Bulgarian Art Archives

The meaning behind the Artist’s books

March 29, 2023

The meaning behind the Artist’s books “An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Books are one of the older forms of sharing information, ideas, adventures and understandings of the world. The body of books and the printing techniques that developed around the development of book publishing have been known since ancient times to mankind and have never stopped developing through the ages. The examples are hundreds of thousands of different models, variants, formats, principles and contents. The …

PINK CLOUD – installation by Rada Yakova, 2021, steel mesh, mixed media

October 27, 2021

see #PinkCloudBlast from 30th of October in Regional history museum, Ruse, as part of the traveling exhibition “WHY IN THE WORLD BULGARIAN ART?!” The pink cloud is an artistic expression of the thirst for positivism. It is full of the dreams of each one of us, with our desire to be recognized, to be seen and part of the big great. It carries all these longings and is ready to explode above our heads at any moment, flooding us with …

Party Animals by Iliyana Kancheva now in DEPOO

July 19, 2021

Depoo Gallery & ЗА {обичайте} София presents: THE DARK IS NEVER TOO MUCH (series of exhibitions in which the artists will welcome the public in close look up with the art) The firs exhibition of this series is the collection by ILIYANA KANCHEVA – Party Animals, which first was presented on the 5new Auction The Secrets.The exhibition in Depoo Gallery, in Sofia can be seen between 20 – 27 July, 2021Meet the artists on the Vernissage on June 20, 18:00-20:00 …

URBAN CULTURE

June 23, 2021

– All the things you never expect to happen to you This month’s 5new auction is dedicated to urban culture and in order to make it properly multifaceted, we have invited five authors, strongly connected with the city and its cultural oddities. From architecture, through collage, to urban cycling life, in search of entertainment, captured moments of social relations, to the Asian anthropo and zoomorphic chaos – all this is the urban culture that is served to us on a …

The Secrets

May 15, 2021

The Secrets – “I know one thing, but please don’t tell anyone!” With this month’s auction, we decided to challenge the truth. The secret is not the absence of truth, but it’s unspoken, silent presence. Probably we have all experienced this breath, which tells us that there is something tiny or big, always silent, always unveiled. Today we live in a world of dreams, illusions, ready-made and filtered images, set situations and powdered mythologies, which are served to us from …

Party Animals

May 15, 2021

А collection that deals only with the most important things! During an artistic project, in the special year 2020, Iliyana Kancheva finds herself in the wilderness of the Black Sea beach, out of season. It is this strange quiet mood and the absent usual nightlife for this popular beach between Cocoa Beach and Hotel Kuban, attracts the attention and the lens of Kancheva. The paradox of the place, without the tourist influx, is captured in a total of 12 frames. …

ILLUMINATION – the highlight of colors

April 21, 2021

Inspired by Pantone.com palette color for 2021 – ILLUMINATING (colorN13-0647) Auction starts on 25th of April and will end on 9th of May. Viewing days are open from 22nd of April. “Illumination” is a colorful, fresh auction, inspired by the color of 2021, determined by colorist experts from Panton.com. You can check who they are and why they are important here through this link. We saw the clear, strong yellow and fell in love with its message. The original color …