site.btaArtist Stanislav Belovski to Present Exhibition on State of Buildings Left Exposed to Effects of Time

The current state of buildings and facilities from the recent past, left exposed to the effects of time, is the focus of the exhibition Foundations by artist Stanislav Belovski. The exhibition will open on May 28 and can be viewed until June 15 at Sofia’s Doza Gallery, the hosts said on Saturday.

At the centre of the project are abandoned, ruined and corroded spaces that were once places of production, services, meetings and collective life, the team said. According to them, Belovski uses visual references to the so-called urbex culture, which explores abandoned industrial and public sites, but develops this approach further through personal interpretations.

“The works, created using acrylic, plywood, plexiglass, cement, pencil and photography, materialise both the constructivist hope that architectural structures could create new types of societies, and the memory that collective utopias generate their own decay,” the organisers added.

Foundations explores whether it is possible today to conceive of a shared future without linking it either to nostalgia for past social projects or to virtual simulations, the organisers said.

The new exhibition is in dialogue with the artist’s previous two projects - Nostalgic Dystopia, presented in 2022 at Credo Bonum Gallery, and The House of the Setting Sun, shown in 2025 at Doza Gallery. The three exhibitions form a kind of trilogy exploring the relationship between future, past and present, the team added.

They specified that the project is being realised with the financial support of the National Culture Fund.

Stanislav Belovski was born in 1976 in Sofia, where he lives and works. He is a multidisciplinary artist known for projects such as Mirror Mirror, No Reason to Leave from the Sun, Make Art Not Friends and Correction of Socialism. Since 2018, Belovski has also gained wide popularity through his artistic interventions in urban spaces, published on social media and covered by international media outlets. In 2023, Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art presented his solo exhibition I Had to Do Something…, dedicated to the war in Ukraine.