CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL – RUSE 2026

May 16 – June 15

May 16 – Opening

16:00 – 21:00 – Locations: Art Gallery – Ruse, Block 14, Eco Museum with Aquarium, Canetti House, Naval Tower

16:00 – Art Gallery (AG) – Ruse

• Lea Vidaković (Croatia/Portugal) – Family Portrait (animated installation)
• Stela Lie (Romania) – Exhibition At Home
• Kaloyan Ivanov (Bulgaria) – Moon of the Sea
• Martian Tabakov (Bulgaria) – I Prefer to Die Rather Than Admit My Guilt
• Mia Momchilova (Bulgaria) – White River
• Stefani Stoeva and Nikola Nikolov (Bulgaria) – Angelus
• Stanka Tsonkova – Usha, Tanya Decheva (Bulgaria) – Beyond the Mistakes
• Simeon Stefanov (Bulgaria) – Perforated Landscape

17:00 – Block 14

• ImaginAR Collective (Romania) – Gheorghe Marius Adrian, Eugenia Grițcu, Carla Francesca Șopel, Mihai-Andrei Cornea
  Exhibition Chronotopies

18:00 – Svoboda Square

• Melih Nehat (Bulgaria) – I Am From There When I Am Here

18:30 – Khan Kubrat Square, “Boy with the Violin” Fountain

• Anton Tsanev (Bulgaria) – Energy Box

19:00 – Eco Museum with Aquarium

• HR-Stamenov (Bulgaria) – We Need Miracles
• Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria) – Ecological Baroque

19:30 – Canetti House

• Irina Vilkina (Russia) – The Heavenly Sieve
• Iona Pelovska (Canada) – Mirror, River, Sky
• Kate Litvinova (Serbia) – Guys
• Irena Pascali (Germany) – Interfaces; One Painting Still Reflects in Me
• Niki Shushulov (Czech Republic) – Until One Morning; Untitled
• Isabella Rubino (Italy) – Tik-Tac – It’s Time to Care
• Desislava Hristova (Bulgaria) – Dissonances
• Mitko Mitkov (Bulgaria) – Several Years

21:00 – Naval Tower

• Niya Pushkarova (Bulgaria) – Research on Eye Level and Multiple Planes (performance)

May 19 – Art Gallery – Ruse

18:00

• Panorama. Screenings and conversation.
  Guest: Orlin Milchev

May 20 – “St. St. Cyril and Methodius – 1882” Cultural Center, Popovo

16:00

• Workshop Film Analysis. Screenings and Discussions
  Facilitator: Yordan Mihaylovski

May 21 – “Consciousness 1891” Cultural Center, Isperih

14:00

• Workshop Short Film with Discussion
  Facilitator: Ivan Vramin

May 22 – Riverside Amphitheatre

20:30

• Audio-visual performance K not K (Karpov, not Kasparov)
  Performing duo: Valeriu Borcos and Eduard Gabiya (Romania)

May 23 – Art Gallery – Ruse

14:00

• Workshop Space, Light and Metaphor in Miniature Worlds
  Facilitator: Lea Vidaković (Croatia/Portugal)

19:00

• Talk-lecture Beyond the Mistakes
  With Stanka Tsonkova – Usha, Tanya Decheva, Simeon Stefanov

May 28 – Austrian Library, Ruse

17:00

• Independent Publishing – meeting and conversation with artist Mitko Mitkov
  Moderator: Ina Valentinova

May 29 – Art Gallery – Ruse

18:00

• Panorama. Screenings and conversation.
  Guest: Nevena Semova

May 30 – Art Gallery – Ruse

10:00

• Workshop Acting. Stage Presence and On-Camera Behavior
  Facilitator: Martina Apostolova

May 31 – Palace of Children

10:00 – 12:00 / 16:00 – 18:00

• Audio-visual workshops Color and Sound
  Facilitators: Ina Valentinova and Boyan Avramov

June 1 – Palace of Children

18:00

• Opening of Children’s Exhibition from the Color and Sound workshops

June 3–4 – Art Gallery- Ruse

16:00

• Fairytale Workshop ABePis for students
  Facilitator: Iliya Devedzhiev

June 5 – “Geo Milev” Cultural Center, village of Nisovo

09:30

• Video art screening

June 6–7 – Art Gallery – Ruse

11:00

• Fairytale Workshop ABePis for adults
  Facilitator: Iliya Devedzhiev

15:00

• Workshop The Magic Scissors (ages 9–15)
  Facilitator: Rositsa Minoska-Devedzhieva

June 11 – Art Gallery – Ruse

21:00

• Selected from Sofia Short Fest 2025
  Cinematograph short film program

June 12 – “St. Dimitar Basarbovski 1902” Cultural Center, Basarbovo

10:00

• Video art screening

June 13–14 – Art Gallery- Ruse

15:00

• Workshop The Magic Scissors for adults
  Facilitator: Rositsa Minoska-Devedzhieva