 
Newsletter July 2019
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ARTISTS - UPCOMING
Rada Boukova
 
 Orient 2
 group show
Curated by Michal Novotný
 
 Argišt Alaverdyan, Rada Boukova, Zuzanna Czebatul, Marek Delong & Anna Slama, Anna Daučíková, Wojtek Doroszuk, Anders Grønlien, Kaspars Grošhevs, Martin Horák, Baptiste Charneux, Šimon Kadlčák, Shifra Kazhdan, Alina Kleytman, Lenka Klodová, Ádám Kokesch, Martin Kohout, Ieva Kraule, Marlena Kudlicka, KwieKulik, Marek Meduna, Daria Melnikova, Vlad Nancă, Deimantas Narkevičius, Richard Nikl, Jan Pfeiffer, Jaakko Pallasvuo & Anni Puolakka, Lucia Elena, Průša, Jan Šerých, Jiří Thýn, Ondřej Vicena
 
 12 July - 6 October 2019
 Opening: 11 July, 6 pm
 
 Kunsthalle Bratislava
 Nám. SNP 12, Bratislava
 Slovakia
 www.kunsthallebratislava.sk
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Luchezar Boyadjiev
 
 All That We Have in Common
 group show
Curated by Mira Gakjina and Jovanka Popova
 
 Ana Adamović (Serbia), Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria), Velimir Žernovski (North Macedonia), Flaka Haliti (Kosovo), Ibro Hasanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hristina Ivanoska (North Macedonia), Gjorgje Jovanovik (North Macedonia), Alban Muja (Kosovo), Ahmet Ögüt (Turkey), Maria Papadimitriou (Greece), Antonis Pittas (Greece), Renata Poljak (Croatia), Anri Sala (Albania / France)
 
 17 July - 15 September 2019
 
 MOMus - Experimental Center for the Art
 Warehouse B1, Port
 541 10 Thessaloniki, Greece
 www.cact.gr
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Nedko Solakov
 
 Fly Me to the Moon. The Lunar landing: 50 Years Later
 group show
Curated by Thorsten Sadowsky with Christina Penetsdorfer and Tina Teufel
 Conception by Cathérine Hug, Kunsthaus Zürich
 
 20 July - 3 November 2019
 Opening: 19 July, 7 pm
 
 Museum der Moderne Salzburg
 Mönchsberg 32 
 5020 Salzburg, Austria 
 www.museumdermoderne.at
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Martina Vacheva
КОРЕНИ / Roots / Wurzeln
 solo show
 within the exhibition series "6 1/2 Weeks"
 
 12 July - 25 August 2019
 
 Opening:
 12 July, 6:30 pm:
 Welcome by the curators Annika Schank and Peter Daners
 
 Afterwards in the foyer:
 Drinks and snacks
 
 DJ sets from
 nearly dog (Balkan Beats & Bulgarian 80s Pop / Plovdiv)
 Eagles of Def Leppard (Rock'n'Roll / Vienna)
 
 Museum Folkwang
 Museumsplatz 1
 45128 Essen
 www.museum-folkwang.de
UPCOMING SHOW
BACKGROUND: Young Artists from Plovdiv 
 group show
 Part of the platform "BACKGROUND: Young Artists" by Sariev Contemporary
 
  
 Mitch Brezounek, Valko Chobanov, Velizar Dimchev, Dimitar Genchev, Yavor Kostadinov,
 Lyubomir Krastev, Dimitar Shopov, Trifon Tashev, Martina Vacheva
  
 5 July – 30 August 2019
  
 Program opening weekend:
  
 5 July – exhibition opening:
 6 pm – opening at gallery Sariev Contemporary
 7 pm – opening at Danchova house
 8 pm – opening at Coffee&Gallery Cu29
  
 9 pm – exhibition opening party, music selectors – the participating artists, FLUCA – Austrian cultural pavilion 
  
 6 July:
 Portfolio day - closed event, Artnewscafe, Plovdiv
 7 pm – Screening of the film "3d DOGS" by Dimitar Shopov and talk, Lucky cinema
 
 Locations:
 The exhibition will take place at Danchova house, SARIEV Contemporary, Coffee&Gallery Cu29, Artnewscafe
 Parallel program at FLUCA – Austrian cultural pavilion and Lucky cinema
  
 Link to map of the exhibition locations
 
 link to the Facebook event
 
 
 The project is part of the program of “Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019”
  
 The exhibition is co-organised by Municipal Institute "Ancient Plovdiv"
 
 
 SARIEV Contemporary
 40, Otets Paisiy str, Plovdiv 4000
 www.sariev-gallery.com
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
 
 FLUCA 2019 Programme in JULY
FLUCA is a collaborative project of Open Arts Foundation and Austrian Embassy in Bulgaria
 
 FLUCA 2019 is part of the official programme of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019
 
 
 July programme:
 
 5 July, 9 pm – Party for the opening of the group show BACKGROUND: Young Artists from Plovidv, music sellection – the participating artists     
 6 July, 8 pm – Lena Ka  (Vienna) - techno music performance + after party with Lena Ka and Stanislav Genadiev
 11 July, 9 pm – Elisa Calosi (Berlin) - presents The Congo Tribunal - a film project by Milo Rau     
 8 pm – Рarty with Startrax, movieman & Victor
 12 July, 8 pm – Ursula Maria Probst (Vienna) presents Transcultural Emancipation and Hello Common Ground! Works by Anna Jermolaewa, Axel Stockburger, Vilte Svarplyte, Jianan Qu
 18 July, 7:30 pm – Screening of films about the participating artists in the group show BACKGROUND: Young Artists from Plovidv, panel discussion with Vesselina Sarieva and the artists
 19 July, 8 pm – What Would Winning Look Like? – No New „ New Deal“ Works by Sergey Kishchenko, Sonia Leimer, Suzy Léger, Jakob Neulinger, Female Obsession. Curated by Ursula Maria Probst (Vienna) + FLUCA Party
 24 July, 9 pm – Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film presents a program by Johann Lurf (Vienna)
 26 July, 9 pm – Weisses Licht - a film program by Golden Pixel Cooperative, (Vienna).  Presentation of Katharina Swoboda and Lisa Truttmann
 
 
 For more information visit FLUCA's facebook
 
 
 FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion
 (in front of gallery SARIEV Contemporary)
 40, Otets Paisiy str, Plovdiv 4000
 www.fluca.info
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100 artists in the city - ZAT 2019
 a tribute exhibition
 Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc et Jean-Christophe Marti, Nils Alix-Tabeling, Wilfrid Almendra, Ei Arakawa, Neil Beloufa, Abdelkader Benchamma, Christophe Berdaguer & Marie  Pejus, Hicham Berrada, Olivier Cablat, Roberto Cabot, Armelle Caron, Hsia Fei Chang, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Gaëlle Choisne, Collectif CHAVKI, Collectif IN EXTREMIS, Collectif BONJOUR!, Collectif GELLY, Collectif OPAVIVARÀ!, Collectif SOMMES, Laetitia Delafontaine & Grégory Niel, Jean Denant, Gabriel Desplanque, Braco Dimitrijevic, Noël Dolla, Yann Dumoget, Mimosa Echard et Anne Bourse, Dominique Figarella, Agnès Fornells, Gloria Friedmann, Mathilde Geldhof, Hadrien Gerenton, Lola Gonzalez, Sylvain Grout & Yann Mazeas, Mona Hatoum, Fabrice Hyber, Sabrina Issa pour LAAB, Pierre Joseph, Zsofia Keresztes, Eve Laroche-Joubert, Mehryl Levisse, Ariane Loze, Jean-Charles Massera, Ramuntcho Matta, Clémentine Melois, Mathieu Mercier, Enzo Mianes, Melik Ohanian, Bruno Peinado, Pierre Peres, Julien Previeux, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Jimmy Richer, Agnès Rosse, Vivien Roubaud, Franck Scurti, Bruno Serralongue, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jeanne Susplugas, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Laurent Tixador, VOXELS +  Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier
 
 8 June - 28 July 2019
 
 MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain
 Place de la Comédie
 34000, Montpellier
 www.moco.art
PUBLICATION
Selected Works And Random Images
 Vikenti Komitski
 
 Published on occasion of Sariev Contemporary's first participation at LISTE  where it presented solo project of Vikenti Komitski
 
 On the Cover: Ready Found, 2017
 Angelika Seppi, text, 2019
 Nikola Njavro, text, 2018
 Angelika Seppi, text, 2015
 Vikenti Komitski, layout and design, 2019
 Sariev Contemporary gallery, publisher, 2019
 Printed at Rezon-Spektar, Sofia
 
 Language: English
 34 pages, color, 24 x 19 cm 
 
 Price: 5 euro / 10 leva
 
 Plovdiv, 2019
 ISBN978-619-91195-1-8
RECENT MEDIA
SPECIAL FEATURE: LISTE 2019 (Part 2)
 SARIEV Contemporary's booth at  the recent LISTE 2019, presenting the gallery's artist Vikenti Komitski, is among the curated selection of documentation of the art fair published by Art Viewer
 
 Art  Viewer
 online issue
 view the selection
 [in English]
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Neues Team – konstante Qualität
 SARIEV Contemporary's first participation at LISTE (10-16 June 2019) is among the highlights of DARE Magazin's review of the art fair
 
 DARE Magazin
 issue on art and culture
 read the article
 [in German]
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Stefan Nikolaev at SARIEV Contemporary
 A publication about the recent exhibition "Be Yourself No Matter What They Say" of Stefan Nikolaev
 at SARIEV Contemporary (17 May - 28 June 2019)
 
 Art  Viewer
 online issue
 view the publication
 [in English]
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SARIEV Contemporary presents: "BACKGROUND: Young Artists form Plovdiv"
 An article about the upcoming group show "BACKGROUND: Young Artists form Plovdiv", which is opening
 on 5 July and will take place at several locations around the city
 
 View Sofia
 online issue
 read the article
 [in Bulgarian]
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Stefan Nikolaev 
 An article about SARIEV Contemporary's represented artist Stefan Nikolaev and some of his most prominent works in public space
 
 Public Art
 monthly public art magazine
 [in Korean]
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How We Live
 An interview with SARIEV's represented artist Rada Boukova about the Bulgarian National Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (11 May – 24 November 2019 
 
 Bravacasa
 print issue
 [in Bulgarian]
ARTISTS' EXHIBITIONS - ON VIEW
Rada Boukova
Pavilion of the Republic of Bulgaria
 58th International Art Exhibition
 La Biennale di Venezia
 
 Rada Boukova and Lazar Lyutakov
 HOW WE LIVE
 Curator Vera Mlechevska
 
 11 May - 24 November 2019
 
 Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
 Palazzo Giustinian Lolin
 San Marco 2893, Venezia
 www.howwelive-pavilion.com
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Pravdoliub Ivanov
 
 The Life of Others is Somehow Easier
 solo show
 Curator Monika Szewczyk
 28 June - 22 August 2019
 
 Arsenal Gallery
 Adama Mickiewicza 2
 15-222 Bialystok, Poland
 www.galeria-arsenal.pl
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Nedko Solakov
 
 Highlights for a Future
 The Collection (1)
 group show
 Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Artur Barrio, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, N. Dash, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Mekhitar Garabedian, Zvi Goldstein, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Ann Veronica Janssens, Surasi Kusolwong, Jac Leirner, Mark Manders, Panamarenko, Zhang Peili, Wilhelm Sasnal, Nedko Solakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Lois Weinberger, James Welling
 
 16 March - 29 September 2019
 
 S.M.A.K.
 Jan Hoetplein 1,
 9000 Gent, Belgium
 www.smak.be
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Kamen Stoyanov
 
 24th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art
 Dimensions of Publicness
 
 Participants in the juried exhibitions - contemporary art:
 
 Agim Sulaj, Akihiko Tsukamoto, Alan Teller, Aldo Giannotti, Alessandro Rolandi, Andrey Vrabchev, Antoaneta Vasileva Obretenova- Antoni, Aseel Alyaqoub, Atanas Djonov, Atom Theatre, Boris Misirkov and Georgi Bogdanov, Borut Krajnc, Chris Alton, Craig Fisher, Damyan Krassimirov Damyanov, Derek Curtis, Desislav Lilkov, Destructive Creation, Dilek Alkan, Dimitar Traychev, Gaby Wolodarski, Gary Manning Gowans, Hans Michael Bittner, Hongshuo, Ivan Petkov – Straschmir, Jordan Pankov /J.Pank/, Kaloyan Iliev-Kokimoto, Kamen Stoyanov, Klein Stefan, Krasimir Panev Stoichkov, Liliya Kalcheva and Ivaylo Hristov, M. Cevahir Akbaş, Maayan Sophia Weisstub, Marcelina Rydelek, Maritsa Kolcheva, Masoumeh Karimi, Mohamed Ismail, Nadja Verena Marcin, Neno Belchev, Nevena Ekimova, Nikolina Dzhanovska, Pallavi Singh, Pavel Tsarov, Dimitart Stoitsov and Ivan Karastanev, Petar Petsin, Plamen Kondov, Qijingyan, Radoslava Guirguinova, Rebecca Moss, Rosina Pencheva, Saito, Mikio and Aoi Swimming, Samah Hamdi, Sid And Jim, Simon Menner, Spike Dennis, Stoyan Dechev, Thomas Cardew & Katarina Rankovic, Vasilena Gankovska, Vasilis Alexandrou, Venelin Shurelov, Vladislav Hristov, Yu Cai, Zara Alexandrova and Zoran Georgiev
 
 17 May - 30 September 2019
 
 Museum of Humour and Satire
 68 Bryanska St.
 5300 Gabrovo, Bulgaria
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Kamen Stoyanov
 
 Evidence
 international group show
 Curated by Alenka Trebucak
 21 June - 8 September 2019
 
 Mestna Galerija, City Art Gallery of Ljubljana
 Mestni Trg 5, 
 Ljublljana, Slovenia
 www.mgml.si
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Martina Vacheva
33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
 “Crack Up – Crack Down"
 Curated by Slavs and Tatars
 
 Alenka Pirman with KULA, Amanda Ross-Ho, Anja Wutej, Anna Uddenberg, Arthur Fournier with Raphael Koenig, Augustin Maurs, Boštjan Gorenc (aka Pižama), Cevdet Erek, Dozie Kanu, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Endre Tot, Ferdinand Kriwet, Flaka Haliti, Giorgi Xaniashvili, Hamja Ahsan, Hinko Smrekar, Honza Zamojski, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lin May Saeed, Marlie Mul, Martina Vacheva, Martine Gutierrez, Nicole Wermers, Pablo Bronstein, Sachiko Kazama, Stane Jagodič, Tala Madani, Woody de Othello, XIYADIE, Zhanna Kadyrova
 
 7 June - 29 September 2019
 
 International Centre of Graphic Arts
 Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3
 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
 www.mglc-lj.si