“IRA.” 👹 Part of Pink Mindset and Lemon Ears, a collaborative project rooted in the generative logic of Cadavre Exquis, created with @josecbs_404 ✨Ceramic sculpture created during the residency at @longquanceramicresidency 🩷 The anatomy of anger.
• Head (Lora): The head draws from contemporary digital culture, specifically the exaggerated “an-gry face” meme of SpongeBob SquarePants, capturing the absurdity and intensity of sudden rage.
• Torso (Jose): The torso depicts a woman in a confrontational stance, her hand transformed into a large, accusing finger. Hidden behind her, the other hand takes the form of a Doberman’s head- a metaphor for how hands become weapons during a con-flict. It represents stored aggression and the impatience that accumulates as an argument escalates.
• Legs (Lora): The legs are set in a tense, aggressive stance, captured in the mid-motion of stomping on the floor, ready for a physical or emotional fight. ✨🕺🏼🧚🏻♀️👹
Did you hear? 🫢
2 exhibition tours coming ahead for those of you who missed the openings or simply want to enjoy the works again in a conversation with the artists. Here’s the plan:
🏄♀️Today (June 13) at 6:30 PM we meet at @charta.art.gallery for Lora Nestorova’s @lorcentric exhibition and continue the tour at 19:15 in the Ministry of Council underpass for Lisa Ertrel @lisa_errtel and Jannis Zell’s @janniszell Spolia.
🏄♂️Tomorrow (June 14) at 1:00 PM we meet at @puntagallery with @paul_riedmueller & @valko.chobanov for a tour of the As You Wish exhibition.
📣Important! @ko_op_sofia will be closed today and tomorrow due to a dynamic schedule, but on Sunday (June 15) you are all welcome to visit the collective show from 3 to 7 PM! 😎
See you! 🐝
📷: @mihail_novakov
//FIG. is realised with the financial support of @nationalculturefund and is part of the cultural calendar of Sofia Municipality
🌸Happy first solo exhibition to this gorgeous young ceramicist Lora Nestorova @lorcentric , who not only presented graciously her diploma work from @keramika.nbu , but captured us all with charm, ritual and a bit of magic.
To Be Reborn You First Have To Die A Little is inspired by ancient cultures and myths, particularly the Mayan & Aztec civilization, yet vibrant colors and humor add a playful but thought-provoking dimension to it. 🏺🏄♀️
If you by any chance missed it, go visit @charta.art.gallery till June 30. Now off we go to the underpass next to the Ministry of Council for the opening of @lisa_errtel & @janniszell ‘s Spolia.
📷: @mihail_novakov
//The event is realised with the financial support of @nationalculturefund and is part of the cultural calendar of Sofia Municipality.
Meet the Artist: Lora Nestorova
To Be Reborn, You First Have to Die a Little solo show at @charta.art.gallery 10.06 – 30.06
Born in Sofia in 2001, Lora Nestorova @lorcentric lives and works in her hometown. Her practice is rooted in ceramics and porcelain, shaped through her studies at New Bulgarian University.
Drawing inspiration from ancient cultures – especially the Mayan & Aztec civilization – Lora’s work reimagines mythology through a contemporary lens. With bold colors and sharp humor, her sculptures balance reverence with play, creating space for both reflection and surprise.
She has exhibited in San Stefano Gallery and Serdika Gallery, and internationally in Porcelain of China: Azure of the Sky and at Ceramic Art Venue in Jingdezhen, China.
🏺Her work honors cultural legacy while interpreting it for a contemporary world.
Stay tuned for more info on fig.bg
//The project is implemented by the support of @nationalculturefund and is part of the cultural calendar of Sofia Municipality, section "Significant Events".
👀Every edition of the festival debuts a solo show by a young artist – FIG. 5 welcomes Lora Nestorova @lorcentric !
To Be Reborn, You First Have to Die a Little
Lora Nestorova
10.06 – 30.06 | @charta.art.gallery
A mythic world sculpted in ceramic. Lora Nestorova’s graduation project bridges ancient Aztec and Mayan legends with personal memory, reimagining gods as vivid archetypes. Divided into two series – colorful figures of sacrifice and monochrome visions of apocalypse – her works explore the cycles of death, rebirth, and everything in between.
Ceramics as myth, emotion as ritual.
Don’t miss it.
More information on fig.bg
//The project is implemented by the support of @nationalculturefund and is part of the cultural calendar of Sofia Municipality, section "Significant Events".
