Doza Gallery

FOUNDATIONS Exhibition by Stanislav Belovski @sbelovski 28 May – 15 June 2026 Opening: 28 May, Thursday, 6 – 9 pm “Foundations” focuses on the current state of buildings and structures from the recent past, abandoned to the weight of time. Deserted, destroyed, corroded - these spaces once served as engines of society: places of production, meetings, services, ideas, collectives, and communities. Belovski once again departs from a contemporary fascination with urbex culture, combining nostalgia for modernism with an attraction to the “ruins of the future”, yet his perspective disrupts the romanticism of observation itself. Through detail, structure and the very foundations of these spaces, the artist inserts imaginary projections of the “here and now” - intertwining reality and imagination, architecture and personal projection, form, colour and memory. The project is realised with the financial support of the National Culture Fund. ___ Stanislav Belovski (b. 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist born, living and working in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2025, Doza Gallery presented his solo exhibition The House of the Setting Sun. Among his more significant projects are Nostalgic Dystopia (2022), MIRROR MIRROR (2020), No Reason to Leave from the Sun (2019), Make Art Not Friends (2017) and Correction of Socialism (2014).

GUIDE TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
Exhibition by Deyan Yanev @surreal_dy 
28 April – 23 May 2026 “Painting becomes a medium that does not merely communicate meaning, but literally ‘conducts’ the chemistry of the body.” — Peter Tsanev Drawing from fragmented imagery, symbolic references, and shifting visual associations, “Guide to the Unconscious” explores painting as a space where perception constantly transforms. Deyan Yanev constructs layered compositions that move between illusion, memory, and psychological tension, creating visual environments that resist fixed meaning and linear reading.

GUIDE TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
Exhibition by Deyan Yanev @surreal_dy 
28 April – 23 May 2026 Bringing together images and ideas developed over the past two decades, Guide to the Unconscious presents a series of large-scale paintings where historical references, fragmented imagery, and psychological states intersect. Through dense visual compositions and layered associations, Deyan Yanev creates environments that move between attraction, disorientation, and sensory intensity. Тhe exhibition opens a space where perception becomes unstable and constantly shifting. The paintings unfold through accumulation, illusion, and visual tension, encouraging a more instinctive and immersive way of experiencing the image. “The senses become overloaded with detail and illusion, logical thinking is exhausted, and the plastic languages begin to communicate directly with the unconscious.” — Peter Tsanev

GUIDE TO THE UNCONSCIOUS Exhibition by Deyan Yanev @surreal_dy 28 April – 23 May 2026 Deyan Yanev presents a series of large-scale paintings that move between illusion, memory, and psychological tension. Inspired by the idea of the cabinet of curiosities, the exhibition brings together fragmented images, symbolic references, and shifting visual structures that challenge the viewer’s sense of certainty and orientation. Blending historical influences with contemporary perspectives on perception and the body, the works create immersive visual environments where meaning remains unstable. Rather than offering direct narratives, the paintings invite the viewer into a sensory experience shaped by accumulation, intensity, and constant transformation.

GUIDE TO THE UNCONSCIOUS Exhibition by Deyan Yanev @surreal_dy 28 April - 23 May 2026 In “Guide to the Unconscious”, Deyan Yanev constructs a space that feels unstable - somewhere between observation and experiment. The works don’t offer a coherent world to enter, but rather fragments, tensions, and visual disruptions that resist being fully grasped. Instead of guiding the viewer toward meaning, the paintings shift attention toward experience itself - toward the moment where perception begins to slip, overload, and transform. “Painting becomes a medium that does not merely communicate meaning, but literally ‘conducts’ the chemistry of the body.” - Peter Tsanev

GUIDE TO THE UNCONSCIOUS Exhibition by Deyan Yanev @surreal_dy 28 April - 23 May 2026 Deyan Yanev’s exhibition “Guide to the Unconscious” offers no orientation; it accepts the impossibility of it. Rather than attempting to master the unconscious, it creates conditions in which it can emerge without being immediately reduced to meaning. The image does not carry a hidden message - it unfolds as an event that unsettles the very impulse to understand. “The large, enigmatic works in the exhibition embody the perpetual split between the physical existence of the painting as object and the psychological presence of the image as enigma. They interrupt chronology as a mechanism that absorbs the past and projects it into the future, creating a distinct sense of simultaneity.” — Peter Tsanev

ARS ASTRA. Notes of the Artist-Astronaut Exhibition by Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva Curated by Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov 24 March - 21 April 2026 The project’s refined aesthetic and formal coherence do not exclude Mircheva’s intellectual mischievousness. She playfully reimagines our expectations of the future: cooking as a micro-engineering act, frying eggs in hermetically sealed, nut-shaped pans to prevent them from floating away in a depressurized space; or walking a dog on the Moon, desperately trying to catch up as it leaps in giant bounds, disappearing behind craters. Thus, Ars Astra: Notes of the artist-astronaut functions as a training ground for the imagination. It does not ask whether we will reach the stars - it assumes we are already there, but have forgotten to bring the instructions. The future, then, is not sterile or cold; it is colorful, aesthetically seductive, emotional, sometimes even sentimental or slightly absurd.

ARS ASTRA | ARTIST TALK 15 April 2026, Wednesday, 6 PM Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva and the curator Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov in conversation on “Ars Astra: Notes of the Artist-Astronaut.” The discussion will explore the conceptual framework of the project, tracing how outer space shifts from a sacred, intimidating realm into a space for imagination and lifestyle-driven fantasy, and how artistic practice can function as a form of speculative anthropology of the future. What does it mean to create beyond Earth? Where does reality end and fantasy begin? And how does the role of the artist evolve in an ever-expanding world? Join us on Wednesday, 15 April at 6 PM at Doza Gallery.

ARS ASTRA. Notes of the Artist-Astronaut Exhibition by Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva Curated by Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov 24 March - 21 April 2026 Viewed through the dogmatic lens of contemporary art, the exhibition may seem unusual. Today, art often resembles a mirror held too close to the face of the present. We react, analyze, critique; galleries and museums have become spaces of diagnosis, exposing injustice, inequality, and social unrest. Yet in our insistence on remaining relevant to reality, we seem to have relinquished our right to be futurists, and the pleasure of imagining has become unfashionable. Against this backdrop, Ars Astra: Notes of the artist-astronaut is both a wink and a reminder - that beyond being witnesses and chroniclers, we can also be visionaries. That we can make space for play, for speculative lightness, for radical imagination. Because sometimes it is precisely the invented, the impossible, even the absurd, that opens up spaces reality has yet to allow.

ARS ASTRA. Notes of the Artist-Astronaut Exhibition by Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva Curated by Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov 24 March - 21 April 2026 In Ars Astra, space has lost its sacred aura. It is no longer solely an infinite, intimidating territory of the unknown, but a site of lifestyle fantasies of how an artist might exist within it. This artist does not work in a studio but in orbit, suspended somewhere between an asteroid belt and cosmic dust. Here, futurism is not a retro nostalgia but is defined through self-irony, presenting artistic practice as a long-term cosmic mission. Yet beneath this speculative lightness lie essential questions: what does it mean to be an artist when Earth is no longer the center of the universe? When identity is technologically multiplied? When moral, intellectual, and aesthetic criteria are formed not within human civilization, but within the environment of a mega-global “everything”?

ARS ASTRA. Notes of the Artist-Astronaut Exhibition by Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva Curated by Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov 24 March - 21 April 2026 According to Mircheva, the artist of the future will likely become an interstellar storyteller, a navigator and mediator. Somewhere far from the dogmas of terrestrial aesthetics, they will translate between biology, technology, algorithms, emotions, and perception, constructing artistic platforms governed by the visual laws of galaxies. In the large-scale drawings, an expressive line is employed, simultaneously resembling a pseudo-engineering sketch and a childlike drawing. The forms of the shuttles are arranged in compositions reminiscent of flowers. The machine begins to function as a biological form, a kind of cosmic flora, while the galaxy transforms into an ecosystem.

ARS ASTRA. Notes of the Artist-Astronaut Exhibition by Svetlana Mircheva @svetlanamircheva Curated by Boris Kostadinov @boris_kostadinov 24 March - 21 April 2026 The conceptual play in Svetlana Mircheva’s solo exhibition “Ars Astra: Notes of the artist-astronaut” is grounded in a kind of mythopoetic naturalism, inspired by a childhood impulse to explain the unknown through the pathos of the everyday. It is the only language we possess at that age to comprehend our existence on this Earth, within this galaxy, within this universe. The working principle of the project draws on playful strategies, accepting or rejecting absurd hypotheses, guessing, and engaging in genuine amusement, as if within a video game. Yet instead of an arcade, this unfolds in the artist’s studio, analyzing the collision between the monumental and the banal, the scientific and the ironic ease of everyday life, the deeply personal and the grand narratives of the future.