site.btaBerlin Exhibition Explores Bulgaria’s Artistic Ties with Europe

The exhibition “Europe in Bulgaria,” highlighting European artistic movements in Bulgarian art from the Liberation of 1878 to the mid-20th century, will open on March 6 at 7pm Central European Time at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute (BCI) in Berlin, located at Leipziger Str. 114–115, 10117 Berlin. The announcement was made by BCI Berlin to BTA, presenting its programme for March.

Curated by Lyuben Domozevski, the exhibition features works by some of the most significant figures in Bulgarian art, including Nikola Petrov, Nikola Tanev, Sirak Skitnik, Ivan Milev, Ivan Penkov, Bencho Obreshkov, Kiril Tsonev, Vasil Barakov, Anton Mitov, Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova, Nikola Mihaylov and Ivan Nenov.

The invitation to the opening reads: “The exhibition traces the reflections of European artistic movements on Bulgarian post-Liberation art. The dialogue between Bulgaria and Europe during this period was highly dynamic, multifaceted, and continuous. It reveals a complex and tightly interwoven network of connections between individuals, events, artistic centres, trends, works and phenomena. There was an undeniable aspiration among Bulgarian artists to integrate into European art, with a clear awareness and self-confidence that Bulgaria was part of Europe, and that the European path was the path of young Bulgarian art. […] The exhibition constantly intertwines several central themes: the pursuit of modernization, a focus on native subjects, and the question of visible reality and its representation.”

The exhibition catalogue will also be presented during the event, which has free entry.