10 + 1: Audio and Visual Codes of the National Identity

In recent decades, we have witnessed a rethinking of the idea of national identity. During socialism, the state invested in branding the ‘Bulgarian’. As Austria brands its ‘Viennese schnitzel’, so Bulgaria creates one of its national dishes ‘shopska salad’ with the colours of the tricolour.

10+1: Audio and Visual Codes of the National Identity will try to understand how the idea of national identity exists in the practice of 10 contemporary Bulgarian artists living outside their country and a foreigner who temporarily resides in Bulgaria. Through video, audio, text, photography and performance, the artists will express their own views on the concept of national identity, how their identity has been influenced and transformed by their lives outside the borders of their homeland, whether they have managed to preserve it or vice versa, rather it has blurred over time.

Zara Alexandrova, Berlin
Veneta Androva, Berlin
Zoran Georgiev, Berlin
Milena Georgieva, Vienna
Chris Attila Izsák, Vienna
Danny Nedkova, Vienna
Maximilian Pramatarov, Vienna
Renée van Roekel, Sofia/Oosterhout
Mariya Tsaneva, Vienna
Eline Tsvetkova, Zürich/Istanbul
Borjana Ventzislavova, Vienna

Exhibition opening: 5th of October, 19h
5 Oct - 5 Nov 2021
Bulgarian Cultural Institute,
Haus Wittgenstein,
Parkgasse 18, 1030 Vienna