🪩 Thursday at DOM — SOFIA ART WEEK 8 • Official Opening Party 🪩
Sofia Art Week opens its eighth edition at DOM with a night of performances, installations, and DJ sets exploring Genderfication — the intersection of gentrification, gender, and resistance.
The program brings together artists redefining the boundaries between performance, sound, and visual expression:
✨ Hex Pixie & Zamyarski (BG) — performance ✨ ELMA / Elitsa Mateva (BG) — performance, video & print installation ✨ BO$$Y (GR) — live act & performance ✨ Lola Göller (DE) — spoken words, performance & DJ set ✨ Julieta Intergalactica (BG) — DJ set ✨ Dssy Mssy (BG) — DJ set
📍 Club DOM 🕗 Doors 20:00 | Start 20:30 🎟️ Entrance 10 BGN / 5.11 €
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Join me and @re.born_the_support_bot for the opening of Buna Varna
03.09 18h
Largo Gallery
8, Han Krum str, Varna
re.born is an interactive video installation featuring a custom trained AI bot, who will inspire and support.
✨ RADA MATEVA (BG) - re.born ✨
Mateva’s installation features an interactive voice-bot designed to inspire and support through its responses, which are translated into abstract visuals in real time. The work becomes a living, evolving video installation reflecting discourse around motherhood, work, and gender. re.born is both artistic exploration and social commentary, gathering firsthand experiences from mothers and feeding them into AI to reframe societal norms, policies, and perceptions of gendered labour.
Rada Mateva (b. 1983, Sofia) is a video artist, director, and cultural producer. She studied Theatre and Media Arts in Nuremberg and Film at the DFFB in Berlin, where she developed a practice combining live interaction, video, analogue and digital methods, and AI. Her works have been shown internationally, including at Fieber Festival (Berlin), Volumfestival (Norway), Videoholika (Varna), and Days of Bulgarian Documentary Cinema (Berlin). She is the founder of Avanti Film Discourse, a Berlin festival for experimental cinema, and co-owner of the motion graphics studio allnightsreserved.
BUNA vol.3 Discovery and Otherness in the Era of 5.0 is realised with the financial support of @minculturebg , @if_bulgarie , @francebulgarie , @varnamunicipality.online , @the_singer_zahariev_foundation , @sloinbulgaria .
Special thanks to our partners from @campus90.varna , @topmobility.bg , Euphoria Brew, @devin.mineralna , @clubmate_bulgaria , @winegroundvarna , Tunnellight, @cafesrichard , @mentholbeachbar , @siteground
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15.30 галерия Куб, Топлоцентрала
🔶Дискусия, посветена на невидимия труд – физически, емоционален, грижовен и социален – който често остава извън признанието и възнаграждението.
🔶Дискусията ще е на английски език без превод. 👉 Снежана Кръстева е куратор и преподавател, съосновател и съдиректор на Източнобалканския Институт за Изкуство и Архитектура в България.
👉 Калина Дренска е социална феминистка, която работи по темите на социалното възпроизводство и труда. Тя е част от българските феминистки колективи ЛевФем и FemBunt.
👉 Алесандро Винчентели е международен куратор и продуцент, базиран във Великобритания и Атина, Гърция. Той е бивш куратор на изложби и изследвания в BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, където работи в продължение на 16 години.
👉 Дорейда Джогу е визуална артистка от албански произход, завършила Атинската академия за изящни изкуства през 2021 г. Нейното художествено изследване се фокусира върху въпросите на идентичността и етничността, като експериментира с разнообразни материали и техники.
Модератор : Рада Матева
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3.30pm Gallery Cube, Toplocentrala
🔶A talk on invisible labour – physical, emotional, care-based and social – that often goes unrecognized and unrewarded.
🔶The talk will be in English without translation.
👉 Snejana Krsteva is a curator and educator, co-founder and co-director of the East Balkan Institute for Art and Architecture in Bulgaria.
👉 Kalina Drenska is a socialist feminist working on issues of social reproduction and labour. She is a member of the Bulgarian feminist collectives LevFem and FemBunt.
👉 Alessandro Vincentelli is an international curator and producer based in the UK and Athens, Greece. He is the former Curator of Exhibitions and Research at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, where he worked for 16 years.
👉 Doreida Xhogu is a visual artist of Albanian origin who graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2021.
Moderator: Rada Mateva
