Art news from ‘Bulgaria’

RAKURSI Art Gallery, Sofia: ADDITIONALLY

Valentin Angelov, Angel With A Fish, oil on canvas, 60/45 cm ADDITIONALLY 13 December 2011 – 3 January 2012 VALENTIN ANGELOV painting Valentin Angelov was born in1961 in Sofia. 1987 – Graduated from the National Academy for Fine Arts – Sofia, specialty graphic design. He works in the field of graphic, advertising, illustration and painting. [...]

Open Arts, Plovdiv: BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE

Open Arts Foundation Presents BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE Host: Hannah Hurtzig, „Mobile Academy“- Berlin December 7, 2011, 19:00 h artnewscafé, 38 Otets Paisiy Street, Plovdiv, Bulgaria With the kind support of Ghoete-Institut, Sofia The creative saloon/showroom? “Mobile academy” develops different formats of scientific meditation: theatre installations for representing memory, space and rhetoric, live [...]

ROTOR, Graz: BLACK SEA CALLING

Artist-in-Residence Exchange Programme BLACK SEA CALLING is an Artist-in-Residence Exchange Programm between 9 art institutions based in countries around the Black Sea and 5 art institutions in  Austria in 2012, with a concluding exhibition and publication in 2013. Visual artists living and working in Austria are invited to apply for a one-month-residency in one of [...]

Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv: A hole in the parquet

Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv presents: A hole in the parquet Sasho Stoicov December 20, 2011 – February 3, 2012 Opening: December 20, 2011, 19:00h, Sariev Gallery Sasho Stoicov’s solo exhibition “A hole in the parquet” at Sariev Gallery in December 2011 calls our attention and introduces this not so well-known, but emblematic Bulgarian artist from the [...]

Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv: Subjective Geography

Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv Presents: Vikenti Komitski Subjective Geography November 15 – December 17, 2011 Opening: November, 15, 2011, Tuesday, 19:00 h „Subjective Geography” is the first solo exhibition of this young artist recognizable with his casual style and promising presence in the Bulgarian art scene at Sariev Gallery. The concept of the exhibition and the [...]

Sofia City Art Gallery: Kontakt Sofia

“Kontakt” was founded at the end of 2004 as an association, represented by: BCR, Česká spořitelna, Erste Bank Croatia, Erste Bank Hungary, ERSTE Foundation, Erste Group, Slovenská sporiteľňa. Contemporary artworks from countries with similar historical fate are presented in Bulgaria for the first time. The exhibition follows the development of video, performance, conceptual photography, object, [...]

PLOVDIV NIGHT OF MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES: The City & Public Spaces Program

On 17 September, Plovdiv is organizing its seventh consecutive Night of Museums and Galleries. The third of the Night’s three main programs – The City & Public Spaces Program – includes contributions from painters, musicians and interdisciplinary artists whose works will be shown across the streets, squares, parks and hills of Bulgaria’s second largest city. [...]

The Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv: POOR BUT SEXY

Image: Creature de Vin ed Voin Artists: Anton Stoyanov (Berlin), Vikenti Komitski (Sofia), Voin de Voin (Berlin), Lazar Lyutakov (Vienna), Loubri (Sofia), Rada Boukova (Paris) 17 September 2011 – 30 October 2011 Opening: Plovdiv Night of Museums & Galleries – 17 September 2011 Parallel program: Presentation of Basso Magazine (Berlin), artnewscafe In a TV interview [...]

0GMS, Sofia: Мeet everyone at once

0GMS Inaugurates 0GMS Projects with Мeet everyone at once, start an artist-run-space Smaranda Corbeanu Olivier Hölzl Vasilena Gankovska Steven Guermeur Danius Kesminas & The Histrionics Bernd Oppl son:DA Kamen Stoyanov Martin Sturm Liddy Scheffknecht & Armin Wagner Opening: Thursday, September 8th, 2011, 7 p.m. Lyuben Karavelov str. 12., app. 11., Sofia

International weekend: Milen Stankov

Expired series is inspired by the old “expired” films. I use ORWO and Agfa films which were used 15-20 years ago. I like the mixture of the scars of time and the absorbed light in emulsion. The result is mixture of past and present. I try to combine these factors and let myself to the surprise of [...]

International weekend: Kostas Bassanos

The age of solitude (2005), 2.36 min dvd projection, audio, 200x300cm courtesy Ileana Tounta Gallery and the artist. From Here to Eternity (2007), cardboard boxes, slideprojection transfered to DVD, audio, courtesy Ileana Tounta Gallery and the artist. Photo: Panos Kokkinias The Crows (from The Collection of Monuments of Catastrophes) (2007), plaster (pallet cast), ink. (installation [...]

International weekend: Mariela Gemisheva

  Controversial enough I think of myself as a fashion designer who is not interested in the fashionable… I believe that the clothes should not be consumed. They are not just a function of the market and the aesthetics of the dominant trend, which are only a prerequisite condition. I use clothes as a basis [...]

The Power Plant

The Power Plant

Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová, still from "Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Let’s Conclude)," 2008.* Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe Co-produced by The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Alberta 1 July–5 September 2011 Opening: 30 June, 8–11 PM The Power Plant 231 Queens Quay West Toronto, Ontario M5J [...]