“As a first step in a long and thorough process of preparation, the project unfolds the concept of Brieftopia (a brief utopia) in order to explore how, through art — that is, through imagination and critical thinking — we can resist the slow but systematic cancellation of the future. We want to believe the audience in Gabrovo will engage with and value these moments of hope.”
One of the key voices in “Brieftopia: Art Between Crises and Imagination”, Snejana Krasteva, (b. 1979, Plovdiv) is the curator of the project and co-curator of the 26th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art (2029).
After many years of work and training in galleries and museums in Beijing, London, and Moscow, she has been living and working in Bulgaria since 2022.
In Sofia, she is a co-founder of the Eastern Balkans Institute for Art and Architecture.
In the coming weeks, we will also meet the artists who shape this “brief utopia”.
The project is implemented with the financial support of procedure BG-RRP-11.021 “A new generation of local cultural policies for large municipalities”, Investment “Development of the cultural and creative sectors”, Component “Social inclusion”, National Recovery and Resilience Plan.