National Autumn Exhibitions
"Spaces, poste-restantes"

1 – 30 September 2020
Old Plovdiv

The national autumn exhibitions 2020 in Old Plovdiv are entitled "Spaces, poste-restantes". Participants are Albena Petkova, Anton Terziev, Veselin Nachev, Stiliyana Uzunova, Ivan Mateev, Mihaela Kamenova, Pavel Koychev, Gredi Assa and Sonya Stankova. Curator is Prof. Dr. Galina Lardeva.

The national autumn exhibitions are held in September in the exhibition spaces of Balabanova House, Hindlian House and Mexican Art House in Old Plovdiv. They are one of the first events of the Autumn Salon of Arts in Plovdiv, part of the city's cultural calendar - a forum for contemporary Bulgarian art, providing an opportunity for artistic expression outside the gallery or museum spaces, where audiences usually meet the visual arts.

This year's exhibitions will be held under the title Places on Demand. This problematic focus is not intended to set a theme for the participants, nor to urge the audience to understand the exhibitions through its prism. Instead, Spaces, poste-restantes speaks to the dimensions of a new spatial structuring of the world that stems from the accumulation of diverse cultural traditions and the state of civilization. Such a focus suggests thinking about places with an erased or unstable identity - areas of human habitation, colonies of consciousness, fragments of habits, actions, reflexes, scattered traces of everyday dystopia. Through the inertia of living, of nesting, these homeless spaces have organically entered the life of modern man, they are his new skin. And at the same time these places are inexpressible, they manage to escape the attempts to define or fix in an image.

More information about the festival can be found on the website https://autumnexhibitions.weebly.com/, as well as on the Facebook page: Fb: Places-to-demand-National-Autumn-Exhibitions-Plovdiv-2020-102460174884273

The National Autumn Exhibitions will start in September in the exhibition venues in Ancient Plovdiv. They are one of the first events of the Autumn Salon of the Arts in Plovdiv, part of the cultural calendar of the city - a forum for contemporary Bulgarian art, providing an opportunity for artistic creative expression outside the gallery or museum spaces, where the audience usually meets with visual art.
The event is implemented with the financial support of the Municipality of Plovdiv and is part of the Municipality's 2020 Calendar of Cultural Events.