Two of Europe's oldest cities, Matera in southern Italy and Plovdiv in Bulgaria, are the European Capitals of Culture this year. From 4th April to 30th June art works from the Art Collection Telekom will be presented at various exhibition venues in Plovdiv.
The exhibition 'Listen To Us – Artistic Intelligence' with 70 works by 38 artists marks a culmination of the cultural events. The European Capital of Culture Plovdiv 2019 wants to point with the exhibition to the common history of the countries and the comparable life experiences of the people in the region and look beyond the national borders.
With its focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe, just 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the art works in the exhibition provide many points of departure to reflect the still difficult period of transition from socialism to democracy.
The exhibition venues in Plovdiv offer an insight into the history of the city, ranging from one of the former warehouses of the tobacco industry, some historic houses of the Turkish old town, the municipal museum in the present city centre to the Vasov National Library, a masterpiece of socialist late modernism.
Participating artists: Nevin Aladağ, Anatoly Belov, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Yane Calovski, Levan Chelidze, Danica Dakić, Braco Dimitrijević, Aleksandra Domanović, Petra Feriancova, Igor Grubić, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Nilbar Güreş, Vladimir Houdek, Hristina Ivanoska, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Sanja Iveković, Nikita Kadan, Mi Kafchin, Šejla Kameric, Lito Kattou, Luka Kedžo, Genti Korini, Eva Kot’atkova, Maria Kulikovska, Nino Kvrivishvili, Radenko Milak, Ciprian Mureşan, Lada Nakonechna, Vlad Nancă, Paulina Ołowska, Roman Ondak, Dan Perjovschi, Cristian Răduţă, Stepan Ryabchenko, Slavs & Tatars, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinović, Martina Vacheva.
Invited artists: Dimitar Genchev, Albena Mihaylova–Benji, Sasho Stoitzov, Krassimir Terziev.
*1972 in Van, Turkey, since 1973 in Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Work: Tusch-carnival
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*1977 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: Sex Medicated Rock-n-Roll
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*1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
Work: Alice´s Hole or the swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics
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*1973 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, now North Macedonia. Lives and works in Skopje.
Work: Obsessive Setting (archive prototype I)
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*1990 in Georgia. Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Work: Girl with Broken Pestle
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*1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Sarajevo and Düsseldorf, Germany.
Work: Isola Bella
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*1948 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Paris.
Work: THIS COULD BE A PLACE OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE
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*1981 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Work: Votive: Partridge
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*1977 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Lives and works in Bratislava.
Work: Untitled
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*1969 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, now Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb.
Work: East Side Story
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*1974 in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw.
Work: Iranian Film Stills
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*1977 in Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Istanbul and Vienna, Austria.
Work: Hexenkraft
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*1984 in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechia. Lives and works in Prague, Czechia.
Work: Encyclopedia of inherited isolation
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*1974 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, now North Macedonia. Lives and works in Skopje.
Work: Untitled (Artist is Not a Civil Servant)
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*1964 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Work: HALBWAHRHEIT (Half-Truth)
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*1949 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, now Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb.
Work: Women's House (Sunglasses)
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*1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: WE ARE THE PRICE
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*1976 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin, Germany.
Work: Behind the Scenes I
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*1990 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Lives and works in Athens, Greece, and London, Great Britain.
Work: Emlet
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*1986 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, now Croatia. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Work: KYKLOP I – V
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*1979 in Tirana, Albania. Lives and works in Tirana.
Work: Simulation on the Axes 5
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*1982 in Prague, Czechia. Lives and works in Prague.
Work: Group Therapy
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*1988 in Kerch, Ukraine.
Work: Homo Bulla
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*1984 in Kareli, Georgia. Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Work: 12 руб. 50 коп
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*1986 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca and Berlin, Germany.
Work: Personal Hawking
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*1980 in Travnik, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Work: 365 (the image of time) January
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*1977 in Dej, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Work: Untitled (shoelace)
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*1981 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Work: From Left to Right
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*1979 in Bucharest, Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest.
Work: Original Adidas
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*1976 in Gdańsk, Poland. Lives and works in Raba Niżna, Poland.
Work: Crossword Puzzle with Lady in Black Coat
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*1966 in Žilina, Slovakia. Lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Work: Lucky Day
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*1961 in Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Sibiu.
Work: Dialogue, from the Fish-Eye Series
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*1982 Bucharest, Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest.
Work: Failed Mission #17
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*1987 in Odessa, Ukraine. Lives and works in Odessa.
Work: Melissa
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Founded in 2006. Live and work in Berlin.
Work: Molla Nasreddin the Antimodern
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*1957 in Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Work: Reality Home
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*1947 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Lived in Zagreb, Croatia – died 2016 in Pula, Croatia.
Work: Material Value of Laziness
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*1988 Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Plovdiv and Brittany, France.
Work: Trashland
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