Smoke. Tobacco Stories.

12 January – 30 March 2019

Opening: 11 January, 6pm
Plovdiv, 16 Exarch Yosif Str, floors 2 and 3
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun, 11am – 7pm

The exhibition "SMOKE. Tobacco Stories" is one in a series of events created especially for the opening of the Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019 initiative. Putting on view texts, photographs, videos and artefacts, and presented in an innovative set design, the exhibition offers its guests an opportunity to relive history by taking part in the pasts of Plovdiv and Bulgaria, experiencing them through tobacco and the tobacco industry. The show is dedicated to the people who created Tobacco City, its workers and the whole economic and cultural mechanism that tobacco has kept in motion for decades. The story covers a 150-year period, starting from the nicotine traces that the Ottoman Empire left through the first Plovdiv-held economic exhibition, up to the Macedonian liberation movement, workers' strikes, wars, foreign policy and the various shocks to the political system.

Curated by Vessela Nozharova. Concept and texts by Zornitsa Hristova. Historical Research by Dr Stanislava Grueva. Visual environment by Dr Dimitar Vodenicharov. Design by Kalina Dimitrova. Multimedia elements by Kalin Serapionov

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