As part of the program of the FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion for 2021 in Sofia was presented the exhibition “A thing that looks like another thing"
The eventual manifestations of the phase interconnect into a visual environment themes and ideas characteristic of Bulgarian art, presented by the works of the announced authors and their artistic practices, such as: political opposition, institutional deficiency, institutional critique, models of institutionalization, individualism, the relation between name and institution and between body and institution, instrumentalization, operationality, expansion of the body, the body as instrumental and political entity, problems of representation, the oppositions “outside” – “inside”, “community” – “person”, tension and fragility of borders and last but not least – labor.
4alga Punk will showcase the work of two of the most interesting visual artist in Bulgaria and abroad.
"We buy old stoves, washing machines, water heateeeeeers." This is how Sunday mornings sound, in Plovdiv, in belcanto.
Aaron Roth's current artistic product does not allow a loose invasion of the visitor's eye. To observe its pieces in detail any visitor is demanded to open a beads curtain – covering the open stage of FLUCA distinguishing it as an enclosed space.
BGx.BG медийна храна by the net art pioneer Dirk Paesmans will be presented in Plovdiv as part of the DZHADZHA programme.
The hermetic space of the Fluca container, designed to serve the transfer of developed industry goods on a global scale, will be turned into a place for an experiment inspired by archaic construction techniques with organic materials. Between rational and poetic, concrete and abstract, the indeterminate and the exact. A site-specific work by Austrian female artist Karine Fauchard and the Austria based artist of Bulgarian origin Lazar Lyutakov. Specially created for the space of Fluca – Austrian Cultural Pavilion, the exhibition will be their 4th collaborative project.
A conversation between Veselina Sarieva and Rene Beekman
We are opening FLUCA 2021 with a party of archetypes, metamorphoses and modifications rooted in mythology. The zoo where we will meet has been created by Rosie Eisor, Alina Papazova and Alexandra Georgieva - sa6ettu.
The LIVING WITH ART workshop with Christian Kaspar Schwarm on the "Wonder of Collecting" is our last event of the spring session of the Collectors’ Forum.
In 2021, in the post-pandemic situation of an art system in crisis, Collectors’ Forum is taking action to expand its traditional format on a thematic, structural and temporal level, followed by the intention to provide participants on the Bulgarian art scene with support for adaptation.
In 2021, in the post-pandemic situation of an art system in crisis, Collectors’ Forum is taking action to expand its traditional format on a thematic, structural and temporal level, followed by the intention to provide participants on the Bulgarian art scene with support for adaptation.
