The co-creative exhibition project "EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES" explores the current social and political climate in Europe and the idea of a European identity. The focus is on cultural spaces, in particular in southeast and eastern Europe – these are places of diversity.
The exhibition’s title "EVROVIZION" is a construct made of similar and yet still different languages – Eurovisione / Evrovizija / Евровизия – a fusion of potential unities, a free version of potential togetherness. Through interdisciplinary, classical and cross-media artworks, the exhibition aims to reflect on different stories and spaces and to make specific local impulses visible. In close cooperation with regional protagonists and each local art scene, new artistic projects are being added to the exhibition during the course of its tour.
After the presentations in Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Athens, Nicosia and Tbilisi, the exhibition is coming to its sixth station, Varna City Art Gallery. The project has been expanded to include new works by Bulgarian artists Stefka Georgieva and Gery Georgieva. Further local expansion of the exhibition is also planned: Adnan Softić and Johanna Diehl, for example, will be developing new works in close cooperation with local actors.
Artists Gery Georgieva, Stefka Georgieva, Ivana Ivković, Nurtane Karagil, Adnan Softić and Kyriakos Theocharous will be present during the opening ceremony, as will the curators Sanja Kojić Mladenov and Maria Efstathiou. The ceremony will open with a new performance by the artist Ivana Ivković. They will also be available to discuss their work as part of a guided tour on the following day (Saturday at 16:00).
Iskra Prodanova, a performance artist from Varna who is a fellow of the Slavs and Tatars’ international residency programme in Berlin, will co-curate the Pickle Bar performances that are to be presented in Berlin and Varna. Both the residency-mentorship programme and the Pickle Bar installation by the artists’ collective are part of the EVROVIZION project. The integration of the installation into the exhibition creates an open space for local dialogues. The residency is supported by ifa.
Following the exhibition in Varna, a new issue of the EVROVIZION magazine will be published, thus enriching the "archive of the journey". Co-edited by Nevena Valcheva, EVROVIZION.CROSSING VARNA will be dedicated to the presentation of the ever-growing project in Varna and its impact on the city’s cultural identity.
A project by ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, it is being presented in Varna in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Bulgaria and Varna City Art Gallery "Boris Georgiev".
Artists participating in the project EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES:
Nevin Aladağ, Igor Bošnjak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lana Čmajčanin, Johanna Diehl, Stefka Georgieva, Gery Georgieva, Petrit Halilaj, Ivana Ivković, Janine Jembere, Nurtane Karagil, Nika Kutateladze, Vladimir Miladinović, Henrike Naumann, Selma Selman, Emilija Škarnulytė, Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Softić, Kyriakos Theocharous, Maria Tsagkari.
Curators: Sabina Klemm, Sanja Kojić Mladenov
Local curatorial team: Varna City Art Gallery
Local co-editor of the VARNA magazine: Nevena Valcheva
Fellow of the Pickle Bar residency: Iskra Prodanova
Friday, 30.05.2025 at 18:00: The opening begins with a performance by the artist Ivana Ivković
Saturday, 31.05.2025 at 16:00: Guided tour through the exhibition with artists and curators present
Event language: Bulgarian and English
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More information: http://www.varnacityartgallery.com
With over 20 touring exhibitions currently travelling across the globe and with its diverse event programmes on contemporary art, the ifa links the German art scene with internationally active cultural creators and forms cooperations and networks. The projects, many of which were developed in co-creation with local partners, cover the various disciplines of modern and contemporary fine arts – from current themes in architecture, photography and design to Bauhaus and monographic exhibitions such as Rosemarie Trockel or Marcel Odenbach. These projects generate local meeting platforms and allow international perspectives on topics of global relevance. The ifa also provides loan exhibits to interested museums.
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