Bobbina Visual Program 2024/2025
Bobbina Cultural Space is dedicated to empowering young and emerging artists across visual arts, experimental music, and performance by providing a supportive and inclusive creative environment. It plays a key role in Sofia’s contemporary art scene, fostering interdisciplinary projects, collaboration, and dialogue among diverse artistic micro-communities both within the city and beyond. As part of […]
AUTOMATIC GALLERY
The S-Z Foundation supported the opening of AUTOMATIC Gallery: the first pay-by-card entry, open 24/7 gallery for contemporary digital art in Sofia. https://automatic.gallery/. AUTOMATIC Gallery is a new space dedicated to the presentation of digital art with automated access and operation. The organizer and curator of this extraordinary venture Venelin SHURELOV is part of the team […]
BALKAN STORIES. Exhibition by Kyril Buhowski
Curation and sound environment by Georgi P. Pavlov5 – 15 November, 2025Opening: 5 November, Wednesday, 6 – 9 pm The Balkans, much like love, are an endless paradox. They are oversaturated with history and culture, yet still lack a stable identity. It is a place that simultaneously pushes us away and keeps pulling us back. […]
BEDTIME STORIES
Zhanina Marinova has been developing in the last 2 years her personal project INTERSTICE which focuses on the idea of the time and space between events in life and the gaps and cracks which are fulfilling our existence. INTERSTICE is divided in separate parts in forms of solo exhibitions, site-specific installations and public interventions. Each […]
WHAT I WANTED TO WHISPER
The installation by NISHKA Collective is inspired by the shared stories of thirteen women who have undergone early miscarriage. But this fairy tale is not about the loss – it is about sharing, and the power to continue. The installation touches that fragile moment when we free up the sadness to go, opening a place […]
IS THE PAST OURS
The third open discussion was dealing with questions about the legacy of socialism, memory in the urban environment and the role of art and civil dialogue in rethinking the past. The event took place on the site of the art installation by Krasimir Terziev “Between the Past That Is About To Happen and the Future That Has Already […]
CARE AND HEALING
The exhibition Care and Healing is the final part of the trilogy curated by Galina Dimitrova (Fear and Love and Shame and Guilt, 2024) that examines contemporary understandings and reflections on these primal human feelings and relationships. The exhibition features six artists from different countries and cultural contexts: Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Belgium, and Bosnia and […]
WHAT CONNECTS US
What connects us, Arsenal Sofia, 24.April – 22.June The exhibition, What Connects Us, is a kind of ‘still frame’, an attempt—without claiming to be comprehensive—to capture contemporary trends in the society-food-art chain. The attention of the artists in the exhibition, What Connects Us, is largely directed towards the ‘symbolic’ potential of food, to its ability to be […]
BRIGHT ROOM
Bright Room aims to show and comment on female sexuality and its possibilities not by bringing to light the clichés of nudity, but by focusing on the paradox of the intimate and the public that forms subjectivity. In a world awash with the endless fetishization of the female body, Bright Room attempts to question the popular […]
ABSTRACT RESIDENCY
Exhibition in Depoo, 2.4.-17.4.2025 ABSTRACT RESIDENCY is a continuation of Visionary’s work in presenting foreign abstract artists in Bulgaria in an annual residency program, which started in 2022 with Yannick Martin`s (FR) residency in Sofia, and then continued with the collaborative work of Visionary and the curator Atanas Levakov (KOREN residency, Bov village) in 2023 […]