site.btaInternational Exhibition on Utopia Opens at Sofia's One Gallery

Alternative… In The Line Of Utopia, an international exhibition featuring 11 artists from Austria, Italy, Poland, Georgia and Bulgaria, opens at Sofia's One Gallery on April 14 and runs until May 14, organizers said on Tuesday.

It presents diverse artistic readings of utopia as a space for imagination, critical inquiry and visual exploration.

The exhibition features works produced during an international artist residency in Plovdiv in 2024, alongside new works and installations that expand the notion of drawing beyond its traditional forms to encompass the object, space and the conceptual gesture.

Under the curatorial concept, drawing is framed not as a finished product but as a process and an experimental practice. At the heart of the exhibition is utopia, seen not as an idealized vision of the future but as a tool for understanding the present.

Organizers said the project draws on Plato and Thomas More, as well as on contemporary social and political contexts through which the participating artists construct visual narratives between the possible and the unrealized.

The exhibition brings together drawings, objects, installations and sculptural forms exploring the relationship between memory and matter, and between reality and fiction. Some works examine utopia as a historical current of thought, while others recast it in personal, fragmented artistic spaces.

The project was initiated by Severina Kehayova and is curated by FURNA art & culture. It launches a series of international artistic encounters and collaborative practices focused on contemporary forms of collectivity and cultural exchange. The participating artists are Peter Assmann, Elena Caterina Doria, Karolina Gacke, Isa Geiger, Violeta Ivanova, Nino Lomsadze, Max Della Mora, Leo Neuhauser, Mariana Nikolai Pacheva, Herwig Prammer and Aeno | Emanuela Serafino.