site.bta Bulgarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale Opens Officially on May 7

The Bulgarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale will officially open, on May 7 at the Tiziano Hall in Venice, with a performance of one of the creators of the project, Gery Georgieva, the Bulgarian pavilion team at the Biennale said.

Bulgaria will participate in the 61st International Biennale Arte in Venice with the project The Federation of Minor Practices, curated by Martina Yordanova and created by Veneta Androva, Gery Georgieva, Maria Nalbantova and Rayna Teneva. Desislava Dimova is the Bulgarian pavilion commissioner.

This year the Bulgarian pavilion is conceived as the headquarters of a fictional research laboratory structured within a time frame consisting of past, present and future, which gathers cues from four films and activates them through a video game as a medium for interacting with the audience. In it, visitors are faced with a choice, to navigate between different values and possible directions, and thus participate in the construction of a possible shared political future, the team said.

A total of 99 national participations and 31 collateral events will be presented during the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (Biennale Arte). The 2026 forum In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, will be held from May 9 to November 22.