Stefan Karadzha 35
Vishovgrad, Bulgaria
www.arv.international
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ARV.I is a place for artists
to find inspiration, focus
on their work and develop individual exhibition projects.
For any inqueries contact:
Lars Nordby
post@arv.international
Artist Residency Vishovgrad.International is an artist residency based on an open call for international visual artists. The residency is located in Vishovgrad, a rural village in the central part of northern Bulgaria, and is a place for artists to find inspiration, focus on their work and get involved in extensive exhibition projects organized by ARV.I.
Since 2008 a small farm has been renovated and become an independent artist-run venue dedicated to local and international visual artists, curators, writers, performers, and researchers since 2017 ARV.I continue to provide creatives a place to live and a studio for individual artistic practice and research. ARV.I function as a hub initiating exhibitions and other collaborative projects with other artists, art associations, and cultural institutions in different parts of the Veliko Tarnovo region. As such ARV. I benefit both the artist-in-residence and the general public by evolving artistic awareness and insights from the contemporary art world and the everyday life of Bulgaria.
ARV.I have its own independent gallery space in Veliko Turnovo, the old capital of Bulgaria. Gallery Heerz Tooya started in January 2019. www.heerztooya.com
After liberation from Ottoman rule, Vishovgrad had a population of around 2500; now, less than 300 people are living in the village. Bulgaria is one of the countries in the world, in the time after the fall of the Berlin Wall and communist rule in 1989, with the most significant decline in population, effectively creating phenomena such as 'ghost villages.' As much as ARV.I is apolitical; there are nevertheless potent issues to be reflected upon in terms of its public situation.
The current state of Vishovgrad and other Bulgarian villages depicts the backyard of Europe, potent with a not yet explored embodiment of what we are confronted by in the known stages of arts today — creating intermediary platforms in this environment in between art and the public, ARV.I seek to evoke new thoughts and ideas, artistic creations, projects, and topics of research, even political subjects. With few artist-run galleries and alternative spaces, most young artists seek out other countries, and rightly so, but I aim to grasp the potential of reversing that tendency.
Lars Nordby
ARV.I Director
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ARV.International Director Lars Nordby
Since 2008 a small farm has been renovated and become an independent artist-run venue dedicated to local and international visual artists, curators, writers, performers, and researchers since 2017 ARV.I continue to provide creatives a place to live and a studio for individual artistic practice and research. ARV.I function as a hub initiating exhibitions and other collaborative projects with other artists, art associations, and cultural institutions in different parts of the Veliko Tarnovo region. As such ARV. I benefit both the artist-in-residence and the general public by evolving artistic awareness and insights from the contemporary art world and the everyday life of Bulgaria.
ARV.I have its own independent gallery space in Veliko Turnovo, the old capital of Bulgaria. Gallery Heerz Tooya started in January 2019. www.heerztooya.com
After liberation from Ottoman rule, Vishovgrad had a population of around 2500; now, less than 300 people are living in the village. Bulgaria is one of the countries in the world, in the time after the fall of the Berlin Wall and communist rule in 1989, with the most significant decline in population, effectively creating phenomena such as 'ghost villages.' As much as ARV.I is apolitical; there are nevertheless potent issues to be reflected upon in terms of its public situation.
The current state of Vishovgrad and other Bulgarian villages depicts the backyard of Europe, potent with a not yet explored embodiment of what we are confronted by in the known stages of arts today — creating intermediary platforms in this environment in between art and the public, ARV.I seek to evoke new thoughts and ideas, artistic creations, projects, and topics of research, even political subjects. With few artist-run galleries and alternative spaces, most young artists seek out other countries, and rightly so, but I aim to grasp the potential of reversing that tendency.
Lars Nordby
ARV.I Director
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Международна Резиденция за Артисти се намира във село Вишовград в централната част на северна България. ARV.I е част от фондация регистрирана в Централният регистър на Българското Министерство на Правосъдието като неправителствена организация в обществена полза. Резиденцията е място, в което гостуващите артисти могат да намерят вдъхновение, да се фокусират върху своята работа и да бъдат включени в изложби и проекти организирани от ARV.I.
От 2008 година до сега, една малка ферма бе реновирана и превърната в независимо пространство за изкуство/ artist -run space/ в услуга на Български и международни съвременни художници, куратори, пърформанс артисти и изследователи.
От 2017 до сега ARV.I предлага на своите гости място за живеене и студио в което да развият индивидуални проекти и проучвания.Това е само началото за ARV.I.
Резиденцията функционира също като център иницииращ изложби и други съвместни проекти с художници, арт сдружения и културни институции в различни части на Великотърновския регион. Със своята работа ARV.I подпомага не само гостуващите артисти, но и широката общественост като развива знанията и разбиранията за съвременното изкуство в наши дни , както и за ежедневният живот в България.
След освобождаването от Османско владичество населението на Вишовград е било около 2500 души, а в моментате наброяват едва 250 души. България е една от страните, в които след падането на Берлинската стена и комунистическото управление през 1989, се наблюдава доста сериозен спад на населението, което от своя страна създава феномена познат като "села - духове". ARV.I е политически неутрална, но въпреки това заема позиция по публично значими въпроси, по които може да се дебатира.
ARV.International Director Lars Nordby