Context AiR Plovdiv – News from Home, Anne Fehres & Luke Conroy
Digital Collage on a Facade, 2022 OPENING: August 14, Sunday between 7 pm and 10 pm The work will be on display for visitors within the next few months until the end of 2022 Location: Back of the BNT-Regional Television Centre Plovdiv building, 8 Nayden Gerov St, at Sahat Tepe hill . NEWS FROM HOME […]
Context AiR Plovdiv – A City Portrait of Plovdiv, Simon Van Parys
sculptural installation , 2022 OPENING 28 July, Thursday, at 6 pm The Belgian artist Simon Van Parys offers to the local Plovdiv community an interpretation of their city, through the eyes of the newcomer. During his residency he tried to understand what defines this city. The installation he builds to create the city portrait is […]
The Last Sunset – an immersive dance-theatre performance
“The Last Sunset”: an immersive dance-theatre performance directed by Kosta Karakashyan, Antonia Georgieva (Studio Karakashyan, Bulgaria), and Carlos Aller (Frantics Dance Company, Germany). The Last Sunset supports Greenpeace’s campaign to ban advertising and sponsorship by fossil fuel companies. We are proud to be among the Co-sponsors of the event series. Link to facebook event.
Daria Pugachova at Context AiR
Our first supported project from our SZ-Contact series is Ukrainian artist Daria Pugachova’s residency at Context in Plovdiv. Daria Pugachova is an artist, performer and art-activist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. During 2013–2019 she played drums in the female trio Panivalkova. After musicians split up Daria dived into a field of contemporary art with her visual […]
A tour of “The Curtain” by Krasimira Butseva
Kathrin takes us on a tour of the final installation in Malak Izvor.
Opening of History is in the Present by Krasimira Butseva
We were happy to host the opening party for our open call winner Krasimira. Thank you to all the lovely visitors who made this first event at the foundation so memorable.
CONTACT with Poiema
The Singer-Zahariev Foundation is proud to support the Poiema art residency in Bregovo – a series of workshops and public events that will enrich the local cultural atmosphere in the most North-western part of Bulgaria. This collaboration is the first within the CONTACT platform – a program soon to be launched by the Singer-Zahariev Foundation […]
Congratulations to Krasimira!
It was not easy to come to a decision, but after some deliberations, the jury decided to award the prize to Krasimira Butseva’s project “The Curtain”. Using contemporary artistic language, Krasimira has thoroughly researched and combined personal, local and historical elements in her work truly bringing “History in the Present”. We are now looking forward […]
Site visit with Krasimira Butseva
It was a rainy day today in the village. But what an interesting one. Krasimira Butseva, shortlisted in out Open Call, came for a site visit. We had a wonderful exchange about so many topics. Art in the UK and Bulgaria, residencies, politics, how to intervene and probably not destroy. Looking forward for many new […]
Site visit with Elenka Nazarova
The first real summer day in the village and a wonderful visitor. Elenka Nazarova, shortlisted in our Open Call, came for a site visit.