site.btaStanding Voices Exhibition Marks 20th Anniversary of State Institute for Culture under Minister of Foreign Affairs

Standing Voices is a large-scale project which will mark the 20th anniversary of the State Institute for Culture with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The event will open on May 8 at the Cube Gallery - Toplocentrala, the organizers said.

The exhibition will show different points of view on the relationship between man and the world and the right to life, returning to the ideas of glasnost, human dignity and unity from the dawn of democratic processes in Bulgaria.

The exhibition will be curated by Vladiya Mihaylova and unites artists in the context of the memory of the past and the understanding of the present. Works by Alexander Lazarkov, Alla Georgieva, Valentina Shara, Dina Stoev, Ivo Bistrichki, Kamen Stoyanov, Krasimira Butseva, Snejanka Mihaylova, Stoyan Dechev, Olivia Mihaltianu, and Youlian Tabakov will be presented at the Cube Gallery - Toplocentrala and the Earth and Man National Museum.

The exhibition concept is based on the archive stories about Ruse gas contamination and the following environmental movements in Bulgaria in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the context of the crises of modernity. The primary rights for life itself: the need for water, air, food, for security and protection meets the concepts of connection with others, freedom, joy and love. 

The Standing Voices programme features the movies Breathe (Director: Yuri Zhirov) and Six Women (Director: Vladimir Kondov), as well as documents, articles and photographs covering the past events, provided by the Bulgarian National Television, the Bulgarian National Radio, State Archive - Ruse, Lyuben Karavelov Regional Library, the Regional Historical Museum - Ruse, and others.  

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is media partner of the events around the 20th anniversary of the Institute. The partnership agreement between BTA and the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs  was renewed on April 17 at the BTA National Press Club and the LIK font was given to the Institute.