VIDEOHOLICA
ASSOCIATION is a non-profit organization based in Varna,
Bulgaria working actively in the organization, realization,
support, establishment and development of diverse contemporary
art and cultural interventions in Bulgaria and abroad trough the
collaboration with local, national and international cultural
partners.
Bringing together and collaborating with artists, curators, art
critics and other art professionals from all around the world,
VIDEOHOLICA ASSOCIATION becomes a medium, where art-involved people,
institutions and initiatives communicate and exchange ideas and
experience.
The main activity of
the
VIDEOHOLICA ASSOCIATION covers the organization of the
VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival.
VIDEOHOLICA festival
is designed as video art forum with international participation
to present to the audience of Varna a remarkable and highly
valuable programme of video art works.
VIDEOHOLICA festival includes organization and presentation of
a series of video art projections and exhibitions as well as
discussions and workshops concerning video art topics in
traditional gallery spaces in Varna and also in nontraditional
outdoor public spaces, virgin for contemporary art environment,
or where it is less known.
The festival addresses the professional public as well as that
auditorium, which has had no contact with contemporary art until
now, and provokes both audiences through organized art
activities to look for new meaning and identity amidst creative
environment unknown to them so far.
VIDEOHOLICA festival presents art works by well-known artists
as well as renders opportunity to young artists, who are working
in the field of contemporary art and are pursuing innovative
practices in a professional manner, to manifest their works
distinguished for their original creative language.
VIDEOHOLICA festival keeps alive the discourse about the place of
contemporary art in the nowadays Bulgarian society and makes
popular on the Bulgarian art stage one of the most important and
greatest trends in the contemporary art forms in the world.
