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.

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.

Italian artist Valentina Sciarra found creative freedom in Sofia

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.

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."

The artist Alla Georgieva and her way to explain to herself what happened amidst the ongoing trauma.

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.

Krassimir Terziev has witnessed all the different processes in Bulgarian contemporary art since the 1990s, has been an active participant in them, and to this day is an artist from whom we can still expect interesting new ideas.

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.

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have been exploring modern ruins with their cameras for years and have noticed that what leads to development is also the cause of destruction.

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

In "Black Box" Phelia Barouh creates very personal, intimate and sensual black and white portraits of people in different constellations – families, couples, lovers, colleagues, friends, pets…

Elena Nazarova says that, ever since she can remember, she has been drawn to the visual arts, and she feels lucky that, after graduating from the National High School of Applied Arts St. Luka in 2016, she has been able to focus on doing what she loves as a freelance artist.

Boris Pramatarov is an artist with a very distinctive style, a book illustrator for SONM publishing house, and a zine author. And now can also add tattoo artist to the list.

The parallels between Todor Zhivkov and Boyko Borissov have been explored many times in public and journalistic spaces, as well as in art. In his new book He breaks he cuts he spills (Janet 45), photographer Nikola Mihov brings this parallel to a higher level.