FOCUS SOCIAL
NINE ELEPHANTS FORUM
December, January, February
a series of lectures, discussions and talks to inspire new ways of working in the city over the upcoming weeks. FORUM is a continuation of t Nine Elephants Art in the City programme where we will dig deeper into the themes, build on partnerships and explore the possibilities for better and meaningful interaction between different actors in the cultural sphere seeking to contribute to the development of the city's potentials and urban communities through art.
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Bulgarian Design Review | А Matter of Image
Dimiter Ilchev, Dora Ivanova, Elena Chergilanova, Iva Ivanova, Martin Grigorov, Nikola Lamburov, Pavel Pavlov, Alexandra Vacheva, Stefani Nedelcheva
Swimming Pool
31 october - 10 november 2024
FOCUS SOCIAL
HERE, WHERE I AM
Yusuf Younes Abdulrahman, Abdulhamid Alsalem, Mohamed Al Arab, Hani Mohamed Idi and Zaid Hamad
15 october - 25 october 2024
The exhibition "Here, where I am" presents the first fruits of the work within the "Photo workshop 66" - a documentary photography workshop for unaccompanied refugee children who migrated to Bulgaria from the Middle East.
Focus Ecologies
NEW CATALOGUE "NEW ECOLOGIES"
presentation
at Swimming Pool
19 september
The 'New Ecologies' catalogue is an archive of the project, but also its continuation. It contains texts and materials by the participants, and includes essays conversations that were part of the public program, a.o. Dimiter Kenarov, Kosmotechnika (Konstantin Georgiev and Alexander Popov), Andrea Popyordanova and Francesca Castagnetti, Association "For the Earth" and others.
Focus Ecologies
Ecologies of Prehod
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Katarina Burin, Sam Ghantous, Elitza Koeva, Manar Moursi
Swimming Pool
01 august - 24 september 2024
Ecologies of Prehod engages with sites of ruination in Bulgaria through sculpture, installation, sound, and moving-image work.
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NINE ELEPHANTS
art interventions in the urban space
Various locations in the city and Swimming Pool
11 – 21 July 2024
DEVET SLONA (Nine Elephants) is a summer art-in-the-city program that will take place for the first time between 11 and 21 July 2024 in Sofia. Together with artists, authors, researchers, experts and residents, we will tell and share the city in a new and extraordinary way, using the calm of the summer weeks and transporting ourselves to different neighbourhoods in the city.
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Lobster and shrimp on my plate, I need my pockets so fat they inflate. Vol.3: Transportation
An exhibition by Robin Phoenix Whitehouse and Todor Rabadzhiyski
16 May – 27 June 2024
“Lobster and Shrimp on My Plate, I need my pockets so fat they inflate” is a durational project that started three years ago and delves into the culture and changing economy associated with lobsters – whether it be food for the rich or poor, eaten to announce a celebration or dissected with cutlery before another business call. In the third showcase of their ongoing project at Swimming Pool, artists Robin Phoenix Whitehouse (UK) and Todor Rabadzhiyski (BG) are considering how the Lobster has been reinvented through the ages, and how marketing has portrayed a certain image of the lobster that is becoming an analogy for the current time.
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The Vigilant Writers
An exhibition of Aleksandra Chaushova
4 April – 9 May 2024
In the exhibition “The Vigilant Writers,” Aleksandra Chaushova blends works from several of her series, each with its own stories and protagonists, into a generalized image – that of the vigilant but unreliable writer. He is middle-aged, from different eras, simultaneously executioner and victim, and writes history as it is created, or creates it as he writes it, infecting reality with fiction.
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SOFIA ART MAP 2024
reviewed and added locations
Sofia Art Map returns with a new 6th edition, with seven new art locations.
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The Library of Swimming Pool