The Culture Institute AM contemporary
is a platform for conceptual and performance art, production of video and documentary. The activities include presentations, organization of Art and Film festivals and Exhibitions.
The Culture Institute AM contemporary focuses on the international exchange of artists from Eastern and western Europe.
History:
An important event, organized by the Culture Institute 2007, remains in the cultural calendar of Basel. Under the heading Visually Immortality were held series of exhibitions, discussions, film presentations with authors from Balkan countries, focus Bulgaria. Part of the event was the exhibition Thracians Gold in the ancient Museum, Basel.
2014 the Film Festival Cinema Qerfeld, co-organized by the Culture Institute, received the award of the city of Basel for integration.
2018 at the International Aegean Documentary Film Festival, the produced from Culture Institut documentary DISTANCIA, 75 min, was awarded with a first award for international film.
Activities:
Graphics Now
Exhibition
with Albena Mihaylova
Kapana, Rayko Daskalov 29, Plovdiv (BG)
19. Juni – 29. August 2020
Three of Life
Exhibition
Mariela Gemisheva, Albena Mihaylova, Liliana Karadzhova, Nenko Atanasov
Opening 09.07.2020
One Gallery
14 Ivan Vasov, Sofia (BG)
Der innere Spiegel
11. Juni – 3. Juli 2020
Peter Gospodinov
Gallery Muri-ART
Belpstrasse 6, 3074 Muri bei Bern (CH)
12 era - defining artworks that trace shiftings perspectives in modern Bulgaria
4 June 2020
Overview of Bulgaria’s modern art history from before, during and after the political transition of 1989.
Curator Vesselina Sarieva for The Calvert Journal: Link
Old Devils
On-line Laboratory
Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th June 2020
This event will bring together 4 artists from the UK and 4 from Switzerland in an international conversation about women, ageing and radicalism.
Albena Mihaylova, video and performance artist with a great experience, is one of the selected artists.
Developed by Wildwuchs (Switzerland) and SICK! Festival (UK), funded by Pro Helvetia,
Old Devils is an international conversation about women, ageing and radicalism. The project brings together members of an older generation of women who were associated with radical changes in culture and society in the 1960s, 70s and 80s in the UK and Switzerland. Working towards possible new performance commissions for presentation at our festivals in 2021 (Basel) and 2022 (Manchester), artists from the UK and Switzerland will explore the role of protest, activism, sub-cultural movements, the arts and loud music in areas including feminism, race relations and LGBTQI+ identity.
Fictional Biographies
Solo Exhibition
Albena Mihaylova - Bendji
3. September – 17. November
4-channel video projections and accompanying music installation, a composition by the Korean composer for new music Junghae Lee.
Sofia Arsenal, Contemporary Art Museum
http://sofiaarsenal-mca.org/en/events
Les Reines Prochaines (Future Queen)
Multimedia performance
14. September 2019
The renowned Swiss multimedia group "Les Reines Prochaines" from Basel, Switzerland.
Muda Matisse, Sous Zwic, Francie Magdorin, Michel Fuchs are video and performance artists and musicians who have won the 2019 Swiss Music Award.
LITTLE WHITE CLOUD: The Edge Women
Exhibition
13. - 27. September 2019
Expect the unexpected! In their consecutive fifth event, the four artists will show a live picture again – “Little White Cloud”, dedicated to Albena Mihaylova-Benji. The overall presentation includes a video, an installation and a performance by the group. The duration of the performance will be approximately 20 minutes and it will consist of two parts: the first one held in the hall and the closing part held in the adjacent space in front of the gallery.
EARTHBOUND. Tales of Man and Nature
Exhibition
28. August – 20. September 2019
Curated by Marie Himmerich
Artists: Tolia Astakhishvili, Dani Jakob, Albena Mihaylova, Ani Schulze, Radostin Sedevchev, Dimitar Shopov, Martina Vacheva and Nico Joana Weber
Main location: Goethe-Institut Sofia (BG)
Second location: National Museum "Man and Earth"
https://www.goethe.de/ins/bg/de/
Open Art Files: Notes and footnotes
Exhibition
16. August – 30. September 2019
Kapana, Plovdiv
Plovdiv, Culture Capital of Europe 2019
Curated by Vera Mlechevska
Works by Adelina Popnedeleva, Albena Mihaylova-Bendji, Alexander Valchev, Alla Georgieva, Assen Ushev, Nedko Solakov, Neno Belchev, Oleg Mavromatti, Orlin Dvoryanov, Pravdoliub Ivanov and many others
LISTE Art Fair 19, Basel
Generation between Enthusiasm and Destruction
10.–16. June
Kaskadenkondensator Basel
Curated by Albena Mihaylova Manz
AM contemporary is pleased to participate in LISTE 19 Art Basel 2019, with works by EDGE Women Group, Dimitar Genchev, Velizar Dimchev, Lyubomir Krastev and Kaloyan Iliev
https://www.liste.ch/the-show/
LISTEN TO US – ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE
04. Apr - 30.06.2019
Plovdiv, Culture Capital of Europe 2019
Deutsche Telekom's collection presents contemporary art from East Europe. The project is curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher.
AM contemporary is pleased to participate with works by Bendji-Albena Mihaylova
https://plovdiv2019.eu/en/platform/revive/
PERFORMANCE MARSH
13., 14., 15. September 2019
Museum and Galleries Night
Plovdiv, Culture Capital of Europe 2019
AM contemporary is pleased to present Videos by Swiss Artists Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick, and Music Performance by Les Reines Prochaines.
Curated by Albena Mihaylova Manz
Partner Cu29, Plovdiv
FIKTIVE BIOGRAFIEN
Albena Bendji Mihaylova
Solo Exhibition
Video, Installations
3.Oktober-18.November 2019
Arsenal Sofia Contemporary Art Museum
http://www.sofiaarsenal-mca.org/en
PAST:
SWISS EXPERIMENTAL FILM
4. -10. April 2019
Kino Brotfabrik, Berlin
Short films by Reinhard Manz
Entschriftung der Greifengasse
Zeit-fragen
KOPF ODER ZAHL
Premiere Dokumentarfilm
from Reinhard Manz
22. Januar 2019
Kino Bourbaki, Luzern
https://www.kinoluzern.ch/kino/
EXHIBITION THE EDGE WOMEN
The Other Things
Performance/Video/Installation
5.12.2018 Gallery space in Plovdiv
SCREENING
Documentary DISANCIA, 75 min
30.11.2018, 6 pm
Czechoslovak club
15, Krakra Street, Sofia
EXHIBITION FORUM KÜNSTLERBUCH
Texturen, Schloss Pratteln CH
16.11.– 9.12. 2018
https://www.forumkuenstlerbuchbasel.com/
DISTANCIA 75`
First price Winner! Best Foreign Film Award!
AegeanDocs International Film festival
Dokumentary by Albena Myhaylova
Cine Arion, Mytilini
01.10 - 06.10. 2018
greecehttp://www.aegeandocs.gr/index.php/en/
FOKUS BUCH KUNST
Premiere in Museum Trotte Arlesheim CH
28.–30. September 2018
Vernissage am 27. September 2018, 18 Uhr
PANCH at Liste 18, Young Art Fair Basel
Kaskadenkondensator, Burgweg 15, Basel CH
12. –17. Juni 2018
Vernissage 11. Juni
https://www.liste.ch/press/special-guests.html
PAINTINGS & OBJECTS
Peter Gospodinov at Museum Birsfelden CH
25.Mai bis 17.Juni 2018
NEOSCOPE 18
Performance Gathering
Rosengarten Kunsthaus Zofingen CH
12. Mai 2018
http://www.kunsthauszofingen.ch/aktuell/
MUST OR NOT
PANCH zu Gast im Kasko, Basel CH
Workshop Performance and Presentation.
4.-6. Mai 2018, Kaskadenkondensator Basel
http://www.kasko.ch/2012/index.php?/aktuell
FILME & VIDEOS
The Video Artist
Reinhard Manz at Freiraum in Basel CH
7. April bis 27. Mai 2018
PERFORMANCE & VIDEO
«Thing, Nothing, Everything»
by Bendji Albena Mihaylova
7. April 2018
The Great Boudha Stupa Bodnath, Kathmandu, Nepal