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CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN ACTION: ARTISTS FROM BULGARIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN MACEDONIA WITH A JOINT EXHIBITION IN SOFIA
The collective exhibition "Cultural Diplomacy - Balkan Dialogue" was opened at the Mission Gallery at the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Seven Bulgarian artists take part in it: Svetlin Rusev, Stanislav Pamukchiev, Ivaylo Mirchev, Lyuben Genov, Dimitar Cholakov, Milko Bozhkov and Roman Kisov, and seven artists from the Republic of North Macedonia: Vladimir Georgievski, Pavle Kuzmanoski, Dimitar Malidanov-Janeta Gelevano , Petar Popchev, Nikola Ivanov...
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION "CULTURAL DIPLOMACY - BALKAN DIALOGUE" VISITS THE "MISSION" GALLERY
Opening: May 17, 6 pm, Mission Gallery, 2 Alfred Nobel Street The Collective exhibition "Cultural Diplomacy - Balkan Dialogue" from the Republic of North Macedonia is visiting Sofia on the occasion of the celebration of May 21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development of UNESCO. At the initiative of the United Nations, a joint declaration was adopted on May 21, 2001, aimed at promoting the diversity of national cultures in the world. Since then, the celebration of the...
The exhibition
The Director of the State Institute for Culture under the Minister of Foreign Affairs Snezhana Yoveva-Dimitrova opened the visiting exhibition "Shared Art in the Balkans - Traditions and Modernity". The exhibition is on the occasion of April 15, declared by UNESCO World Art Day and contains works from the IV International Youth Art Festival "River of Tolerance", held from 13 to 17 September 2021, under the auspices of UNESCO, organized by the National Donation Fund "13th Century...
"The Shared Art of the Balkans—Traditions and Contemporaneity" - Art Works from the 4th ‘River of Tolerance’ International Youth Art Festival
The ‘River of Tolerance’ International Youth Art Festival is a project of the ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’ National Endowment Fund that brings together lecturers and students in the visual arts from Balkan states to inclusive educational initiatives. During this event, established artists and young talents can share their ideas, views and practices, and build a common vision of the values that unify them. The Fund had previously held three successful editions of...
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)
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
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
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"
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
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
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"
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
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
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"
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"
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,...