Art Today Association“

Week of Contemporary Art
Thirty-Second Edition
03.09.–02.10.2026

BUG IN REALITY

This year’s edition of the Week of Contemporary Art, “Bug in Reality,” looks at the moments when an apparently stable order begins to shift. The systems we rely on — social, technological, political, or personal — do not always function as we expect. Sometimes an error, interruption, or deviation occurs, disrupting the established logic and briefly opening up another perspective on reality.

The exhibition brings together works by Anton Stoianov, Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heiman, Dumisani Karamanски, Donka Pavlova, Evy Schubert, Krasimir Dobrev, Nadya Genova, Sevdalina Kochevska, Simeon Stoilov, and Stoyan Dechev.. Their works move across different media and artistic approaches, united by an interest in states of instability in which the familiar begins to change. The personal and the social, the real and the virtual, the visible and the invisible intertwine, creating spaces of uncertainty, tension, and possibility.

Alongside the exhibition in the gallery, Sevdalina Kochevska will carry out a guerrilla action in the urban environment, while Simeon Stoilov Stoilov will present an installation in public space. These interventions extend the field of the exhibition and bring the idea of the “bug” into the immediate environment of the city, where the established boundaries between art and everyday life, observation and participation, can be temporarily disrupted.

Curator: Emil Mirazchiev

The exhibition will take place at the City Art Gallery – Plovdiv, 15 Knyaz Alexander I St., 4000 Plovdiv.
Opening: 3 September 2026, 18:30–20:00

The project is funded by Plovdiv Municipality and is part of the 2026 Cultural Events Calendar, with the support of Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.

Media partners: BNT2, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Въпреки.com, Katra FM, Pod Tepeto, Kapana.

“Week of Contemporary Art” is a project of the Art Today Association, a member of the international network of German cultural societies abroad of the Goethe-Institut.

Art Today Association
presents the nineteenth edition of

ART POSITIVE
(De)gradation
03 April – 06 May 2026
Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv

This year’s theme, (De)gradation, focuses on processes of transition: between development and decay, accumulation and loss, stability and disruption.
The exhibition brings together artistic projects that explore these states on a personal, social, and visual level. At its core are transformations—visible and invisible, gradual or abrupt—both in society and within art itself.
In the context of a time marked by instability and shifting meanings, the presented works provoke, question, and open new perspectives. Here, (de)gradation is not viewed solely as decline, but also as a possibility for the emergence of new forms, structures, and meanings.

Artists
Adelina Zlatareva • Antonia Kostova • Vesela Statkova
Vesko Velev • Velina Hristova • Georgi Stanchev • Defne G?ler
Eva Petkova • Evgeni Mladenov • Emil Mirazchiev
Zarina Marinova • Zdravka Rubin • Ivan Karev • Mia Novakova
Nadya Genova • Natasha Kyupova • Osman Yuseinov • Petar Kochevski
Reinhard Manz • Sarkis Nersesyan • Sevdalina Kochevska
Sonya Mitova • Strahil Penev • Tsvetan Radenkov

Opening
03 April 2026, 18:00 – 20:00
Kapana Gallery
29 Rayko Daskalov St., Plovdiv

The project is funded by the Municipality of Plovdiv and is part of the city’s Cultural Calendar for 2026.

In partnership with the Goethe-Institut.
“Art Positive” is a project by Art Today Association, a member of the international network of German cultural societies abroad affiliated with the Goethe-Institut.

Art Today Association

Week of Contemporary Art
Thirty-first edition
04–30.09.2025 г.

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