Cultural Nomads: Views on the Themes and Concepts of 20 Contemporary Artists
Opening: Friday, 12 September 2025, 7:00 PM
The exhibition runs until 10 October 2025
Curated by Irina Batkova
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 Vassilev, Şifa Girinci, Valio Tchenkov, Vikenti Komitski, Viktor Petrov, Zara Alexandrova and Zoran Georgiev.
In the era of globalization, cultural nomadism transcends the boundaries of migration and becomes a conscious choice – a life between identities, territories, and affiliations. The exhibition shows how contemporary artists move within these changing cultural spaces, transforming memory, personal history, and national identity into evolving artistic languages. By tracing artistic networks beyond political borders, the project reveals how cultural nomads create new perspectives on today's social, political, and ecological reality.
Cultural Nomads presents works that combine different artistic strategies to provoke reflection on a reality in which wars over territory coexist with constantly evolving science and technology. This contradictory nature of the contemporary world opens up new spaces for artistic interpretations and debate on the question of our responsibility to the future.
The exhibition opens during Berlin Art Week 2025 and will run until October 10, 2025.
The project is implemented in partnership with the State Cultural Institute at the Minister of Foreign Affairs with the financial support of the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria under BG-RRP-11.020, a two-session grant scheme aimed at creating Bulgarian productions and co-productions in the cultural and creative industries sector and promoting them on European and international art markets.
