MADE IN LESHTEN 2023 | Residency Exhibition #2 of Young Bulgarian Visual Artists.

September 12 – September 17 – Little Bird Place Gallery.

Opening: September 12th (Tuesday) from 18:00 to 21:00.

Welcome to the second Little Bird Artist Residency exhibition under the Made in Leshten 2023 project!

We present you Iva Ivanova, Yordan Velkov, Mirela Karadzhova, Stefka Benisheva and Yana Vasileva – Poppy.

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After the successful and inspiring two editions of the Little Bird Artist Residency, the Little Bird Place Gallery and the contemporary art and culture platform Art and Culture Today continued the initiative and gave 10 young Bulgarian contemporary artists the opportunity to create in the residency located in an authentic old house in the village of Leshten, in the period June-July 2023.

The ten artists selected to participate in the “MADE IN LESHTEN 2023” residency program at the LITTLE BIRD ARTIST RESIDENCY in the village of Leshten are:

Iva Damyanova,

Iva Ivanova,

Yordan Velkov,

Kalin Mihov,

Mirela Karadzhova,

Sibila Kerelezova,

Silvana Ilieva,

Stefka Benisheva,

Hristiyana Yordanova,

Yana Vasileva – Poppy .

All of them explored the themes of nature, biological world and ecology through different contemporary visual media.

Curators and consultants during the residency and the final exhibitions are art historians Teodora Konstantinova and Radoslav Mehandzhiyski from Art & Culture Today (Art and Culture Today / Contemporary Art and Culture).

The project is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund under the program “PROGRAMME FOR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS”.