Programata

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.

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.