ART BOOK

Civil position

Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti
ICA Gallery, Sofia

For Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti performance is an appeal for active engagement with reality. The works selected for their exhibition at the ICA Gallery, engage with collective and individual identities formed under capitalism within the contexts of local and global politics and development of technology. These are viewed through the prism of contemporary gender theory and practice. In their performances, Rossa and Mavromatti often go through actual physical pain to support their message.  
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After the flight

Curator: Iara Boubnova
ICA Gallery

On April 12th 2011 the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human flight in outer space. Yuri Gagarin visited Bulgaria on May 25th 1961 – that was the second country he visited after the flight in the course of his “world tour”. It is in Sofia during this trip that the famous photograph of Gagarin holding a white dove was taken. This photograph became the source image for the Pablo Picasso drawing/serigraph/lithograph [...]

Concert - performance
STROMORCHESTER
(Cologne, Munich),
Surprise Symphony

Art Today Association 
Sklada +

Not to awake, but to surprise the audience, this was the real purpose of Joseph Haydn´s Symphony No. 94 G-Dur, composed during his stay in London in the year 1791.
220 years later and amplified by 220 volts the 1st German Stromorchester suprises with it´s "Symphony with the Symphony-with-the
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АВС,
Contemporary Belgian Art


Curators: Dominique Païni and Pascale Pronnier 
Sofia Art Gallery   

The exhibition ABC. Contemporary Belgian Art is part of the intercultural and educational project A Digital Take on Contemporary Art. It will be presented at the Sofia City Art Gallery, simultaneously with the exhibition Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts at the National Academy of Art.

This is the first event of its kind, introducing the Bulgarian public to two fascinating and highly creative art scenes which are representative of contemporary artistic processes. The one scene is Belgium, [...]
Antistatic 4
Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance

LIGNA present:

The new man

The New Man is a performance without actors and stage. There is nothing to see except for the activity of the visitors. They are listening to a radio play that not only deals with the four aesthe­tic positions mentioned above, but proposes gestures and movements according to the different blueprints of the new man. But the audience is not listening to the same things at the same time. It is split up into four groups. For fifteen minutes each group is listening to one of these posi­tions, then their program is changing and their role is transferred to another group. In the [...]