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The Mission Gallery Gathered Guests for the Presentation of the Bilingual Album “Cyril and Methodius. Images. Memory. Identity

07/04/22
The Mission Gallery Gathered Guests for the Presentation of the Bilingual Album “Cyril and Methodius. Images. Memory. Identity

On the occasion of the celebration of the Assumption of St. Methodius on April 6 in the gallery "Mission" of the State Institute for Culture to the Minister of Foreign Affairs was presented the bilingual album “Cyril and Methodius. Images. Memory. Identity", established by the Cyril and Methodius Research Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under a project of the National Scientific Program "Cultural and Historical Heritage, National Memory and Social Development". The only...

"EARTH FORCES" Solo Exhibition of Nina Ruseva (with the special participation of Ivan Rusev)

09/03/22
"EARTH FORCES" Solo Exhibition of Nina Ruseva (with the special participation of Ivan Rusev)

Mission Gallery, Sofia, 2 Alfred Nobel Str. March 8-31, 2022 Opening: March 8, Tuesday from 18:00 h.   The Mission Gallery of the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs is pleased to present a painting exhibition of the talented Bulgarian artist who lives and works in Sofia - Nina Ruseva. Her father, the famous sculptor Ivan Rusev, will join the exhibition with his sculpture as a special guest. The paintings that Nina Ruseva painted during the period of...

DEBUT OF THE MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION

03/02/22
DEBUT OF THE MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION

The exhibition "The Longest Journey" aims to mark and promote the first circumnavigation of the Earth as a key journey in world history and to pay tribute to the research spirit of man and his search for knowledge and the unknown. The multimedia exhibition, conceived as a concept map of the first circumnavigation, will be shown for the first time in Bulgaria in the Mission Gallery at the State Institute for Culture. 500 years ago in Seville, Spain, began a long-awaited journey of mankind - on...

Festive Exhibition "One Hundred Years of Bulgarian Painting" at the Mission Gallery

14/12/21
Festive Exhibition "One Hundred Years of Bulgarian Painting" at the Mission Gallery

On the eve of the upcoming bright holidays we have the pleasure to invite you to the opening of the visiting painting collection entitled "One Hundred Years of Bulgarian Painting" (1920-2021) on December 21 (Tuesday) from 18:00 in the Mission gallery. The works are from the fund of our partners from Elena and Ivan Duychevi Foundation and the Center for Slavic-Byzantine Studies "Prof. Ivan Duychev" at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohrivski". The occasion is to celebrate together an important...

On the Occasion of the Month of the National Leaders, the Mission Gallery hosts the exhibition "The Way of St. Cyril and Methodius"

04/11/21
On the Occasion of the Month of the National Leaders, the Mission Gallery hosts the exhibition "The Way of St. Cyril and Methodius"

The exhibition "The Way of Cyril and Methodius" was created by the Cyril and Methodius Research Center at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in support of the certification of the "Cultural Route of Cyril and Methodius" within the program "The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe", which aims to show by traveling through space and time how the heritage of individual European countries contributes to the delineation of a common cultural heritage. This program is a channel for intercultural...

The Photo Exhibition "Bulgaria And Japan - Politics, Diplomacy, Personalities And Events" Visits The Ministry Of The Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

01/11/21
The Photo Exhibition "Bulgaria And Japan - Politics, Diplomacy, Personalities And Events" Visits The Ministry Of The Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

  The photo exhibition “Bulgaria and Japan. Politics, Diplomacy, Personalities and Events” will be exhibited in the representative space on the 7th floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between November 1 and December 31, 2021. The exhibition is based on the book of the same name published in May 2019 and is dedicated to the triple anniversary of relations between the two countries, marked in 2019, namely - 110 years since the beginning of official contacts (1909), 80...

The Omnibus "Mark and Verse – Animation Poetry" Meets with the Audience at the Mission Gallery

11/10/21
The Omnibus "Mark and Verse – Animation Poetry" Meets with the Audience at the Mission Gallery

On October 13, 2021 at 6 pm the project of Compote Collective – 12 animated films based on contemporary Bulgarian poems, will be presented together with a book-album in the gallery of the State Institute for Culture. The State Institute for Culture has been a partner of the “Mark and Verse” project for several years through the presentation of films in the programs of the Bulgarian diplomatic missions. Now we participate in the creation of this exhibition and catalog to it...

Opening of the Mission Gallery with the Exhibition “Miraculous Icons and Holy Relics of the Balkans"

09/08/21
Opening of the Mission Gallery with the Exhibition “Miraculous Icons and Holy Relics of the Balkans"

August 13 - September 13, 2021Opening: August 13, 11 a.m.Mission Gallery, 2 Alfred Nobel Str., SofiaThe official opening of the renovated Mission Gallery at the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs will take place on August 13 (Friday) at 11 a.m. with a new poster exhibition "Miraculous Icons and Holy Relics of the Balkans" - part of the mobile exhibitions of the State Institute for Culture for the purposes of cultural diplomacy.The exhibition "Miraculous Icons and...

Exhibition by Stella Sidi "Around the World in 270 Days" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria

09/07/21
Exhibition by Stella Sidi "Around the World in 270 Days" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria

  July - September 2021 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, lobby, ground floor On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Argentina and at the invitation of the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs National Endowment Fund "13th Century Bulgaria" presents the exhibition "Around the World in 270 Days" by Stella Sidi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of...

The Exhibition “A Journey Through Living Traditions. The Intangible Cultural Heritage of SEE” is a Guest at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10/05/21
The Exhibition “A Journey Through Living Traditions. The Intangible Cultural Heritage of SEE” is a Guest at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Bulgaria's accession to UNESCO, the National Commission for Bulgaria for UNESCO, the State Institute of Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Regional Center for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southeast Europe under the auspices of UNESCO organized the presentation of the documentary exhibition  “A Journey Through Living Traditions. The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Southeast Europe”.The...

Documentary Exhibition "150 Years of the Bulgarian Exarchate"

19/04/21
Documentary Exhibition "150 Years of the Bulgarian Exarchate"

April 19 - May 21, 2021 Opening: April 19, 2021, 11:00 a.m. MFA, 7th Floor On April 19 at 11.00 in the exhibition space on the 7th floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be presented the documentary exhibition "150 years of the Bulgarian Exarchate", prepared by the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to mark the significant anniversary of Bulgarian history. The panels trace historical processes and related events from the church-educational...

PHOTO EXHIBITION "30 YEARS SINCE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN"

11/03/21
PHOTO EXHIBITION "30 YEARS SINCE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN"

Due to the epidemiological situation, the exhibition will be extended until April 16, 2021. The Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs is organizing a photo exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is celebrated on December 16 this year.Exactly on 16 December 1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan,...

The exhibition "Significant Women in History - from Bratislava to Ruse" Visits the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

16/02/21
The exhibition "Significant Women in History - from Bratislava to Ruse" Visits the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The exhibition "Significant Women in History - from Bratislava to Ruse" aims to examine the role of women in the social, political, scientific and cultural world. She compares and at the same time unites the projects "Women in History" of the Regional History Museum in Ruse and the association "European Spaces 21" and the exhibition "The First Women" of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Sofia in cooperation with the civil association CHARAKTER - Film Development Association. The...

"UPGRADE II" - virtual exhibition with new paintings from the Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

20/01/21
 "UPGRADE II" -  virtual exhibition with new paintings from the Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs starts 2021 with a positive and creative attitude with the exhibition "UPGRADE II".In April-May, 2020, the institute organized the first edition of the virtual exhibition "UPGRADE" - a collective online exhibition at the Mission gallery, which showed the latest works of art acquired for the Art Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These were works from exhibitions realized in recent years, donated /bought works and...

Exhibition on the Occasion of 170 Years Since the Birth of Ivan Vazov at the Mission Gallery

18/11/20
Exhibition on the Occasion of 170 Years Since the Birth of Ivan Vazov  at the Mission Gallery

  After its successful exhibition in the summer this year, the poster exhibition "170 Years Since the Birth of Ivan Vazov" visited the State Institute for Culture at the Mission gallery. Specially created for Vazov's jubilee celebrations, the exhibition was presented to the public for the first time in the Central Building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on July 9 - the birthday of the Patriarch of Bulgarian Literature. The exhibition presents works by Vazov, stored in the library...

A LOOK AT MEMORIES IN MARIETA KONOVA'S PAINTING EXHIBITION

16/10/20
A LOOK AT MEMORIES IN MARIETA KONOVA'S PAINTING EXHIBITION

On October 15, 2020 at the Mission gallery was opened a painting exhibition of the established contemporary Bulgarian artist, associate professor and doctor of art and fine arts at VTU "St. St. Cyril and Methodius ”in the town of Veliko Tarnovo - Marieta Konova.The exposition with the poetic title "Yesterday", which is inspired by the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles from 1965, declared the best song in the history of mankind, is a chronological record of a series of meetings, travels,...