A selfie of an ecosystem-collective and its multiple practices.

Varna City Art Gallery, May 23rd – June 8th, 2024
The exhibition is part of the program of the Forum for Contemporary Art BUNA vol.2 "The Nature of Relations"

Curator Iara Boubnova

Participating artists: Luchezar Boyadzhiev, Nedko Solakov, Pravdolub Ivanov, Mariela Gemisheva, Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev, Maria Nalbantov, Aksinia Peicheva, Kiril Prashkov, Sofia Grancharova, Stefan Nikolaev, Radostin Sedevchev, Martin Penev, Dimitar Solakov

The thesis of this project is that an art-ecosystem relies as much on the balance between the shared artistic interests, priorities and respect for the other/others, as on the ability to find yourself within the whole – both the group and the art scene. It depends on the ability to control your own frustrations of career, age, and competition from both without and within; to develop and maintain the ability to see oneself and one’s practice as a point where are concentrated both the concreteness of the ego, the Self, as well as the entirety of the complex and delicate ecosystem of interrelations with other art scenes and groups, with colleagues, friends, and partners both from here and there – all around the world.

The Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia presents

“Video Europe for all” – a display of diversity in public space

Opening - 23. 04. 2018, Monday, 17:00 - 00:00

image: Aneta Mona-Chsa & Lucia Tkachova, Try again. Fail again. Fail better. video, 2011, 7 min. 57 sec.

The project “Video Europe for all” benefits art in the Sofia underpass. It presents a series of projections of video art works of leading artists who were born and/or live in various European countries. In the underpass in front of the “Tsarevets” building on Eagle’s Bridge in Sofia, in a specially arranged space surprises and challenges, beauty and thought, politics and romantics are awaiting you; a different and controversial Europe is there to be seen – rich in stories, cultures, individuals, opinions…

June 15-19, 2011

e-flux has been invited to develop a special project for the Kopfbau during Art Basel. The Kopfbau (head building) is the oldest building in the Messeplatz complex, slated for demolition later this year. In response to this invitation, e-flux developed a constellation of projects situated somewhere between exhibitions of art and the concrete forms of sociality encountered in everyday life. Conceived as an independent universe with its own bar, hotel, shops, admissions, and so forth, this project operates in parallel, and as the inverse to the neighboring art fair: operating during alternative hours and in surprising and often paradoxical ways, and ranging in scope from the educational to playfully predatory and mercantile. Its component parts draw on a wide circle of institutions, artists, curators, and writers who have been involved with various e-flux projects over the past several years and comprise seven discrete projects, including:

In the "Temporary Sales Zone" ICA–Sofia presents itself as an association formed by the collaboration of like-minded professionals in “Unmaking Dan” (2010), a video of a collective performance made by Kalin Serapionov. ICA–Sofia also showcases GastARTbeiter (2000) by Luchezar Boyadjiev, one of its founding members. This panoramic print navigates through the complex conditions of existence for the contemporary artist in Bulgaria – accepted as an artistic security and market commodity but only beyond the borders of his home country.

The Year of Bulgaria in the Russian Federation

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia
The State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO
The Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia

In collaboration with Forum Bulgaria-Russia

Present the exhibition

From Ideology to Economy. Contemporary Bulgarian Art 20 years later

October 9^th – 25^th, 2009, Opening: Thursday, October 8^th 2009, 5 pm in The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow, 21 Tverskaya Street

Curators: Iara Boubnova and Maria Vassileva

The History in Present Tense project aims to engage the problematic of the emerging civil society in its complex manifestations and interactions with the outside world. The project strongly believes that in the neo-capitalist society visual art could be the most visible, most critical, yet independent and flexible agent.

Supported by ERSTE Foundation, Vienna.

This is a project by < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz; University of J. E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem; [BLOK] – Local base for cultural refreshment, Zagreb; The Blue House Foundation, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia and NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts, Milano.

The event is part of the cultural program on the ocasion of the celebration of 120 Years of Sofia University entitled "The Seven Arts visit the Sofia University".

November 7th – December 3rd 2006
Sofia Art Gallery

"Gostilnica Rimskata Stena" (Roman Wall Pub), Sofia
May 28 - 31, 2004

ATA Centre for Contemporary Art, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia, 2002, curators Iara Boubnova, Georg Scholhammer

ICA Sofia at The Municipal Gallery Rousse, Rousse, Bulgaria, 2001, curator Iara Boubnova

ICA – Sofia/National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, 1999 (curator Iara Boubnova)

National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; ArtExpo Foundation, Bucharest; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Art Box, Kavala, Greece; Contemporary Art Center of Larissa, Larissa, Greece, 1999
(curator Andre Rouille) (C)

Recipes – New Iconographic Manual
Curator Maria Vassileva
Institute of Contemporary art, Sofia, 1999

Luchezar Boyadjiev
Small Talk 1
First Exhibition in ICA – Sofia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, October 11, 1998