Screen arts
Angela: Ulrike, would you briefly explain to our readers what is your professional field? …
On play as a worldview, a path to empathy and reaching out for the Other. Play as a space to discover the beauty of …
Czechoslovak filmmakers were sensitive to surrealist cinematography, but the avant-garde blossomed decades later. Among the most striking feature films with a surrealist modus are …
On December 5th, the Gallery Synthesis opened the photo exhibition Construction Troops by Garo …
In Tim Burton’s extraordinary world, the fantastic, the humorous, and the beautiful are inseparable from horror, or rather a celebration of unusual life forms. …
Conversation with Tonislav Hristov – director of the film The Good Driver …
Fine arts
Often, when we analyse our art directions, we “close” them only in national terms – “Bulgarian style” and “native art” are typical examples of …
Kyllikki Zacharias is author of a dissertation on the Russian avant-garde and Symbolism, focusing on the work of Mikhail Vrubel. Since 2009 she has …
Throughout its over one-hundred-and-eighty-year history, photography has had a complex and contradictory relationship with painting. In contrast, it has always been close to literature …
Conversation of Irina Genova with Damyan Damyanov Damyan Damyanov is a famous name in …
On 4th and 5th November 2022, at the Belgrade University, the conference ‘Southeast European …
Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanov, Nina &Vale.’NinaVale’ are visual artists from Paris and Sofia who for decades have served as an example for exhibition …
Music
The Bulgarian public’s meetings with Chinese arts and culture are most often held in …
Parsifal (1882) was the last musical and stage work of Richard Wagner (1813–1883). The author’s libretto of the composer is inspired mostly by an …
The Manuscripts, Old Printed Books, Rare and Valuable Editions collection is part of the structured collections of the Library at the Saglasie 1869 Community …
Between 3 and 15 August 2023, 11 day and evening performances of the play The Story of the Seagull and the Gang of Tomcats …
On June 8, 2023, at the China Cultural Center in Sofia, the Chinese musical tradition Ou Yue was presented, literally: “music of the bowls”, …
Among the highlights of the extremely rich and diverse program of the 54th edition of the Sofia Music Weeks International Festival, held under the …
Theatre
This year’s edition of the Drumev Theatre Festival held in the town of Shumen is actually the second after the COVID-19 pandemic, which has …
Georgi Gospodinov’s texts carry a strong contemporary theatricality. And here we are talking not only about his dramatic works (so far, he has two …
The very recent performance of BITEF Theatre, The Ability of Birds to Have Fun within the framework of the Pierrot 2023 puppet festival in …
Every four years, Prague transforms into a huge theatre scene that brings together scenographers, designers, directors, artists and audiences from around the world. The …
On June 10, the 31st edition of the International Theatre Festival Varna Summer (June 1–10, 2023) ended with the bright dance performance “Passion” by …
I find it particularly important to comment on the production of Anton Strashimirov’s novel “Horo” at the National Theatre for several reasons. First, on …
Architecture
An international conference on Bulgaria, Ukraine in European History was held on 18–19 June 2018 in Sofia, on the occasion of the centenary since …
A congress of Thracology was first held in Sofia, in 1972, coinciding with the founding of the Institute of Thracian Studies, BAS, now within …
The International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) was created in 1994. Traditionally, ‘intellectual history’ is interpreted as an identification and analysis of ‘intellectual traditions, …
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg now impresses with its architectural scale of spacious boulevards, gardens and lakes, with the vast areas of …
The Sixth International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication (ICTVC) themed Discussing Priorities / Developing a Field was held in July 2016, in Thessaloniki, …