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Plovdiv 2019. The Beginning
4 January 2019
We are so excited to join in celebrating the Opening of the Plovdiv 2019 - European Capital of Culture with the most attractive highlight in its programme - The We Are All Colors' Show. -
Sorry, what time does the exhibition start?
19 December 2018
It is true that in 2018 we were at a gallery almost as often as in a cinema. The art embraced us and asked us to step on it, we met it at new addresses and queued for it. After such a good year, we are only wondering why true art criticism is not growing here, while finger-pointing is rising? But let's start from the good end: all the big art projects outside, the solo exhibitions by young artists, the galleries that didn’t slow down even for a day. -
The secret gallery
13 December 2018
Today, in the National Gallery, we go beyond the doors marked Employees Only - because in our hand we've got a ticket for The magic of restavration which means an intimate, 50-minute long meeting with paintings by Alexander Petrov - Lavandulata and their main conservator, Peter Katerinov. -
A Factory For Letters
15 November 2018
text Violeta Ivanova
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - if this short message tells you something, you probably not only read, but also draw letters. That's what Fontfabric does - a digital font factory that this year celebrates its 10th birthday. -
U freeky?
11 October 2018
Roger Ballen is coming to Sofia and Plovdiv for a retrospective exhibition featuring more than 200 of his freeky photos - including the ones he made in collaboration with Die Antwoord. We expect him and his photos in early November - when we'll get to talk with him more. -
Festival Heat
9 August 2018
Summer finally acts like itself, so we quickly give you seven August fests if you've already loaded the tank, but are still wondering where to. -
Losing Ground Beneath Your Feet
23 May 2018
text Violeta Ivanova photos RAVE residency
If your daily route doesn't pass through the back of the National Library, consider changing it in the next two weeks. Ivan Mudov has just set his new trap on one of the alleys - the Stones installation, which your shoes will remember for a long time. -
A Common Sphere
17 May 2018
Designer and architect Elia Nedkov, jeweler Nilkolay Sardamov and poet and culturologist Anna Alexandra join talents in a new project called Sfera (Bul. - sphere). -
Art at every corner
3 May 2018
text Emanuela Ivanova photo Nadezda Pavlova
How an ex-cargo container manages to fit art projects from all over the world and present them here, in Bulgaria? if you don't know the answer to that, than you haven't been around Otets Paisii Str. in Plovdiv since the 2016. -
What we know about... Deyan Sudjic
19 April 2018
text Emanuela Ivanova
Director of London's Design Museum, awarded with the Order of the British Empire are just two of countless wow facts from the life of journalist, writer and architecture specialists Deyan Sudjic that erge us to catch the subway to the old Vitosha Factory on April 27. -
What We Didn't Know About... Mary Ellen Mark
22 March 2018
text Violeta Ivanova
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The artist as a scent
1 March 2018
Do you remember how La Haine smelled? When in 2017 we watched Matthew Kassovitz's movie in the House of Cinema, we felt his perfume in the salon, created specially for it by the perfumer Mark Buxton. Now the Berlin agency Folie À Plusieurs gathers us for an exhibition where mediator once again will be our sense of smell. -
Alive Topography
7 December 2017
text Violeta Ivanova
Imagine an exhibition of huge abstract paintings that are created right then and there. Now imagine an atmospheric music concert that is best experienced if you're seated, still and silent. Now combine the two things in one and the image in your head will be very close to what's coming to Dom na kinoto next Thursday - with Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama and E.U.E.R.P.I.'s ambient-drone music. -
Introduction in Contemporary Art: 100 Years of Action Art
9 November 2017
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Crossing the border
27 July 2017
text Natalia Ivanova
Do you imagine walking barefoot on the rough sand of the Sonora Desert in Mexico to start a new life in the States? It is unimaginable for us before we agree to go this way alone - into a dark hut in Fondazione Prada on the outskirts of Milan, where Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs our transformation into illegal immigrants. Virtually and just for seven minutes, in which you actually fall on your knees. This is Carne y Arena. -
RE-SOURCE: The Building as Material
13 July 2017
That's the theme of the new Know How/Show How semester, initiated by Studio Komplekt, where artists from different spheres acquire know-how in a new genre after just one week with experts in the field. -
Introduction in Contemporary Art: First-Person
5 June 2017
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Bottom-up
27 April 2017
text Natalia Ivanova
If the bottom-up cultural development strategy already means something, you should definitely continue scrolling - Peter Jenkinson and Sheila Wright are the lightest bulbs in the field of cultural management who share a piece of experience with us on May 11 and May 15. -
ABCD of the book cover
16 March 2017
text Natalia Ivanova
The covers on this page are the best for 2016 according to the Academy of British Cover Design or ABCD. If you feel the heavy air of authority, stay with us a bit more: these awards are actually some fresh air that the publishing needs to breathe freely. -
A Volume of Light
23 February 2017
Young photographer Yana Lozeva is pointing her lens at contemporary Bulgarian art and the result is the new 150-page magazine Svema which captures the light in our culture in different perspectives as seen by our brightest authors and artists.
