Programata

Artist Kalin Serapionov makes video, pierces walls to pass a neon sign in the gallery corridor, makes a self portrait in a wig and invents love stories at an exhibition. Now he enters the City gallery with a cake tray to put the icing on a video project that began 20 years ago - with two other videos around artists eating first soup, then main course. Now the time for dessert has finally come and you are also invited - the shooting of the performance The Dessert (with the Cherry On the Cake) will be on Feb 14 between 11:00 and 18:00 in the City Gallery, Sofia.

A lecture about the Neue Sachlichkeit art trend, part of the current exhibition at the Sofia City Art Gallery - on January 31st at 18:00.

The Bulgarian pavilion at the biennale will greet us with How We Live - an installation with curator Vera Mlechevska and artists Radka Bukova and Lazar Lyutakov. If you're curious about all the other projects in the competition, they will be shown in Sredets gallery on January 23rd between 11:00-13:00; 14:00-16:00.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designer and architect Elia Nedkov, jeweler Nilkolay Sardamov and poet and culturologist Anna Alexandra join talents in a new project called Sfera (Bul. - sphere).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.