VOLUME

18.04., 18:30 – Meeting and artist talk with the exhibition artists
29.04., 11:30 – Open art workshop for children
03.05., 18:30 – Meeting and artist talk with the exhibition artists

The exhibition is implemented in partnership with Advertising Artists and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

VOLUME is an exhibition about painting as a space rather than painting as part of the space. It is a joint creative product of artists Kaliya Kalacheva and Gergana Tabakova who rethink the concepts of the avant-garde from the early 20th century about the relationship between architecture and geometric abstraction.
The installation was created over a period of 11 months, during which the two artists were in constant dialogue but respected each other’s personal understanding of the selection and use of materials and the compositional decisions. They tried to look for diverging approaches and bring them to a crossing point while building the common work.

The authors share that, “In the preparation and process of finding the forms with which to work, we looked at architectural examples, including the town of Shibam in Yemen, the architectural temple complex in Baalbek (Lebanon), the Meenakshi temple in Madurai (India), the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, temples in Ahmedabad, the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, as well as modern cities such as Tokyo and Chicago.”

In their search for the common ground between all these spaces, the two artists focused on the column, which, in addition to being a fundamental architectural element, is also a symbol deeply inscribed in collective memory. It is a connection between earth and heaven, represents a vertical line relating to the organization and orientation of the world, and is a symbol of the tree and the power of creation.
In the Volume installation, multiple columns build up a rhythmic structure in space in which one can walk around and experience the sense of a space that is both integral and made up of discrete internal fragments.

More about the artists:

Gergana Tabakova holds a master's degree in painting from the National Academy of Art (2017). She works in the field of painting. She is interested in revisiting typical concepts, everyday spaces and situations. The attempt to rethink them is a major focus of her work. Advertising Artists presented her first solo exhibition GARBAGE (2020), and in 2018 she was included in the group exhibition ALTEREGO, presenting the work of 12 contemporary female visual artists.
Gergana Tabakova has had three solo exhibitions and participated in general national and international exhibitions.
Gergana has a keen interest in the interaction between painting and other visual arts, in pursuit of which she obtained her PhD from the National Academy of Art (2022).

https://www.instagram.com/geritabakova/
https://gerganatabakova.art/

Kaliya Kalacheva holds a Master's degree in painting from the National Academy of Art. She has been awarded the Young Painter with Promising Development Award by the Edmond Demirjian Foundation. She won a place in the residency programs of Cité des arts, France and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Germany, in 2014 and 2016 respectively. In 2017, she received special recognition in the Women in the Arts competition, Orlando, Florida. 2020 brought her the UBA’s Young Artist Award at the Friends of the Sea Biennial, Burgas. In 2021, the participants in the National Painting and Sculpture Competition selected her as the winner in the Painting category. In 2018 she was included in the Advertising Artists’ group exhibition ALTEREGO. Kaliya Kalacheva's paintings are part of the collections of the Hugo Wooten Art Centre in Belgium, Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, the National Art Gallery in Sofia, the Sofia City Art Gallery, among others. Kaliya has held over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 general national and international exhibitions.

https://www.instagram.com/kaliyah_ka/
https://kaliya-ka.com/

The exhibition is implemented in partnership with Advertising Artists
Advertising Artists is an organization that promotes contemporary visual artists who work in the field of fine arts and design. The organization enables artists to freely raise their questions and share their quests while challenging established public attitudes.

www.advertisingartists.eu

Exhibition team:
Adelina Boneva: graphic designer, creator of the main vision of the project
Vasil Vasilev (Welding King Studio): designer /design, making and installation of the suspended structure/
Arch. Hristo Marev: consultant

The event is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.