Screen arts
Contemporary Bulgarian documentary cinema, viewed from a few different perspectives, is at high standards. It is both stable in terms of the amount of …
Gripping. Colourful. Many-sided. Surprising. Charming. Funny. Naïve. Frightening. Mysterious. Breath-stopping. Magical. Spectacular. Beautiful. Dangerous. Kind. Unexpected. Swirly. Shining. Lavish. Stopping the heart beating. Different. …
On 1 March, the Synthesis gallery and the Bulgarian National Film Archive launched an exhibit of photographic portraits of Bulgarian actors, taken during the …
The full-length feature film Cat in the Wall (Bulgaria/UK/France) by Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova (production: Actvist 38) surprisingly received the national Golden Rose Debut …
’Europudding’ is a derisive term of the mid-1990s describing well-funded, but commonplace European film …
My friend Zlatin Radev told me once how uneasy he felt while watching a theatrical performance for fears of a gaffe or of a …
Fine arts
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 …
The exhibition is held within the framework of the Restoration of Memory program of the Vaska Emanouilova Gallery. Launched in 2012, the program aims …
Although Mihail Mihaylov’s name did not gain the popularity he deserved for one reason or another, he was among the most important pre-1944 artists …
The intention of the incumbent Turkish authorities to convert Hagia Sophia back into a …
Arosita Art Gallery reopens after two months of nationwide lockdown measures with Slav Suite, a solo exhibition by Nikolay Petkov. His low-profile but persevering …
Music
In the Grande Opera, which, since April this year, has the 40 year old Gustavo Dudamel as its director (a conductor with a shining …
The myth about Pygmalion, the sculptor, has excited humankind for centuries – Pygmalion creates the most beautiful sculpture of a woman, Galatea, and when …
The Contemporary Choreography Classes established in 2014 at the SWU, Blagoevgrad, were oriented towards dance forms that had not been taught academically until then: …
Despite the strong competition offered by other musical events staged simultaneously in Sofia, the 49th edition of Sofia Music Weeks International Festival held on …
Yet another challenge by the performers famous for promoting contemporary music piqued the interest of a numerous audience, this time at Goethe-Institut, Sofia. Highways …
La Bayadère, a masterpiece by Marius Petipa in the rendition of Vesa Tonova, Sofia Opera House’s prima ballerina, was brought to life onstage in …
Theatre
The BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival) took place for a 56th time from 23 …
It is not accidental that Electra permeates intensively the dramaturgy of the first half …
Almost as in a revolutionary manifest, the play Desdemona, performed by Stefan Kirov Drama theatre of Sliven, directed by Petar Denchev, speaks out radical, …
Jean–Baptiste Poquelin, born 400 years ago, also known as Molière, created a few theatre …
The latest premiere of Sofia Theatre, ‘The bitter tears of Petra von Kant’ by Fassbinder, based on his famous play and film (1945–1982) from …
The Bulgarian audience does not meet the art of Jan Fabre, one of the emblematic authors from the afterwar European avant-garde, for the first …
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, …