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Exhibition by Alexandra Chaushova with curator Desislava Dimova 30.04 – 20.06.2025 Opening: Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 p.m. Vaska Emanuilova Gallery presents a solo exhibition by artist Alexandra Chaushova with curator Desislava Dimova within the framework of the program "Meeting Place". The event is part of the special exhibition program marking the 120th anniversary of the birth of Vaska Emanuilova.… >>>

In the context of the Instituto Susch project to create an archive of the work of women artists from Eastern Europe, in which FBIC is a partner, Dessislava Dimova gave a lecture on the work of Tekla Alexieva and Stanka Tsonkova-Usha. You can see the lecture in the link below. https://www.muzeumsusch.ch/en/2198/Dessislava-Dimova-The-Art-of-Ordinary-Life-Women-Artists-in-Bulgaria >>>

On January 16, 2025, a lecture was held at the Sofia City Art Gallery within the framework of the exhibition "Thekla Alexieva. Encyclopedia of the Immeasurable" with lecturer Desislava Dimova, the topic of the lecture: Thekla Alexieva. "Enchanting Everyday Life". >>>

The Bulgarian Art and Culture Foundation continues its activities in researching and presenting Bulgarian art around the world. The Foundation is a partner of the Instituto Susch – a project of Museum Such, Switzerland, in the research and archiving of the work of women artists in Bulgaria, in the context of the history of art from Eastern and Central Europe. From 2023, the Instituto… >>>

Curator: Desislava Dimova April 4 – May 9, 2024 at Swimming Pool, Sofia. “Every historical representation seems to be determined by ideology. But ideology is elusive. It cannot be declared false, it cannot be called a lie, because no one would support a lie. But it also could not be… >>>

The Bulgarian Art and Culture Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of the research on the proposal for the donation of a collection of Bulgarian contemporary art to the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. Since 2018, art historian Desislava Dimova, with the help of her Bulgarian colleagues, has been working with curators from the Center to familiarize them with the history and trends in Bulgarian contemporary art… >>>

DESPOINA is a curatorial project by Desislava Dimova, which initiates collaborations with artists and writers around the themes of the ecology of life, ritual as a form of communication with the world, and the virtual world as part of the nature around us. DESPOINA gives space to what (yet) cannot be called art – conversations, inspirations, intuitions and… >>>

March 22 – April 13, 2023 Opening March 22 (photos) DOZA Gallery (photos) Curators: Vera Mlechevska and Desislava Dimova With the participation of: Veneta Androva, Lachezar Boyadzhiev, Martina Vacheva, Mariela Gemisheva, Alla Georgieva, Geri Georgieva, Ivo Dimchev, Orlin Dvoryanov and the group Kukuv den, Vladimir Ivanov, Pravdolyub Ivanov, Tsvetan Krastev, Ventseslav Kostov, Albena Mihaylova – Benji, Ivan… >>>

Meeting-talk with Romanian curator Maria Rush Boyan on strategies for presenting contemporary Romanian art around the world. Monday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m., Credo Bonum Gallery The meeting is part of the lecture program of the exhibition "Several Ways to Win the World", with curators: Desislava Dimova and Vera Mlechevska at Doza Gallery from March 22-April 13, 2023… >>>

On February 15 at 6:00 PM in the Ballroom of the Palace (NHG), 1 Knyaz Alexander Square, the Director of the National Museum of Modern Art "Centre Georges Pompidou" Xavier Re will deliver a lecture on the topic - The Museum of Art Today: Collections, Financing and Audience Development. Simultaneous translation into French/Bulgarian. After the lecture, a conversation with… >>>

Mr. Xavier Re – Director General of the Georges Pompidou Center, Mr. Nicolas Liuchi-Gutnikov – Curator and Director of the Kandinsky Library at the Center will arrive in Sofia for an official visit on February 15 and 16, 2023. The visit is at the invitation of the Bulgarian Art and Culture Foundation and is being carried out with the assistance of the French Institute, Sofia,… >>>

The project “Collection of Bulgarian Contemporary Art – Pompidou Center, Paris” is being renewed. “The good news is that we are expecting a visit from the new director of the center. The project was interrupted due to the pandemic in its final part, when we had to review the final selection of works and present it to the Acquisitions Committee at the center.” This is what he said in an interview with… >>>

In an official letter, Mr. Xavier Re confirmed the Centre Pompidou's interest in the project, as well as his desire to visit Bulgaria "as an expression of support to the Bulgarian Art and Culture Foundation and its partners, in their effort to help us build this groundbreaking and key collection, which we consider an important perspective for our museum." >>>

On August 30, 2022, Desislava Dimova met with the new director of the Center – Mr. Xavier Re and the director of the Kandinsky Library – Mr. Nikola Liuchi-Gutnikov. The meeting aimed to renegotiate the continuation of the project for the donation of contemporary Bulgarian art by the new directorate of Pompidou. Mr. Xavier Re confirmed the readiness of… >>>

The Director of the Centre Georges Pompidou – Paris, Bernard Blisten, arrived with his team in Sofia on June 2, 2018 at the invitation of Desislava Dimova. He and his colleague, curator Nikola Gutnikov, gave a lecture at the French Institute in Sofia, presenting the methods and principles of work on creating and organizing collections for the museum.… >>>

Following an invitation from art historian Desislava Dimova, the Centre Georges Pompidou, represented by its director Bernard Blistin, officially confirmed its interest in a joint study of contemporary Bulgarian art. The ultimate goal of this study is to identify the possibility of creating, based on donations, a collection of contemporary Bulgarian art (according to museum classification, these are works after… >>>