foreign Art/
• Eric Mourlot visit to Bulgaria for the official opening of “WITNESSES OF THEIR TIME”
  Eric is the owner of the famous French lithographic studio “Atelier Mourlot”. The exhibition included 50 rare works by Picasso, Miro, Leger, Chagall and Duffy.
• The Brit exhibition in October 2011 featuring works by some of the most renowned British contemporary artists

Valeri Stefanov is chairman of the Union of Collectors in Bulgaria. Born in 1958 he graduates Bulgarian philology in St. Kliment Ochridski University. As of 1984, he has been a lecturer at the same university. He has headed the Bulgarian Literature department and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Slavic Philology at the St. Kliment Ochridski University. Valeri Stefanov has a Ph.D. in Philology with a thesis topic “Man in the Speech. Identity’s unsolved problems in the Bulgarian literature”. Valeri is professor in Bulgarian Literature History. He is the author of many books such as: Names of Time, Narodna mladej, 1989; The Story Tailer of Modern Times, Bulgarski Pisatel, 1990; The Work - an Endless Dialogue, St. Kliment Ochridski University 1992; 2nd issue, 1994; The Labyrinths of Sense, St. Kliment Ohridski University, 1993; The Literature as an Institution, Anubis, 1995; The Fate of Babylon, Anubis, 2000; Literature and its Fate, Anubis, 2002; 20th Century Bulgarian Literature, Anubis, 2003; Work - Spot in the World, Diogen , 2004; The Art of Writing, with Aleksander Panov, Diogen, 2004; Lost Donkeys, novel, Standart, 2005; Bulgarian Literature - Worlds and Existence, with Milena Kirova, Dante, 2006; The Devil. Experiments with the Scandalous History of Evil, St.Kliment Ohridski University, 2007; Somebody Beneath...,novel, Diogen, 2008; Bulgarian Culture of Speech St. Kliment Ohridski University, 2009.

Currently Lyuben Genov is chairman of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. Genov was born on the 18th of November, 1966 in Oriahovo, Bulgaria. He graduated from the High School of Applied Arts – Troyan (1985), the St. Ivan Rilski Pedagogic Institute of Fine Arts - Dupnitza (1991), the Jules Paskn Private Academy of Arts - Sofia (1996), and the Episkop Konstantin Preslavski University (2010/2011). In 2002 he specialised in the Paris studios of Cite International des Arts – France.

His solo exhibitions are: 2002 “Painting" - Cite des Art Gallery - Paris, France; 2005 "Acoustically" - painting, City Art Gallery, Sofia; 2006 "Internal sounds" – YUKA Gallery, Varna; "Azure" - Shmirgela Gallery, Sofia 2007; "River" - Agrion Gallery, Sofia, 2008; “Scattered spots” – Agrion Gallery, Sofia, 2009; “Improvisations” - Priests to the Muses Art-club restaurant , 2010. His joint exhibitions are: "Sound, Vibration, Silence" - painting - Gallery of UBA - Shipka 6, Sofia - with Yulii Takov and George Karantilski, 2002; Painting and sculpture exhibition – with Nina Ruseva and Pavlin Radevski – Circle + Gallery, Sofia 2003; "Abstractedly" - painting - Gallery of UBA - With Yulii Takov and Momchil Georgiev, 2005; his selected group exhibitions include: International”Triennial of Paintings in Sofia, shipka 6, 1995; : “Informal” - Raiko Aleksiev, Sofia, 2001; “10 x 5 x 3” -Shipka 6, Sofia, 2003; “Poetical -Social Reality”, Shipka 6, Sofia, 2004; ”Personal Mythologies” - Shipka 6, Sofia, 2005; “Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art - Mobiltel” - Shipka 6, 2006; “Traffic” - Shipka 6, Sofia, 2007; “Identities” - Shipka 6, sofia, 2008; “Close Distance” - Shipka 6, Sofia, 2008; “Born Independent” - Shipka 6, S ofia, 2009; “Reality/ Fiction” - Shipka 6, Sofia, 2009; International Exhibitions: 2006 "Contemporary Bulgarian artist – Mobikom Austria" – Kunstlerhaus, Wien; 2006 "Plastic-Conceptual" – contemporary Bulgarian painting, Poland, Netherlands, Germany; 2008 “Aktuelle szene Bulgarien” – Ludwig Museum at the Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany; 2010 “Colors of the transition” – Artis Gallery, Büren, Switzerland. He is awarded from the National Competition for Wall painting “Bulgarian Spiritual and Material Culture - Our Identity on the Way to Europe” - Sofia.

Svilen Stefanov is a Bulgarian art historian, critic and curator. His art is described as neo-conceptual. Born in 1966 in Sofia, Valeri graduated from the Art School. In 1992 he received a degree in Art History at the National Art Academy in Sofia and later, in 1997, he got a Ph.D. in Art History. Svilen headed the Art History department at the National Art Academy. He was editor in chief of the Art and Critics magazine. His work experience also includes work as an art historian, critic and curator. Svilen Stefanov is the author of number of books including The Bulgarian Print of the 20’s. Visual Language Features (1994); Cultural Variations of the Visual (1998); Art in the Cross Lline of Tradition and Provocation (2001); and in 2003 he published The avant-Garde and the Norm - regarded as the first in-depth research of conceptual art in Bulgaria from the 70’s to the end of 90’s of the 20th century. Svilen curated a list of international exhibitions and fairs with Bulgarian participation, including the second edition of the International Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentine, 2002; Bulgarian Landscape Seen as a Metaphor, XXL gallery, Sofia, 2001; Videomaraton, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kishinev, Moldova, 2000; Social art from Bulgaria, Wittgenstein Haus, Wien, Austria; New Radical Practices - XXL Gallery, 1997; Plastic Image of the 90’s, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, 1996; Proofs. The Real Diversity. 3rd Annual Exhibition of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia Art Gallery; N-Forms. Reconstructions and Interpretations, 1st Annual Soros Exhibition of the Contemporary Centre for Arts, Rayko Alexiev gallery, 1994.