Between July 7-10 OAF was presented by the festival director of Night/Plovdiv Victor Yankov in the Workshop on cultural sustainability and social economy - “Let’s Participate” in the current European Capital of Culture – Wrozlaw / Poland.
Open Arts Foundation was part of The Seminar – Emerging Space organized by Fai-Ar and In Situ Network in Marseille, France (23 – 25.03.2016). Victor Yankov – The Festival Director of Night/Plovdiv presented the organization at the three-day seminar.
Open Art Foundation was part of the international meeting “IN SITU meets ECoCs. Interactive workshop for a shared European public space” on 03.03.2016 in Brussels. Vesselina Sarieva, director of OAF, presented the organization at the meeting.
In September 2015, Bauersachs Foundation and Industry Watch Group Ltd. in partnership with the Department of Applied and Institutional Sociology at University of Plovidv and Open Arts Foundation conducted a study focused on the economic effects of services that have no commercial character. Case study of the survey was the cultural festival Night/Plovdiv, 2015. The methods used in the research are valuable for a wide range of users, including cultural operators, grant beneficiary, donors, media and active citizens.
In the early days of 2016 we offer you a flashback to our last year's activities and a small sneak peek of what's next Stay with us for another 12 exciting months!
The last pavilion for 2015 is entitled "Hills as forms of urban life" and suggests a variety of temporal, cultural, social, demographic and event layers of knowledge and discussion of the indisputable symbol of Plovdiv.
This year’s edition ‘Curators’ Talks’ is dedicated to the figure of curators – their role in contemporary art, the different dimensions of curatorship and the intersections with other fields.
The special publication to Focus Bulgaria at viennacontemporary 2015 is already available!
Along with the presentation of the work, "0" will be held an international conference. Its goal is to continue naturally the platform concept and objectives of the project, to create vision of views and sharing of experiences.
As culmination of the four years -long art Project 0 on 7 June in Plovdiv will be the opening of the large-scale installation - doubled mirror wall in the area of over 50 square meters and a mass nearly six tons, which will intersect perpendicularly Zlatarska Street in the iconic Kapana Quarter. The author of the project, the artist Kiril Kouzmanov, implements the idea in collaboration with the curator Vladiya Mihaylova and Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv.
Vesselina Sarieva, director of the Open Arts Foundation was invited to share her experience in the cultural sphere on a conference organized by the Goethe -institut on 26 and 27 November 2013 in Berlin.
