site.btaKrasimir Terziev's Exhibition "Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II" Opens in Sofia

New sculptures, objects, and a multi-channel video installation created specifically for Cube Gallery – Toplocentrala develop artist Krasimir Terziev's long-standing interest in time as a culturally and politically charged category. They will be on display in the exhibition Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II from December 18 until February 8, 2026, the Gallery said on Thursday.

The team pointed out that Terziev views time not as pure chronology, but as a cultural construct carrying a certain political attitude. In this context, the exhibition comments on modern rationalism and its central role in shaping people's relationship with nature - from the desire for order and control to its reduction to a resource and material.

"The central figure in the exhibition is the tree - materially, symbolically, and conceptually. The trunks brought into the gallery are subjected to gestures of decomposition, reassembly, and transformation that visualize the tension between organic processes and cultural regimes of structuring," said the team.

According to them, the central video component - a five-channel installation - develops the artist's interest in images arising from the interaction between natural forces and technological devices. The series Mondrian in Timber adds an analytical layer, exploring the translation of the organic structure of the tree trunk into a geometric grid - an industrial model for material optimization that reveals the logic of modern rationalism, the Gallery team added.

"Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II offers a critical look at how cultural models and political attitudes of modernity have shaped our perception of nature - as a resource, as material, as an image - and raises the question of what future we are constructing on these understandings today," said the organizers.

Krasimir Terziev was born in 1969 in Dobrich. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans various media, including video/film, photography, painting/drawing, and text, questioning the boundaries between reality and fiction. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Sofia University and a Master's degree in Painting from the National Academy of Arts. His works are part of the collections of the Centre Pompidou/MNAM in Paris, Arteast 2000+ Collection, Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Art Collection Telekom in Bonn, Sofia City Art Gallery, Kunstsammlung Hypovereinsbank in Munich.