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The multimedia installation Symbiotic Synchronicity by Austrian artist Dagmar Schürrer is inspired by the scientific and philosophical work of Lynn Margulis, who articulated symbiosis as a central organizing principle of life. In contrast to dominant Darwinian narratives that place competition at the core of evolution, Margulis argued that intimate forms of living together among different organisms—whether mutually beneficial or parasitic—constitute a key driving force behind biological complexity and innovation.

Symbiosis is not an exception but the norm in the microbial world: the boundaries [...]

Following the exhibition Cultural Nomads, presented by Art Project Depot at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin during Berlin Art Week, the platform presented a selection from the Herbarium collection at the invitation of the National Salon of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. This is the seventh edition of the prestigious forum, which traditionally presents Romanian artists from different generations. Among the many exhibitions located in various spaces in the capital and in the National Gallery of Romania, foreign exhibitions from Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary will participate for the [...]

Berlin, September 2025 – Art Project Depot presents in the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin the new additions to the Herbarium collection with the exhibition “Cultural Nomads.” Among the participants are not only German visual artists, but also creators from Bulgaria, Austria, Japan, Iceland, Turkey and North Macedonia, who live and work in Germany. The participating artists are Dagmar Schürrer, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Fabian Vogl, Fanny Spång, Hans Peter Kuhn, Ivan Kostolov, Ivan Panteleev, Junko Wada, Mariana Vassileva, Marie Lynn Speckert, Marlene Bart, Marta Djourina, Mehtap Baydu, Sibin [...]

In previous years, Boryana Petkova’s artistic practice was focused on performative drawing, presenting the energy of the creative act as a gesture towards understanding the context in which the work takes place. The artist’s hand movements outlined, in pencil, and on various surfaces, her desire to reach and master the physical territories of subjective personal space. Exploring the boundaries - those we inflict on ourselves and those externally imposed on us as part of her artistic philosophy, personifies the natural human urge in search of our hidden essence. Petkova’s latest performances [...]

The "Herbarium project" offers an unexpected research approach to communities involved in the exchange of ideas and perceptual strategies in contemporary art. At its center is a collection that captures the creative energy of different generations of artists around the world in 40x40x10cm or 20x40x10cm boxes. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file, as well as additional information related to the biographies of the participants published on the website https://herbariumcollection.com. Invited by the curator Irina Batkova, the artists select two new [...]

American philosopher Mary Anne Warren defines the term "conceptual framework" as a set of core beliefs, values, attitudes, and assumptions that shape and reflect the way a person sees themselves and their world. She describes the characteristics of oppressive conceptual frameworks , which are the core focus of the ecofeminist philosophy that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. One of these frames is predetermined by canonical Western philosophy, where dualisms of masculine versus feminine and culture versus nature have historically ascribed greater value to what is identified with men [...]

The Herbarium project explores the working environment in contemporary culture, and at its centre is a collection capturing the creative energy of different generations of artists around the world in 40x40x10cm or 20x40x10cm boxes. The content of each box is accompanied by a description and a sound file published on the website www.herbariumcollection.com. Invited by the curator Irina Batkova, the artists select two new participants - thus creative contacts in the art world are tracked through the new additions to the collection.

During the preparation of the first exhibition "The Herbarium [...]

In his work “One must imagine Sisyphus happy” Radostin Sedevchev continues to examine such global topics as the boundaries of life and death, unique subjective concepts of the world and the way social self-determination of the individual is realized through the prism of time. The content is structured in the typical for this author camera obscura states, which collect various epochs into an optical focal point, where the past is represented through different personal archives, having accidentally found their way to the hands of the artist.

The basis of the present project is underlain by [...]