CULTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN BULGARIA AND GERMANY THROUGH THE EXHIBITION "BRAVE NEW EARTH: LOOKING FORWARD THROUGH MEMORIES" IN BERLIN
DATES: 03.07.2021 - 18.07.2021
OPENING: July 2, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
GALLERY: http://www.vbk-art.de/index.php/en/verein.html
On July 2, 2021, the exhibition "Brave New Earth: Looking Forward through Memories" opened at the Gallery of the Association of Berlin Artists in Berlin. The title of the exhibition is a reference to the anti-utopian novel by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932.
The event is part of a project for cultural exchange between the Association of Berlin Artists, the State Institute for Culture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin.
The exhibition presents 19 authors, some of whom are young artists of Bulgarian origin, based in Berlin who are part of the new Berlin art scene, and the rest are German artists with solid experience behind them, who can be called "local Berliners". All authors were invited within the exhibition to engage with the concept of renewal and to offer creative ideas through various artistic media related to the current issues facing humanity and nature today. The names of the artists participating in the exhibition on the German side are: Ziggy Torinus / Andrea Zunder-Plasman, Bridget Maas, Siegrid Mueller-Holtz, Peter Schlangenbader, Utah Bart, Marianne Gyllen, Sebastian Cusenberg, Ina Linnemann and Lindemann and on the Bulgarian side are: Zoran Georgiev, Zara Alexandrova, Vikenti Komitski, Elena Kaludova, Veneta Androva, Marta Dzhurina, Elizabeth Talauer, Iva Vacheva and Ivan Kostolov.
At the opening of the exhibition, the expert from the State Institute for Culture and curator Ms. Nia Tabakova said: "The current exhibition was planned to take place in 2020 as an exchange project between Sofia and Berlin, but due to the pandemic it was canceled and subsequently reformulated into a joint exhibition in Berlin, where both Bulgarian and German artists are shown together, under the common denominator of the city in which they actually live. The exhibition can be seen as a form of cultural dialogue between East and West, where the thin threads between old and new, past and future, tradition and innovation are intertwined. We are grateful for the good partnership with the Berlin artists and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin, for the promotion of this important event.“ Representative of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin at the exhibition was Iskra Trayanova - curator and art critic.
The exhibition will be on view in the gallery of the Association of Berlin Artists in Berlin until July 18, 2021.