Programata

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good Design competition encourages innovation in companies investing in design for 13 years. This year with the record 222 participating products and services, and 28 awards.

For the seventh time Soho invites the connoisseurs of functional and beautiful design products on 3 and 4 December from 10:00 to 19:00. The address is 4 Iskar Str.

Painting, sculpture, graphics and drawings - 52 works from the past two centuries we can buy at the auction of the Rakursi Auction House.

Day after the opening we climb the stairs to the Warehouse on Benkovksi to see the "plastic" exhibition. On the exit we already are phoning to the author Vulka Parusheva to ask how something so exciting is made of ... nothing.

In the last lecture for this year of the course Introduction to Contemporary Art we will learn more about collecting art.

In another lecture of the course Introduction to Contemporary Art the philosopher Stanimir Panayotov will present two of the latest trends in art and theory - speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy.

Discussion for the urban monuments.

A few months ago started the initiative KvaRTal - to enliven the area locked between the boulevards Dondukov, Maria Luisa, Slivnitsa and Vasil Levski.

Six artists from Finland are opening cabinets filled with visual interpretations of Bulgarian proverbs. The exhibition is called Cabinets of Wisdom and is opened from November 18 to November 27 at the corner of Shishman str. and Gurko Blvd., 17:00-22:00.

In the late 70s in the home of Orlin Dvoryanov started the annual closed thematic meetings of the group Kukuv den on topics which were ideological taboo at that time.

This course of lectures comment on various aspects of connection between the artistic production and the social factors that shape it.

In 2009 he moved to New York with his wife and continue his career at Blue Sky Studios, where he worked on the Ice Age, Rio, Peanuts, Epic and Ferdinand the Bull. Several months ago, he returned to Bulgaria and created the studio for games Hach and Paint.

We're leaving in silence. Nobody asks if we felt the same, because the exhibition of Nasimo and Urban Creatures had just told us something in a lenguage that each of us understands. We're going out of the dark to say: There is Light, go see her.

Lecture for the abstract painting with a focus on the work of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.