3 September 2018

Newsletter September 2018

Sariev Contemporary's newsletter for September is out now. 

View it in your browser here, including images and more info. 

 

 

 

 

ARTISTS - UPCOMING

Pravdoliub Ivanov

24th Week of Contemporary Art
METAPHORAI
group show
Curated by Katia Anguelova & Alessandra Poggianti
Presented by Art Today Association 

Spatial Narratives by: Babi Badalov, Zbynek Baladran, Alberto Garutti, Mohssin Harraki, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Daniela Kostova, Jiri Kovanda, Juan Pablo Macias, Margherita Moscardini, Maurizio Nannucci, Delphine Reist, Sebastien Roux, Hans Schabus, Olivier Vadrot

14 September - 14 October 2018
Opening: 14 September, 6 pm

Centre of Contemporary Art, The Ancient Bath
179, 6 Septemvri blvd., Plovdiv 4000
www.arttoday.org

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Stefan Nikolaev

Rien ne va plus
solo show

8 September - 10 October 2018
Opening: 6 September, 6 pm

Galerie Michel Rein
42 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
www.michelrein.com

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Kamen Stoyanov

PHANTASY IS MORE IMPORTANT
project, hd video, 5:40 minutes, 9 photographies
Curated by Boris Kostadinov

presented by FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion - project of Open Arts Foundation and Austrian Embassy in Bulgaria,
during viennacontemporary

25 September - 25 October 2018
Opening: 25 September, 7 pm

more info here

Notgalerie
Aspern 1220
1220 Vienna
www.reinholdzisser.com

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Kamen Stoyanov

SUBURBINALE FILMFESTIVAL
presenting his film New Istanbul Dream, 2017

13 - 16 September 2018

Suburbinale Filmfestival
Marchfelder Str. 2
2301 Gross-Enzersdorf
www.machbarschaft.at/suburbinale

 

VIDEO ARCHIVE

watch the video archive of

Portfolio Day 2018

workshop for young artists 

Participating young artists after selection: Marchela Apostolova, Stoyan Ilev, Yavor Kostadinov, Radoslav Ninov, Martin Penev, Ivana Petrova, Anton Tsanev​
Experts: Luchezar Boyadjiev (artist), Vera Mlechevska (curator and art critic), Vessela Nozharova (curator), Svetoslav Todorov (journalist), Vesselina and Katrin Sariev (gallerists)​

Portfolio Day is part of the platform
BACKGROUND: Young Artists 2018 by Sariev Contemporary

Background: Young Artists 2018 is realised with the support of Gaudenz B. Ruf

watch the video
[in Bulgarian]

 

UPCOMING SHOW - SARIEV CONTEMPORARY, PLOVDIV

Rada Boukova

What energy do we put into transforming things, with undisguised pleasure
solo show

the exhibition will be held at SARIEV Contemporary and St. Joseph Church, Plovdiv

6 September - 27 October 2018

Opening: 6 September 2018
6 pm - opening at gallery SARIEV Contemporary in the presence of the artist
6:50 pm - walking tour to St. Joseph Church (9 min.)
7 pm - opening of the second part of the show in St. Joseph Church, Plovdiv
8 pm - the guests are invited to the party “10 years artnewscafe” at FLUCA (in front of gallery SARIEV Contemporary)

SARIEV Contemporary
40, Otets Paisiy str, Plovdiv 4000
www.sariev-gallery.com

Saint Joseph Church
Dr. GM Dimitrov Str., Plovdiv 4000
visits at the church by appointment with gallery SARIEV Contemporary

 

PUBLICATION

Luchezar Boyadjiev

Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology


Editors: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril
Published by Duke University Press
August 2018
408 pages
Part of the series MoMA Primary Documents

Boyadjiev, Luchezar, “It’s too Early to Say”, p.p. 361-364

more about the book here

 

RECENT MEDIA

SUR(REAL)RENDER: Unreal as Voin de Voin himself
An article and talk with Voin de Voin about his his performance and exhibition SUR(REAL)RENDER at Sariev Contemporary (26 July - 27 August 2018)

ViewSofia
Lifestyle and culture issue
read the article
[in Bulgarian]

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Vesselina Sarieva: One piece of curiosity and sympathy can change the world
An interview with Vesselina Sarieva about Plovdiv, culture and contemporary art
Author: Maria Kassimova

Webcafe
Online publicity and lifestyle issue
read the article
[in Bulgarian]

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Postsowjetisches Schaufenster
Valio Thenkov's installation Private Zoo on Stage, 2018 is among the subjects of an article about the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Author: Annegret Erhard

Die Welt
Daily newspaper
read the article
[in German]

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With the eyes of a girl
An article about the  exhibition "New Works" by Sirma Sarafova-Orahovac at gallery Credo Bonum, Sofia, organised by gallery Credo Bonum and Sariev Contemporary
Author: Adriana Popova

EVA
Online and print issue
read the article
[in Bulgarian]

 

RECOMMENDED EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

FLUCA season 2018 - Plovdiv

refugium 01
Video installation by Reinhold Zisser

7 September - 7 October, 2018
Opening: 7 September, 6 pm

more info here

FLUCA is a collaborative project of Open Arts Foundation and Austrian Embassy in Bulgaria

FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion
(in front of gallery SARIEV Contemporary)
40, Otets Paisiy str, Plovdiv 4000
www.openarts.info/fluca

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10 years artnewscafe

DJ party and photo exhibition for the 10th anniversary of artnewscafe

6 September 2018
4 pm - 2 am

more info here

artnewscafe
(next to gallery SARIEV Contemporary)
38, Otets paisiy str., Plovdiv 4000
www.artnewscafe.com

 

ARTISTS' EXHIBITIONS - ON VIEW

Luchezar Boyadjiev, Kamen Stoyanov and Voin de Voin

Operaismo Naturale: Ecology of the Event
Chapter 1 of Digital Ecologies

group exhibition
Curated by Dimitrina Sevova, co-curated by Katharina Swoboda and Emil Mirazchiev

With works and interventions by Donatella Bernardi, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Voin de Voin, Jonas Etter, David Jacques, Monica Ursina Jäger, knowbotiq, Dominique Koch, Marlene Maier, Boyan Manchev, Angela Melitopoulos, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, Elena Peytchinskova, Elodie Pong, Isabel Reiß, Oliver Ressler, Dorothea Rust, Kerstin Schroedinger, Bohdan Stehlik, Sandro Steudler, Axelle Stiefel, Kamen Stoyanov, Milva Stutz, Una Szeemann, Lena Maria Thüring, and Alexander Tuchaček

27 July - 5 September 2018

former tobacco warehouse​ SKLAD
16 Ekzarh Yosif str. 
4000 Plovdiv 

and 

The Ancient Bath - Center of Contemporary Art​
179 6th September str.
4000 Plovdiv
www.digital-ecologies.arttoday.org

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Pravdoliub Ivanov

14 x 14 – Survey of the Danube Region.
Individual Views. Photographic Positions.

touring exhibition of  documenta
Curated by Regina Hellwig-Schmid

Pavel Brăila, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Alexandra Croitoru, István Csákány, Biljana Djurdjević, Igor Grubić, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Magdalena Jetelová, Mladen Miljanović, Julian Palacz, Lazar Pejović, Tadej Pogačar, Jürgen Böhm,  Ivan Bazak, Irina Ozarinskaya, Nikolay Karabinovych

1 - 30 September 2018

Museum of Odessa Modern Art
5 Belinskogo str.
65014 Odessa, Ukraine
www.donumenta.de

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Pravdoliub Ivanov

Arte e Umanità: Immagine Migrante
group exhibition
Curated by Nadia Bensbih, Riccardo Lisi and Marco Stoffel

Tania Bruguera, Nicolas Cilins, Al Fadhil, Nina Haab, Hanna Hildebrand, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Michele Lapini, Ute Lennartz-Lembeck, Andrea Marioni, Waseem Al Marzouki, Marko Miladinovic, Gianni Miraglia, RadioNoBorder, Waref Abu Quba, Raubenproject, Andrea Segre, Nando Snozzi, Miki Tallone, Niels Tofahrn

16 August - 15 September 2018

Spazio Elle 
Piazza G. Pedrazzini 12
Locarno, Switzerland

www.parcourshumain.ch

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Pravdoliub Ivanov

Møenlight Sonata - quasi una fantasia
group exhibition
Curated by Rene Block

Nevin Aladağ, Darren Almond, Rosa Barba, KP Brehmer, Olga Chernysheva, Dorothee Diebold, Maria Eichhorn, Ayşe Erkmen, Ceal Floyer, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Till Junkel, Jarosław Kozłowski, Imi Knoebel, Daniel Knorr, David Krippendorff, Alicja Kwade, Simon Lewis, Bjørn Nørgaard, Navid Nuur, Sine Lewis, Alexandra Paperno, Nam June Paik, Dan Perjovschi, Sigmar Polke, Sophia Pompéry, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Superflex, Mariana Vassileva, Els Vos, Lawrence Weiner, Maaria Wirkkala

3 June - 9 September 2018

Kunstahll 44 Møen
Fanefjordgade 44
4792 Askeby, Denmark

www.44moen.dk

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Stefan Nikolaev

PRESENT
A project by Michel Van Dyck in collaboration with Isabelle Anspach, conservator of Van Buuren Museum

Bente Skjottgaard, Carole Vanderlinden, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Charlotte Vander Borght, Ritsue Mishima, Sarah Caillard, Sherrie Levine, Tatiana Wolska, Denicolai & Provoost, Benoit Plateus, Christophe Doucet, Christophe Terlinden, Damien De Lepeleire, Daniel Boccato, David Adamo, Douglas Eynon, Erwan Maheo, Gijs Milius, Filip Vervaet, François Curlet, Jan Vercruysse, Jonathan Sullam, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Koenraad Debobbeleer, Luca Vitone, Marcel Berlanger, Martin Belou, Nicolas Party, Oscar Tuazon, Peter Wächtler, Roeland Tweelinckx, Stefan Nikolaev, Stephane Barbier Bouvet, Tanguy Poujol, Takayuki Sakiyama, Vincent Chenut, Yoshiro Kimura

25 June - 30 September 2018

Museum and gardens Van Buuren
41 Avenue Léo Errera

1180 Brussels 

www.museumvanbuuren.be

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Nedko Solakov and Valio Tchenkov

Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Curated by Katerina Gregos

2 June – 28 October 2018

Riga, Latvia
www.rigabiennial.com