August 31 – September 7 – Little Bird Place Gallery
Opening: 31st August (Thursday) – 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
Welcome to the first of two Little Bird Artist Residency exhibitions!
We present you Iva Damyanova, Kalin Mihov, Sibila Kerelezova, Silvana Ilieva and Hristiyana Yordanova.
See all works from the exhibition HERE!
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After the successful and inspiring two editions of the Little Bird Artist Residency, the Little Bird Place Gallery and the contemporary art and culture platform Art and Culture Today continued the initiative and gave 10 young Bulgarian contemporary artists the opportunity to create in the residency located in an authentic old house in the village of Leshten, in the period June-July 2023.
The ten artists selected to participate in the “MADE IN LESHTEN 2023” residency program at the LITTLE BIRD ARTIST RESIDENCY in the village of Leshten are:
Iva Damyanova (www.instagram.com/iamdamyanov/)
Iva Ivanova (www.ivanovaiva.com/) (www.instagram.com/ivaisdrawing/)
Yordan Velkov (www.instagram.com/yordan.velkov/)
Kalin Mihov (www.instagram.com/sharo.kalin/)
Mirela Karadzhova (www.instagram.com/mama.avenira/)
Sibila Kerelezova (www.instagram.com/sibilakerelezova/)
Silvana Ilieva (www.silvanailieva.com)
Stefka Benisheva (stefkabenisheva.co/) (www.instagram.com/fool_image/)
Hristiyana Yordanova (www.instagram.com/nqma_vreme/)
Yana Vasileva – Poppy (www.instagram.com/yana.y.vasileva)
All of them explored the themes of nature, biological world and ecology through different contemporary visual media.
The second exhibition with participants Iva Ivanova, Yordan Velkov, Mirela Karadzhova, Stefka Benisheva and Yana Vasileva – Poppy will open on September 12 (Tuesday) at 18:00.
Curators and consultants during the residency and the final exhibitions are art historians Teodora Konstantinova and Radoslav Mehandzhiyski from Art & Culture Today (Art and Culture Today / Contemporary Art and Culture).
The project is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund under the program “PROGRAMME FOR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS”.
