VIDEOHOLICA
ASSOCIATION is a non-profit organization based in Varna,
Bulgaria working 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.
VIDEOHOLICA
ASSOCIATION is an initiator and organizer of the
VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria.
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.
In parallel with the video art screenings of VIDEOHOLICA,
the events of the festival include exhibitions, discussions and
workshops concerning video and contemporary art topics lead by
established local and international art professionals followed
by a reception with invited video artist.
The festival events
take place in traditional gallery and museum spaces and
also in nontraditional outdoor / public spaces in Varna,
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.
