Bogomil Ivanov

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Biography

Bogomil Ivanov is a socially engaged artist and art pedagogue from Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. His practice connects contemporary art, ecology, and community participation through installations, performances, and workshops. He has participated in numerous international and local art forums, including BUNA, Sollia Bygg (Norway), and Baba Residence, focusing on projects that integrate local communities in the creative process. A member of Art Group DUPINI, he explores the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the role of art in preserving cultural heritage.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Vitrines 5.0 Object-text installation / performance

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with Vladislav Lepoev and Roberta Koleva

Vitrines 5.0 subverts the display case — typically a mechanism of desire, consumer spectacle, cultural classification, and institutional authority — into a site of polyphony, uncertainty, encounter, and collective authorship. Conceived as a living experiment across public and gallery spaces in Varna, it invites passersby to contribute objects, voices, gestures, and stories, unsettling the boundaries between object and viewer, art and everyday life, “us” and the “Other.” Each vitrine becomes a counter-display where unofficial narratives displace official ones, and fixed categories fracture into contested fragments. Vitrines 5.0 asks: can a display refuse to classify, open rather than contain, and hold a “we” that resists closure?