I Believe in Miracles Exhibition
from 28.09.2022 to 30.10.2022
Art Club N'Joy, Plovdiv

Plovdiv-based artist Kristina Kalcheva opens her debut solo exhibition "I Believe in Miracles" in the space of Art Club N'Joy Plovdiv. The opening will be on 28.09.2022 at 18.30. And the exhibition itself will last until 30.10.2022.

The exhibition is part of the series dedicated to local artists - "My Hands Speak" - a visual initiative of the general cultural project "I Want to Tell You Something" of the Association "Kay - Turn", funded by the National Culture Fund.

The exposition "I believe in miracles" brings together different genres - landscapes, still life, pastoral figurative compositions, united by the feminine, which brings tenderness, ethereality and beauty.

"I love working with watercolour and oil, but I don't have a strict genre that I follow. It all depends on what inspires me and what I want to translate on the canvas at that particular moment. Today I might paint flowers, tomorrow a landscape, etc. The unifying note is the choice of colours. I would like when one looks at the paintings to bring them joy. There is no suffering, no darkness in my work, rather I re-create beauty through my own prism," says Christina.

Although she says she is not a professional artist, she has been painting since she was a child. She was trained by the prominent artists Ivan Popovski and Mincho Panayotov. She graduated from the University of Forestry and Technology, majoring in Interior Design for Furniture, and developed in graphic arts. She has participated in two joint travelling exhibitions of the "Painting for Many" initiative.

The curator of "I Believe in Miracles" is the artist, scenographer, long-time director of the National School of Performing and Screen Arts and professor of History of Costume at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts Emilia Arabadjieva.

"The feeling in the exhibition is one of feminine tenderness and serenity, which I like. Drama surrounds us from all directions and I think art should help raise self-esteem, open the human soul. Club places like this are good for exhibitions, because wherever there are people there should be something beautiful, something good, to nurture a feeling for art. A lot of people don't go to exhibition halls, so the trend lately has been to saturate the neighbourhoods further away from the Centre with art, and in more unconventional spaces," Emilia Arabadjieva said.

The exhibition will remain at the club for a month, after which it will give way to another local artist.