INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART - Sofia 2017 - First-Person Talks 

INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART - Sofia 2017 
First-Person Talks 

Summer educational program
Organized by Open Arts Foundation and SARIEV Contemporary

In 2017, the contemporary art educational platform “Introduction to contemporary art”, organised by Sariev Contemporary and Open Arts Foundation is taking place not once but twice – in the summer and autumn. The summer round of lectures, named “First-person Talks”, combined two main themes: “Everything you have ever wanted to know about women in art* *but you can't find in the textbooks” reflected on women in art, their part and influence; together with Irina Genova, Maria Vasileva, Miglena Nikolchina and Rada Bukova. “Potemkin Villages, home and abroad. Conversation French contemporary artists from The Ricard Foundation Award and curators” introduced the French contemporary art through conversation with some of the most intriguing French artists - Bruno Serralongue, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet and Marie Voignier, and curators Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, art director of Plovdiv 2019, and Pierre Bal-Blanc, curator from the team of documenta 2017 Athens-Kassel. Special treat was the lecture by Railand Schumacher, curator of the collection of Deutche Telekom, part of Collector's Forum.



Conversation with the curator Pierre Bal-Blanc 
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[in English]

Collectors' Forum - The Deutsche Telekom Collection. Lecture by Rainald Schumacher
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[in English]

Rada Boukova: A well-dressed woman
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[in Bulgarian]

Irina Genova: Women artists and art institutions/ What (else) do women want? Questions and critical response in the artistic practices today
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[in Bulgarian]

Maria Vassileva: The group “8th of March”. Conscious and unconscious manifestations of the Bulgarian feminism. Conversation with some of the group’s members
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[in Bulgarian]

Miglena Nikolchina: From duplication to horror: look through Julia Kristeva
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[in Bulgarian]