National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

European Judo Championships Sofia 2022 will take place in Sofia from April 29 till May 1, 2022.
Venue: Arena Armeec, Sofia.
The program is available at: https://arenaarmeecsofia.net/

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

Dates: 30.4 – 1.5. 2022, Sofia.
Start: 30.04.22 at 11:00 a.m.
End: 1.5. 2022 at 14:00
Place: Severen Park (North Park), Sofia
Sport activities: Street fitness, Free Run and City Parkour, Break dances, Basketball 3х3.
Organizers: Sofia Municipality, Sofia Urban Mobility Center, Sofia - European Capital of Sport Foundation.
Detailed information on  phone: + 359 2 4781585, www.sofia2018.bg , as well as in the Information Center of Sofia - European Capital of Sport Foundation (5 Mihai Eminescu Blvd, Sofia).

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Chamber Hall
Soloist/s
Mariana Pencheva
Plamen Manasiev
Vasilena Atanasova

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Nayden Todorov
Soloist/s
Ray Chen
Ensemble
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5 in e minor, op.64

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
2:35 with one intermission
Main hall
It is performed in Italian, with Bulgarian and English subtitles

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Opera satire by Lazar Nikolov based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Vazov
1:40 without intermission
Main hall
Bulgarian with english subtitles

Two plays by the world's most successful playwrights today - Woody Allen and Neil Simon are on the stage of Sofia Theatre.
* ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE PROJECTED, DURING THE PERFORMANCE. Reservation is required at tel: +359 878 927 524
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Sofia Theatre - Sofia, 23A Yanko Sakazov Blvd.
Contacts:sofiatheatre@gmail.com Tel.: +359 878 927 521: +359 2 944 24 85
Image: website of Sofia Theatre

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Sketches and Pieces of Bankya from April 8 to May 8 in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park
Sketches and Pieces of Bankya - this is the title of the first exhibition of photographs of Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev in the Open-air Gallery in the Kestenite (Chestnuts) Park in Bankya. Welcome to the opening on Friday, April 8, from 5 p.m. near the Big Balneo Center.
Ivan Shishiev and Simeon Krastev are emblematic personalities for Sofia, famous for their beautiful photos, in which they capture unique corners of our capital, one of which is Bankya. The sketches of one artist flow into the pieces of the other and so the photo exhibition for Bankya as a resort of the four seasons was born.
The event is part of the Cultural Events Calendar of Sofia Municipality for 2022.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – SOFIA presents the exhibition “The Hat – Then and Now”. It will run until May 8, 2022.
"The Hat - Then and Now" points to the Sofia fashion area with the ruling Bulgarian tastes and foreign influences. The chronological line in the exhibition starts from the end of the 19th century, continues through the revolutionary XX century and leads the visitor to the current trends.
The exposition concept draws attention to the hat both as a functional necessity and an aesthetic sign. Allocates a place in the exhibition of historical examples, a product of Sofia fashion designers and studios or imported from abroad. These accessories are part of the fund of the Regional History Museum - Sofia. The other part of the exhibition presents modern hats. The women's ones are by the designer Irina Sardareva. Along with her original projects, she restored the hats from the Museum's collection. The men are the work of Georgi Sardarev. The exhibition "The Hat - Then and Now" is located in the hall "Temporary Exhibitions" on the ground floor of the Regional History Museum - Sofia (1 Banski Square).
The visits are carried out in the period February 17 - May 8, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
*"The Hat - Then and Now" is made by the Regional History Museum - Sofia in collaboration with "House of Hats" by designer Irina Sardareva.
Image: Regional History Museum – Sofia

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Nayden Todorov
Soloist/s
Nadezhda Tsanova
Petar Makedonski
Ensemble
Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Program
Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a
Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto for Piano and Orchesta No.1, (Piano, Trumpet and Strings) in C minor, Op. 35

Ballet by Mikis Theodorakis
Времетраене 1:40
Main hall

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Chamber Hall
Soloist/s
Ensemble
Sofia Quartet
Program
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No.7 in F sharp minor, op.108
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - String Quartet No.2 in A minor, op.13

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Deyan Pavlov
Hristo Krotev
Slavil Dimitrov
Soloist/s
Ensemble
National Philharmonic Choir

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

12 May, 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

12 May, 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: Derida Stage, "Tsar Samuil" str. 32
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

12 May, 21:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Grigor Palikarov
Soloist/s
Svetlin Roussev
Ensemble
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Alexander Raychev - "Romantic Concerto" for Violin and Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.9 in E-flat major, Op.70

Opera by Lyubomir Pipkov
Duration 3:25 Intermission 1
Main hall
Performed in Bulgarian

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

13 May, 12:00 - 17:00
Venue: Krasno Selo Cultural center, bul. „Tsar Boris III“ 41
Ticket: 20BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

13 May, 17:00
invitation only
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Bulgaria Concert Hall
Conductor
Emil Tabakov
Soloist/s
Mincho Minchev
Ensemble
Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Program
Joseph Haydn - Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra in B flat major
Joseph Haydn - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in C major
Emil Tabakov - Five Bulgarian Dances for Orchestra (2011)

13 May, 19:00 - 20:00
SAMCA, 2 "Cherni Vrah" blv.
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Chamber Hall
Soloist/s
Ana Mihailova
Daniela Diakova
Denitsa Petrova
Yordan Peev

13 May, 21:00 - 22:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

13 May, 22:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ARCHEOLOGY OF SOFIA AND SOFIA REGION 2021.
14/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.
Image: Regional History Museum - Sofia

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

Kvadrat 500 National Gallery presents the exhibition BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE. 14/05/2022 - 26/06/2022
BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE presents the achievements of creatively therapeutic workshops in ceramics, and materializes a part of the inner world of people with autism that often remains inaccessible to others. And it is just as beautiful as their pure and unfeigned intentions, which have found expression in the forms and objects they have created.
The space housing the ‘New Prospects Through the Arts and Crafts: Art and Jump’ Centre in Sofia is filled with a particular mutual warmth, sharedness and trust in welcoming children, youths, parents, friends, and like-minded people. In the ceramics, textile and dance ateliers, the center’s team has, since 2010, been conducting training sessions and alternative therapies. In 2013, dedicated parents and professionals set up the Foundation for Assistance to People with Developmental Disabilities, whose credo relates to an understanding that each person is unique and has the right to happiness and equal opportunities in achieving it.
Compassion, tolerance, and empathy do not come about by means of laws, but germinate and grow in people’s hearts and souls. Doing good, volunteering and charitableness stimulate the tireless work to perform kindnesses.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

From 3 to 14 May in the open-air gallery in the Crystal Garden the exhibition: View - 100 Years of Urban Photography in Estonia marks the first century of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Bulgaria and tells about these 100 years through a selection of photographs of streets and urban environment.
The works in this exhibition were selected through an open invitation to participate photographers, announced in early spring 2020, as well as selected photographs from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Tallinn and private collections.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Johan Kuus Center for Documentary Photography, the Tallinn Museum of Photography, the Estonian Street Photography Association, the State Cultural Institute under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sofia Municipality and the Estonian Embassy in Bucharest.
Image and text: Culture Department of Sofia Municipality.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Chamber hall

Innovative concert for children to the music of Franсis Poulenc PREMIERE The performance is suitable for children over three years
Duration - 1:00
Chamber hall

14 May, 12:00 - 17:00
Venue: Krasno Selo Cultural center, bul. „Tsar Boris III“ 41
Ticket: 20BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

14 May, 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Derida Stage, "Tsar Samuil" str. 32
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Opera by Richard Strauss
Main hall
The opera is performed in German with subtitles in Bulgarian and English.

14 May, 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Tickets: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Chamber Hall
Soloist/s
Georgi Dimitrov - Zhozho
Ensemble
Classic Art
About the Event
Works by: Luigi Boccherini, Johannes Brahms and Mario Castelnuovo Tedescu

14.5.2022 - Play from Clèment Michel on the stage of Sofia Theatre.
„The Box“ is a modern eccentric comedy in which the breathless rhythm of situations creates a chain of hasty and ridiculous actions, complicated relationships and the inability of the characters to cope with the resulting problems.
* ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE PROJECTED, DURING THE PERFORMANCE. Reservation is required tel: +359 878 927 524
Sofia Theatre I located at 23A Yanko Sakazov Blvd.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Sofia Theatre - Sofia, 23A Yanko Sakazov Blvd.
Contacts:sofiatheatre@gmail.com Tel.: +359 878 927 521: +359 2 944 24 85
Image: website of Sofia Theatre

14 May, 21:00 - 22:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Tickets: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ARCHEOLOGY OF SOFIA AND SOFIA REGION 2021.
14/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.
Image: Regional History Museum - Sofia

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

Kvadrat 500 National Gallery presents the exhibition BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE. 14/05/2022 - 26/06/2022
BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE presents the achievements of creatively therapeutic workshops in ceramics, and materializes a part of the inner world of people with autism that often remains inaccessible to others. And it is just as beautiful as their pure and unfeigned intentions, which have found expression in the forms and objects they have created.
The space housing the ‘New Prospects Through the Arts and Crafts: Art and Jump’ Centre in Sofia is filled with a particular mutual warmth, sharedness and trust in welcoming children, youths, parents, friends, and like-minded people. In the ceramics, textile and dance ateliers, the center’s team has, since 2010, been conducting training sessions and alternative therapies. In 2013, dedicated parents and professionals set up the Foundation for Assistance to People with Developmental Disabilities, whose credo relates to an understanding that each person is unique and has the right to happiness and equal opportunities in achieving it.
Compassion, tolerance, and empathy do not come about by means of laws, but germinate and grow in people’s hearts and souls. Doing good, volunteering and charitableness stimulate the tireless work to perform kindnesses.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

Date: 15.5.2022, Sunday, Sofia.
Star: 11:00 a.m. - Narodno Sabranie Square (in frоnt of National Assembly)
Route: Narodno Sabranie Square – South Park
Organizers: Sofia Municipality, Sofia Urban Mobility Center, Sofia - European Capital of Sport Foundation.
Detailed information on www.sofia2018.bg or phone: + 359 2 4781585, as well as in the Information Center of Sofia - European Capital of Sport Foundation (5 Mihai Eminescu Blvd, Sofia).
FB of the event: HERE
Image: FB of the event

Museum of Art from The Socialist Period presents the exhibition STATES OF IDEOLOGY. It will run until May 15 2022.
Twenty nine works from the foreign section of the National Gallery’s collection feature artists from different countries who, to one degree or another, have in one way or another a bearing on the ideology of socialism in the second half of the twentieth century.
With few exceptions, the collection of these works began in the early 1970s, and most of them were acquired through purchases from the International Exhibition of Realistic Painting in Sofia. The first edition of this art forum was in 1973 and took place every three years until the end of the 1980s. It involves mostly artists from the former socialist camp, as well as authors from Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, West Berlin, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and others. The exhibition curated by Nikolai Ushtavaliiski aims to show the official face of art, living under the common denominator of ideological doctrine, but also to offer a modern perspective on the period. The fulcrums of such a concept are in the national peculiarities of the individual art schools, as well as in the presence of thematic-plot interpretations, revealing the lesser-known, even everyday-life faces of this art.
Museum of Art from the Socialist Period is located in Sofia, on 7 Lachezar Stanchev Str.
Image: https://nationalgallery.bg

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Musical by Andrey Drenikov
Chamber hall
It is performed in Bulgarian

15 May, 15:00
Venue: National Gallery “Kvadrat 500”, 1 "February 19th" str.
Ticket: 10BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Opera by Richard Strauss
Main hall
The opera is performed in German with subtitles in Bulgarian and English.

Chamber Hall
Soloist/s
Stefan Vrachev
Ensemble
Bella Voce

15.5.2022 - Play from Joanna Ovshanko on the stage of Sofia Theatre
* ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE PROJECTED, DURING THE PERFORMANCE. Reservation is required at tel: +359 878 927 524
Sofia Theatre is located at 23A Yanko Sakazov Blvd.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Sofia Theatre - Sofia, 23A Yanko Sakazov Blvd
Contacts:sofiatheatre@gmail.com Tel.: +359 878 927 521: +359 2 944 24 85
Image: website of Sofia Theatre

15 May, 19:30 - 21:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Ticket: 10BGN – 20BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ARCHEOLOGY OF SOFIA AND SOFIA REGION 2021.
14/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.
Image: Regional History Museum - Sofia

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

Kvadrat 500 National Gallery presents the exhibition BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE. 14/05/2022 - 26/06/2022
BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE presents the achievements of creatively therapeutic workshops in ceramics, and materializes a part of the inner world of people with autism that often remains inaccessible to others. And it is just as beautiful as their pure and unfeigned intentions, which have found expression in the forms and objects they have created.
The space housing the ‘New Prospects Through the Arts and Crafts: Art and Jump’ Centre in Sofia is filled with a particular mutual warmth, sharedness and trust in welcoming children, youths, parents, friends, and like-minded people. In the ceramics, textile and dance ateliers, the center’s team has, since 2010, been conducting training sessions and alternative therapies. In 2013, dedicated parents and professionals set up the Foundation for Assistance to People with Developmental Disabilities, whose credo relates to an understanding that each person is unique and has the right to happiness and equal opportunities in achieving it.
Compassion, tolerance, and empathy do not come about by means of laws, but germinate and grow in people’s hearts and souls. Doing good, volunteering and charitableness stimulate the tireless work to perform kindnesses.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition FILM OF EMERGENCY/UKRANIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO ART.
7/04/2022 - 26/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St, St Alexander Nevsky Sq, Sofia.
The National Gallery invites you to an exhibition of contemporary film and video art from Ukraine. The careful selection is the work of the famous Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridnyi, living in Kyiv, at the invitation of the Gallery’s director Iaroslava Bubnova. The project “Urgent topics. Ukrainian Experimental Film and Video Art” is located in the exhibition spaces of Square 500 and is the subtle form in which the National Gallery directly supports its participants from Ukraine.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vera Nedkova House Museum presents the exhibition LANDSCAPES. Vera Nedkova. Kaliya Kalacheva.
The exhibition will run from February 24 till July 24, 2022. Vera Nedkova House Museum is located at 2 “11 th August Str”, Sofia.
The current exhibition focuses on one of the most popular genres in painting—landscape. Works by Vera Nedkova from the National Gallery collection created in the 1960s and 1970s and paintings by Kaliya Kalacheva are on display.
Artists of different creative pursuits, styles and techniques, Vera Nedkova (1906–1996) and Kaliya Kalacheva (b. 1986) correspond in an unusual way in their search for a different perspective of communication and perception of contemporary art.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery

Earth and Man National Museum presents Moon Impact. A geological story.
The exhibition will run from January 28 till September 7, 2022.
The formation of the Moon is the single most important moment in the history of our planet.
The exhibition tells the story of the Giant impact and the Moon formation in the context of the geological evolution of the Earth and of the solar system.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of Earth and Man National Museum.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd.
Text and image: Earth and Man National Museum

National Gallery Kvadrat 500 presents the exhibition Pandemonium. 28/04/2022 - 12/06/2022. National Gallery Kvadrat 500 is located at 1, 19th February St., St Alexander Nevsky Sq.,Sofia
From the Hristo Botev quarter in Sofia to the Cova da Moura and Amadora ghettos on the outskirts of Lisbon in Portugal, Nikolay Milanov creates powerful photographic portraits of people from the so-called vulnerable groups living on the streets. A social worker by profession and vocation, Milanov meets the heroes of his photographs during his work shifts while providing them with assistance, always lending a helping hand and with an open heart. It is his work among representatives of our society who live in severe social and domestic conditions or lead a life on the street that determines his photographic interest and choice of subject matter.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

Vaska Emanouilova Gallery presents the exhibition PARADISE POOL. Yana Lozeva. 20/04/ - 29/05/ 2022. Vaska Emanouilova Gallery is located at 15, Yanko Sakazov Blvd, Sofia (entrance from the backside of park Zaimov.
The photographs express the contemplation and enjoyment of the moments and details of everyday life. They form a narrative of childhood and of the child that everyone can relate to as part of their life. The moments of carefree play are those instances that reflect eternity with its pure heavenly eyes. The artist’s idea thus runs as a thread through the entire exhibition, with various short poetic narratives developing around it.
In the space of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, the artist works with the permanent exhibition of Vaska Emanouilova’s artworks, and with the portraits of children in particular. They represent an aspect of the artist’s work that is less frequently featured in exhibitions and less explored by art experts.
Yana Lozeva (born 1989) is a freelance photographer. She works mostly in the field of portraiture and personal documentary. Her solo exhibitions in Bulgaria include: Terminal – SKLAD, Plovdiv, part of the European Capital of Culture (2019), Come to Me, UniCredit Studio, Fotofabrika Festival (2018), Adata I, Rubber Gallery, Plovdiv (2015), Immediate Light, Rubber Gallery, Sofia (2013).
Image and text: official website of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery.

Sofia City Art Gallery (SCAG) presents the exhibition REALITY AND MYSTICISM
An exhibition within the framework of The Other Eye Project. 27/04/2022 - 10/07/2022.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located at 1 Gen. Gurko str, Sofia.
The Other Eye is a SCAG project presenting periodically exhibitions designed and curated by non-art historian outside curators who select works from the gallery’s permanent collection to create thought-provoking art projects of their own. For its new exhibition under the project, the gallery has invited as curator Georgi Voynov, an economist and longtime contemporary art collector.
Georgi Voynov focuses on the charitable donation of artworks, as well as on the reality and mysticism in the works of specific artists belonging to the genres of graphic arts and sculpture.
The exhibition presents four notable Bulgarian graphic artists and their view of the world. The artworks featured in the exhibition are characterized by thematic and genre (printmaking and sculpture) diversity, yet they have one thing in common, namely all of them have become part of the permanent collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery through charitable donations. The exhibition features 82 graphic artworks and 15 small-scale sculptures created by artists belonging to different generations, with differing aesthetic views, philosophies of life and means of expression.
The exhibition features artworks handpicked by the artists who created them to be added to the SCAG graphic arts and sculpture collections as charitable donations, as well as artworks presented to the gallery by the heirs of renowned Bulgarian artists.
Veselin Staykov and Preslav Karshovski seek their themes in the real visible world. With Rumen Skorchev and Nikolay Maystorov eternal parables and sentimental memories are enveloped in mysticism and related to imaginary creatures and situations. The rough mark left by life reflected in Margarita Radeva’s ceramic portraits contrasts with the soft plastic shapes of Margarit Tsanev’s miniature sculptures thus blending these artworks with the graphic artworks presented in the exhibition.
Looking back at the collections donated to the SCAG, this exhibition shows appreciation and respect for donors for their noble gesture which is commensurate with the artistic merit of the donated artworks. Charitable donation of artworks is a matter of personal choice, yet it has a great social impact and significance.
Image and text: official website of SCAG

National Archeological Museum presents the exhibition THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS. 21/4/2022 – 30/11/2022.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS presents the development of the weaponry, warfare and the technological craftsmanship of Ancient Thrace. The exposition offers an analysis of the processes and mechanisms through which main shapes of Hellenic armament were adopted, as well as the typology and technology of these artifacts not only in Thrace, but in the Classical world in general.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS consists of more than 120 artifacts – Thracian armament. Among them are composite scaled corset, swords, sheaths, helmets, parade neck-guard.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS refers to the political history of Thrace in the second half of the 1 st Millennium BC and the development of two state formations on the territory of nowadays Bulgaria and Romania - the Odrysian kingdom and the Getaen state.
THE PANOPLY OF THE THRACIAN WARRIORS is a project of St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science, in cooperation with 21 Bulgarian museums and 2 Romanian museums, including National Museum of History of Romania.
Image: National Archeological Museum at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.

National History Museum presents Valchitran Gold Treasure. 28.04.2022 - 30.09.2022.
Valchitran gold treasure is monument of Thracian art. It consists of 13 gold objects and dates back to the 14 -13 century BC or the end of the Bronze Age.
National History Museum is located 16 Vitoshko lale str, Boyana district, Sofia.
Image: National History Museum

The exhibition Worthy of Freedom is dedicated to thousands of Bulgarians who took part in the Russian-Turkish War and gave their lives for the Freedom of Bulgaria. 
Worthy of Freedom focuses on the role of the Bulgarian Voluntary Army units and their famous actions in the battles fought over Shipka, Stara Zagora and Sheynovo, during the war.
Worthy of Freedom will run in the National Military Museum.
The visits are carried out in the period March 4 - June 30, 2022 in compliance with all current anti-epidemic measures.
National Museum of Military History is located at 92 Cherkovna street, Sofia.
Working hours: Wednesday – Sunday: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Tickets at the cash-desk of the museum.
Image: National Military Museum

Sofia City Art Gallery presents the exhibition “A world gone mad...” - 110 years since the declaration of the Balkan War and 140 years since the birth of Vladimir Dimitrov – Maystora.
The exhibition will run from February 22 till May 29, 2022. The story of the Balkan War is preserved thanks to archival and museum funds, documents, diaries, letters, photos, paintings, poems, books and periodicals, which recall the history and exploits of those generations of Bulgarians who sacrificed their lives in the name of national values, unity and a bright future. Many artists from different generations are either called upon or enlist as volunteers, inevitably linking not only their lives but their creative work with the Balkan War, as well as military art and the historical painting genre later on. Some of them are professors at the National Arts Academy or high school teachers, others have just completed their art degrees in Sofia and other European capitals, and the remainder are yet to pursue a degree.
Apart from paintings and graphics, sculptural works dedicated to the war can also be found. Young sculptors Ivan Lazarov, Angel Spasov, Anastas Dudulov and Yanko Pavlov are involved in the Balkan War, with Ivan Lazarov being the only one with a complete and consistent series of sculptures, namely They’ve Won, On a Knife Edge, At the Watering Hole, Superpowers and others. The National Museum of Military History’s funds have the richest collection of works by artists who participated in the wars. Some of Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov’s war-related works are stored at the Kyustendil Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery’s collection also houses some of the best examples of military art. Works related to the Balkan War, albeit fewer in numbers, including singles, can be found around collections of art galleries in the country – Varna, Plovdiv, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kazanlak, Kardzhali, the State Archives Agency, and some in private collections. The project comes to fruition in partnership with The National Museum of Military History and Kyustendil’s Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov Art Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a collection of documentaries owned by the Bulgarian National Film Library, the Bulgarian National Television, as well as Venelin Shurelov’s multimedia project Vladimir “The Master” Dimitrov: Light and Spirit, realized in 2014 as commissioned by the 13 Centuries of Bulgaria Fund.
The visits to “The war! A world gone mad...” exhibition will be fully compliant with all current anti-epidemic measures.
Sofia City Art Gallery is located in Sofia, on 1, Gen. Gurko Str.
Text and image: official website of Sofia City Art Gallery

17/05/2022 - 17/07/2022
The exhibition “Awakening Between the Lines” combines literature and fine art. Following a creative writing course with British authors Dr Will Buckingham and Dr Hannah Stevens of Wind&Bones, the WomenSurvivors (#женитеSurvivors) created 30 flash fiction micro-stories. The final stories in English were edited by Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens, and in Bulgarian by Nadezhda Radulova and Silvia Ivanova, with proofreading by Iva Koleva.
23 Bulgarian artists were invited to visualise these stories, and their works are included in the exhibition. Viewers have the opportunity to “read between the lines”, to experience the emotional impact of these artworks, both literary and visual, and the unique sensibilities of their creators.

Earth and Man National Museum presents the exhibition Zlati Zlatev - 40 years dedicated to the collection of Bulgarian minerals. From 01 April to 31 December.
Earth and Man National Museum is located at 4 Cherni Vrah Blvd, Sofia.
Image and text: official website of Earth and Man National Museum.

Main hall

16 May, 19:30 - 21:00
Venue: Toplocentrala, "South Park - II", UPI IX
Ticket: 10BGN – 20BGN
The performance is part of the programme of the 15th edition of the ANTISTATIC Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Image: website of Antistatic

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ARCHEOLOGY OF SOFIA AND SOFIA REGION 2021.
14/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.
Image: Regional History Museum - Sofia

Regional History Museum - Sofia presents the exhibition ART BOOK. 3/5/2022 – 31/5/2022.
ART BOOK is part of Paper Art Biennial and was realized with the support of Sofia Municipality, Cultural Events Calendar.
Regional History Museum – Sofia is located at 1 Banski Square, Sofia.

Kvadrat 500 National Gallery presents the exhibition BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE. 14/05/2022 - 26/06/2022
BEING DIFFERENT IS A PRIVILEGE presents the achievements of creatively therapeutic workshops in ceramics, and materializes a part of the inner world of people with autism that often remains inaccessible to others. And it is just as beautiful as their pure and unfeigned intentions, which have found expression in the forms and objects they have created.
The space housing the ‘New Prospects Through the Arts and Crafts: Art and Jump’ Centre in Sofia is filled with a particular mutual warmth, sharedness and trust in welcoming children, youths, parents, friends, and like-minded people. In the ceramics, textile and dance ateliers, the center’s team has, since 2010, been conducting training sessions and alternative therapies. In 2013, dedicated parents and professionals set up the Foundation for Assistance to People with Developmental Disabilities, whose credo relates to an understanding that each person is unique and has the right to happiness and equal opportunities in achieving it.
Compassion, tolerance, and empathy do not come about by means of laws, but germinate and grow in people’s hearts and souls. Doing good, volunteering and charitableness stimulate the tireless work to perform kindnesses.
Text and image: official website of National Gallery.

National Gallery - The Palace presents the exhibition BOGDAN ALEKSANDROV. Painting as a Continuous Script (7/04/2022 - 19/06/2022).
National Gallery - The Palace is located at 1 Knyaz Alexander I Sq., Sofia.
The exhibition includes a selection of Bogdan Aleksandrov’s most significant works and underlines his place in the context of contemporary Bulgarian art. The forty large-format portraits and compositions, created since 2010, present in cycles various aspects of the artist’s oeuvre (including ‘Triads’, ‘Purgatorium’, ‘Pareidolia: Staged Portraits’, and ‘Vertigo: Portraits Without Diagnosis’), with some being shown for the first time.
Image and text: official website of National Gallery.

The National Archaeological Museum presents BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021. The exhibition will run from February 16 till September 18, 2022.
BULGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 2021 presents the discoveries and investigations from the last active archaeological season.
The artefacts illustrate the development of cultures in present day Bulgaria from the Palaeolithic (more than100 000 years BP) until the Middle Ages.
Tickets at the ticket-desk of the National Archaeological Museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is located at 2 Saborna str, Sofia.
Image: FB of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS

Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery presents the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in the Studio. October 2021 – May 31 2022
For more than 10 years, the art studio of one of Bulgaria’s greatest artists and intellectuals, Dechko Uzunov, was not accessible to the public. There is already the opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s world and feel the atmosphere in which he created his art. Dechko Uzunov spent the last years of his life in his studio.
The theme of venues where Dechko Uzunov created his artworks is elaborated on in the exhibition Dechko Uzunov. Dialogues in Art presented at the gallery adjacent to the studio. Through the years, Uzunov’s teaching and diplomatic assignments turned this venue into a place where the artist managed to strike a balance between his personal space and social life.
Artworks presenting models at the studio reveal the many dialogues the artist had with himself and his students. Dialogues about the personal and the social, and, not less importantly, about art and reality.
This exhibition features works belonging to the permanent collections of Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery, Sofia City Art Gallery, Nikola Marinov Targoviste City Art Gallery, Kazanlak City Art Gallery and private collections.
Dechko Uzunov Art Gallery is located at 24 Dragan Tsankov Blvd, Sofia. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm. Free entrance.