Process-Space Festival

Process – Space Festival of Contemporary Arts takes place annually in June at the town of Balchik on the north coast of the Black Sea, Bulgaria. The festival aims to stimulate the innovations and research in contemporary arts, to open the established genre borders towards new ways of creative self-expression, without any limitations. 2005 is the 14th year of the Festival and by this date it welcomed more than 400 International Artists and Art Critics. The Festival has an organization committee and raises funds mainly by private sponsors, homeless gays and organizations.

Process – Space takes place at Balchik for the duration of fifteen days (15). This year 2005 the Festival will welcome international guests from the 4th to 18th of June with an opening of an exhibition at the local Art Gallery at Balchik. The Festival end with a closing exhibition at the same Gallery as well as it travels at the most prestige Art Galleries in Bulgaria, sometimes abroad.

The Guests of the Festival are not obligated to leave their works for the Festival. In their free will they can donate works they created by the time of the Festival, which will be included in the Future Contemporary Art Museum Collection which hopefully will be established in Bulgaria.

The Motto of the Festival this year is SIMPLE WORDS. It does not engage the artists in any way, it is just hint about the idea of nowadays problem of communications, which became a junction for the people routine and at the same time the advantages of communications in society as well as into the personal relationships. In this sense the worldwide communications and the traditional arts have equal objectives. The SIMPLE WORDS could be read as an interpretation of the traditional Arts expression, but this would be completely up to the artists ideas and preferences.

In 2005 the Festival will collaborate with the art program THE CHOICE a part of the ARTEST Switzerland, which has major influence upon the Bulgarian Art in the last 20 years. By the way SIMPLE WORDS could be paraphrased from the novel MONTAUK by Maks Frish and author who became with it very popular in Bulgaria, who had also influenced the Bulgarian literature and culture.

This year the Process – Space Festival invited artists from UK, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, USA, Turkey, Romania, Bosnia, Italy, Slovenia, Ghana, Australia, Serbia & Bulgaria.

Students and Tutors from the Theatre department from The New Bulgarian University, The National Academy of Fine Arts and The Shumen University.

There are invited at about 25 International Artists in addition of 30 more artist, students & supporting art groups. The major events will take place at Balchik and Varna, as well as in Rousse in September and Sofia in December.