Transforming physical environments through precise projection-based storytelling. Crafting visual ecosystems for urban and theatrical contexts.
Media Design
Petko Tanchev brings a holistic vision to media design, ensuring visual coherence while adapting to complex production setups. His scenographic concepts draw on minimal forms, projection, and modular structures. Each element is crafted to support narrative flow and live performance. His approach transforms media into an active part of the storytelling, enhancing the stage and audience experience.
Projection Art
Projection as Narrative Medium
Media projection is central to Petko Tanchev’s creative practice, extending physical surfaces into immersive narrative spaces. He develops intricate mappings across architectural façades, cultural landmarks, and scenographic compositions, blending technical precision with strong conceptual intent. His work explores the relationship between image and structure — treating projection as both medium and poetic intervention.
Immersive Visual Environments
Beyond spatial mapping, Tanchev creates cohesive visual environments shaped by generative systems and digital scenography. His approach combines storytelling with technological innovation, flexibly adapting to diverse production contexts. Each projection becomes a living visual organism — in dialogue with light, sound, movement, and space— laying the foundation for stage and performance.
Moby Dick, performance by National Theatre Ivan Vazov, Sofia, 2024
Stage and Scenography
Rooted in scenography and media practice, Petko Tanchev crafts visual worlds for theatre, opera, and interdisciplinary performance. His scenographies are shaped by clarity, rhythm, and symbolic structure — using space as a dramaturgical tool rather than a static backdrop. Projection, light, and architecture are tightly interwoven to support the narrative, often through modular or mobile physical elements that enable layered meanings and fluid stage compositions.
Integrating Media Design
As a media designer, Tanchev builds the entire visual language of a production — from initial concept to execution. His works merge accuracy and intuition, created in close collaboration with directors, composers, and performers to shape cohesive, resonant environments where projection and scenography interact seamlessly.
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