She is also manager of the New Culture Foundation[8] and researched the film heritage of the Bulgarian secret services in Sofia, Berlin and Munich.

Contentual focus of her work are the individual and collective traumas of the people in Bulgaria and Germany having been suffered by political circumstances.

At the beginning of every project her look goes back to the past, which gives her information about the historical roots of the present and the actual experiences of the people.

[14] After her cycle Hello Melancholy[15] was published in Capital weekly,[16] she was awarded on 16 August 2005 by the Austria Press Agency in Vienna with the prize Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)[17] – for her text Mrs. Bulgarian, Ivan Milev and Gustav Klimt.

In this way, Bela Rechka becomes a place of encounter, where the participants in joint designing the festival share stories, experiences and memories.

The focus of their joint project was the question of which traces socialism had left in the souls of men and what influence had these marks on their lifestyle and identity.

So Ivanova started initially in Bulgaria and later in Cuba bringing people together who wrote down their story with their street, took photos and then in personal encounter shared with each other.

[citation needed] Ivanova was invited along with Boris Deliradev by the British Council in Bulgaria,[35] to develop a concept for workshops with young people on the topic The EU and ME.

[36] From the desire to avoid general and superficial conversations on the subject, and under the influence of the then current waste crisis the idea for the project My street took shape.

[41] Together with Babak Salari[42] Ivanova in 2008 began her research on the project Traumas and Miracles - Portraits from the Northwest of Bulgaria in one of the economically weakest and poorest regions of the country.

[13] Inspired by the conviction of the French sociologist and philosopher Maurice Halbwachs, “that all of us unconsciously are ‘an echo’ of events that happened before our time”,[43] the aim of the project was a documentation of the oldest inhabitants of the region and their often traumatic stories.

With the intention to create a space “for words, phrases, images, faces that convey a sense of the area”, a “collection of fragments”[43] emerged with portraits and stories of 50 inhabitants in eight villages.

2010 the project was presented to the public with an exhibition at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna and in the National Art Gallery in Sofia.

[45] Idea and interviews she contributed to the 2012 released film Father by Ivan Bogdanov, a Bulgarian-, Croat, German co-production.

[50] Here, two former employees from Radio Free Europe (RFE) were invited: Luben Mutafoff, formerly journalist there, and Richard H. Cummings, former head of security – both after the film in an interview with the director.

Her interest in this context is it, to give a place to the suffering of people inflicted due to political circumstances on which it could be heard and may be alleviated.