Moving poster workshop with Paul Voggenreiter, part of FIG. 3 - Festival for Illustration and Graphics

Site-specific installation by Alina Papazova in Depoo gallery

In recent years, Synthesis Gallery has been restoring the fragmented and poorly documented history of photography in Bulgaria

The Chinese illustrator Zhigang Zhang captures the emotions of the crowd

A site-specific installation by Bayr(y)am Bayr(y)amali at KO-OP

In the heart of photographer and computer engineer Tsvetelina Dimitrova, art and technology pulse in synch 

Krasimira Butseva and Julian Chehirian talk about the double exhibition The Neighbours, the product of many years of research on communist-era repressions

The celebrated duo of Bulgarian war journalism talks about Ukraine, Syria and why honest reporting matters most

With his two ambitious projects, the artist traces people’s innate drive towards fear and violence.

The German author and illustrator of children's book preffers animals for his characters

Swimming Pool's new online platform looks for the connection between art and communities and this month tells us about the main themes of the nomadic biennial Manifesta in Pristina.

The founder of the Heerz Tooya gallery in Veliko Tarnovo and the ARV.I residency in Vishovgrad finds more and more meaning in his work

After nearly a decade in Bulgaria, French artist Mitch Brezounek continues to focus on global and local absurdities

The fellowship of graphic painters Zoran Mishe, Goran Trichkovski, Vasil Angelov, Pavel Tselkoski and Ivan Mateev, or Print Nest, who create their creative "nest" in the heart of the city.

Where everyone has time to read: Stratos Kalafatis on what brings him back to Athos and the importance of photobooks.

Independent printed publications by Bulgarian authors are already numerous enough to be collected in a special physical and digital archive.

With her project under development "Bookmarks" Maria Nalbantova explores reading habits and what the small traces say about the past.

In late February, hundreds of Russian animators joined their Ukrainian counterparts in condemning the war in a collective statement. Just a few days later, "Animators Against War" appeared in Russia – a collective of more than a hundred artists who created a series of short videos whose main message was "No to war."

Aleksey Kulinkovich studied interior design, but for almost ten years he has been working as an illustrator and graphic designer for various advertising companies in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus.

Maria Kinovych is a Ukrainian illustrator. In March, we find her outside Kyiv. After the military attacks began, she left her home in the capital and moved to western Ukraine.

Martina Vacheva's first solo exhibition Sereality (2016) in Sariev Gallery with curator Vera Mlechevska attracted the attention of her colleagues and the public, and it quickly became clear that her work would be popular both in Bulgaria and abroad.

When Mihail Mihailov says that he is about to spend several weeks in complete isolation in Vienna, he is not talking about quarantine. Ever since it was announced in January that the installation There You Are would represent Bulgaria at this year's Venice Biennale, Mihailov has been caught in a whirlwind of media appearances, logistical challenges and deadlines, while his desire to shake off all this noise and focus on real work has only increased.

Stefka Tsaneva's work focuses on culture and organizing cultural events. Although this has always included a wide range of events and genres, her personal passion is contemporary art – looking at it, thinking and writing about it, curating and organizing exhibitions.

Patrick Harjei is an internationally renowned, multidisciplinary illustrator, graphic designer and researcher who we will have the pleasure of listening to and watching live as one of the guests at the one-day symposium at the MELBA 2021 Design Festival

Danila Tkachenko is an award-winning visual artist from Moscow who describes himself as a "composer" of a new reality and explores various consequences of the human quest for a utopian future with documentary photography.

The exhibition Traces of Empires brings together some of his most interesting photographs from around the world.

In Urbex Gaitandjiev films abandoned buildings, underground spaces and facilities, whose present is marked by disrepair.

Denislav Stoychev captures faces and places so naturally that it's easy to forget that there is a foreign presence, a photographer behind them. Photographs of abandoned buildings make up a large part of his archive, although this is far from the only thing that interests him.

Three print editions with different focus that complement and develop our understanding of contemporary dance