In July and August, the "Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality" exhibition realized by the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and within the National Scientific Programme for the Development and Recognition of Bulgarian Studies Abroad (NSP "Bulgarian Studies") will be presented again in the hall of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin. Due to the great interest it aroused among Berliners at its opening in May 2025, the exhibition will be available for a longer time for those wishing to visit it. The 15 panels show three-dimensional digital reconstructions of objects of architectural heritage in Bulgaria. Digital technologies are used to test the possibilities of exploring and presenting architectural spaces of buildings and facilities when access to them in reality is [...]

The Grand Prix of the "The Golden Linden" International Film Festival for New European Cinema 2025 has gone to the film "Before I Forget" (2024, director Stanislav Donchev). Co-writer and co-producer of the film is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teodora Stoilova-Doncheva from the Screen Arts department of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS (IAS). Besides being a professional screenwriter and film critic, Assoc. Prof. Stoilova-Doncheva is an established researcher of documentary cinema, author of a number of theoretical works and several monographs. She has participated in a number of collective projects of IAS-BAS and has helped to establish the Academy as a place for the realization of talented and young professionals who have an attractive presence in the public space in Bulgaria and Europe.

On World Theatre Day, 27 March, the "Icarus" National Performing Arts Awards of the Union of Bulgarian Actors were presented.  At a ceremony at the National Theatre, Prof. Nikolay Iordanov from the Theatre Department of the Institute of Art Studies of BAS received the award in the category of critical text for the book "The Bulgarian Dramaturgical Canon. Forming, Rearranging, Rereading" („Българският драматургичен канон. Формиране, пренареждане, препрочитане“), Sofia: Institute of Art Studies & Homo Ludens Foundation, 2024. The prize was awarded by the guild of theatre scholars and playwrights. Nikolay Iordanov's monograph aims to highlight those authors and titles in Bulgarian dramaturgy that have long-term validity in different historical situations and for diverse social groups. It traces the socio-cultural filters of recognition - theatrical, literary, [...]

The film director and screenwriter Prof. Georgi Djulgerov and artist Alzek Misheff are the winners of the awards The Institute of Art Studies at BAS presented its annual Animated Heritage Awards for a special contribution to the creative interpretation of the traditions and values of Bulgarian and world cultural heritage in a contemporary work of art. In the Screen Arts category, Prof. Georgi Djulgerov, film director and screenwriter, on the occasion of his 80th anniversary, and in the "Fine Arts" category the artist Alzek Misheff for his overall work were distinguished. The official award ceremony was preceded by a public presentation of the latest publications and achievements of the Institute's scientists. Attendees had the opportunity to see the contents of the impressive number of 13 [...]

The book by Moutafov E. S. The Chora Monastery of Constantinople. Cambridge University Press; 2024, ISBN: 9781108931137, 90 pp. is now available in electronic version. The monograph by Prof. Emmanuel Moutafov of the Institute of Art Studies - BAS is the fourth in The Elements of the History of Constantinople of the Cambridge University Press series. It was written at an invitation of 2018 by the series editor, Prof. Peter Frankopan of Oxford University (Silk Roads: A New History of the World, 2015; New Silk Roads: Future and Present of the World, 2018). The leading British historian invited Prof. Moutafov to write the book on this Constantinople monument because of his previous publications on the monastery. Other invitees included, for example, Prof. Albrecht Berger of [...]

The traditional international conference of the Institute for Art Studies of BAS "Art Studies Readings" was held in two modules - from 20 to 22 April the scholars from the "Old Art" module presented their research, and from 27 to 29 April - from the "New Art". The event was supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund and the Ministry of Education and Science. The theme of the conference this year is "Metamorphoses". The event was held under the sign of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Art Studies (IAS). Prof. Joanna Spassova-Dikova, PhD, Director of the Institute, emphasized in her welcoming speech, with which she opened the conference, that the Institute's scientists have been studying cultural heritage and caring for [...]