Dutch authors from the Herbarium Collection are Visiting the Mission Gallery
Andrea Freckman, Berndnaut Smilde, Lola Göller, Levi van Veluw,
Nan Wang, Funda Baysal, Michaela Lakova, Lili Huston Herterich,
Eden Mitsenmacher, Rene Beekman, Larisa David, Marie Civikov, Merve Kilicer, Angelica Falkeling
December 13, 2022 - 27 January 2023
Opening: December 13, Tuesday, 18 - 20:00
Mission Gallery, 2 Alfred Nobel Str. (Entrance to Al. Zhendov Str.
The Herbarium project explores the essence of the creative process through the work strategies and the contacts between the visual artists in contemporary culture. The Herbarium Collection seals the energy of the creative act of different generations of artists around the world in boxes similar to those where plant specimens are stored. The boxes are accompanied by copyrighted texts and sound files, as well as additional materials related to the creative biographies of the participants. The collected materials are published at https://www.herbariumCollection.com.
The video portraits "H Talks", which are part of the Herbarium project, are filmed in the work environment of artists. All the elements of the project form a unique archive for researchers, curators, gallerists, students and lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms of work in modern culture. The first exhibition of the Herbarium Collection took place in 2021 at the Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art. It included 55 authors from Bulgaria, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Japan, Finland, the United States and Turkey.
The new issue of Herbarium focuses on artists based in the Netherlands. Eight new authors are involved in the project except those shown in the previous exhibition. The Dutch Selection of Herbarium includes artists Andrea Freckman, Berndnaut Smilde, Lola Göller, Levi van Veluw, Nan Wang, Funda Baysal, Michaela Lakova, Lili Huston Herterich, Eden Mitsenmacher, Rene Beekman, Larisa David, Marie Civikov, Merve Kilicer, Angelica Falkeling.
Curator Irina Batkova and H Talks director Milena Kaneva documented meetings with eight artists in their work studios in Rotterdam, Hague, Amsterdam and Midelburg. In short films, visual artists reflect on different aspects of their realization on the artistic scene and affect many important topics related to the ability to preserve your creative independence in a world where daily survival requires more and more energy and energy. The exhibition will be the premiere of the video portraits of Eden Mitsenamacher, Andrea Freckman and Marie Civikov.
The project is implemented with the financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bulgaria and jointly with the State Cultural Institute of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.