SONGS OF RESILIENCE AND RURAL COUNTERPUBLICS – A CURATORIAL TRAJECTORY
In this essay, Katalin Erdődi outlines her curatorial journey from her initial desire to work in urban public space and support site-specifi
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DREAMING IN BULGARIAN
Interview with the photographer Mihaela Aroyo about her long-term project documenting the community of the Bessarabian Bulgarians.
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MEET NINE ELEPHANTS
Можеш ли да си представиш слон? Не, нека са 9 слона, точно в началото на твоята улица, докато се прибираш към къщи?
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ART AND CITY – A FORTHCOMING CONVERSATION
With this text, Viktoria Draganova - editor-in-chief of this magazine, introduces the thematic focus "Art + City".
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A PLACE FOR ALL – FAVOURITE URBAN SPACES THROUGH PLACEMAKING
In this material, Laska Nenova takes us through the history of the placemaking movement, reaching the role it plays nowadays in the...
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ART IN EMPTY SHOPS
In the autumn of 2023, six Bulgarian artists and curator Boyana Dzhikova, by the invitation of the centre for contemporary art CAIRN...
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AN EXAMPLE FROM LONDON – PUBLIC ART AND THE CHANGE OF SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Hester Gartrell explores two examples from East London of the interaction between arts and cultural initiatives, municipal politics and loca
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MARKET OF DESIRE(S)
Read the essay of Boyana Djikova on the potential of showing contemporary art in an urban environment.
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THE CRACKS IN THE SCREENS AND THE EMPTY SQUARES OF PUBLICITY
A text by Vladiya Mihaylova about art in public space and shift within the notions of both ‘art’ and ‘public’.
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NEITHER A CITY, NOR A GARDEN
In the spring and summer of 2023, Andrea Popyordanova and Francesca Castagnetti spent time exploring a particular space in Sofia – Vartopo.
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DOWN THE CANAL
Sofia is rich in rivers, although there are no ships and boats sailing on them. We talked about them one evening with Dimiter Kenarov.
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HOPE IN THE NORTHWEST
Ideas Factory is an organization that has been working in Bulgarian villages for years in order to activate local communities...
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SHELTERS, GARDENS, READING ROOMS – WHEN THERE IS A COMMUNITY
In three consecutive meetings, we talked to representatives of the Sofia Mountaineering Club, the Initiative for the Development of Urban...
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FROM COMMON VALUES TO COMMON SPACES
Common spaces used to be a resource that had an important role for traditional historical societies. For example, the meadow at the outskirt
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SOFIA – PRISTINA – DETROIT
The context of this conversation is the exhibition No Man’s Land, an exhibition by Dessislava Terzieva, which documents interventions in...
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"THE NEIGHBOURS" – THE DRAMATURGY OF MEMORY
A conversation with Krasimira Butseva and Julian Chehirian about their exhibition project "The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945 – 1989)".
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THE POTENTIALS OF PUBLIC ART (PART 2) – STATEMENTS BY ARTISTS, CURATORS AND ACTIVISTS
In the second part of the material about the Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, we talk with artists who participated in the Week
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THE POTENTIALS OF PUBLIC ART (PART 1) – AN INTERVIEW WITH GALINA DIMITROVA
Galina Dimitrova curated this year's edition of the The Week of Contemporary Art 2022 Plovdiv. The Week also caused an unexpected clash ...
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THE BLANK SPACES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
In this interview with Slava Savova and Ivo Strahilov, we discuss the significant changes in cultural heritage protection policies in...
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HOW WE NEGOTIATE THE CITY
Watch the discussion with artists and curators about art in public space and the challenges around it that took place in the frame of...
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