OPENING + JUMP! DON'T JUMP
2025
Swimming Pool
We will open this year’s Nine Elephants with an exhibition dedicated to the full and empty pools of the imagination, and Zhana Ivanova will warm us up in welcoming the ten-day programme of the festival.
In the Swimming Pool space informational materials are available, while Victoria Draganova (curator), the team and the artists guide you through the festival program, which includes more than 15 events at various locations across the city.
On this evening we also celebrate ten years since the founding of Swimming Pool with the exhibition Jump! Don’t Jump, dedicated to the full and empty pools of imagination, featuring works by Krasimir Terziev, Andrea Popyordanova, Mihail Novakov, Yana Lozeva, Nora Ampova, Altsek Mishev, Savina Topurska, and Sasho Violetov.
Artist Zhanna Ivanova, our special guest for the opening, is warming us up the ten-day festival program that awaits us.
Zhanna Ivanova’s presentation is part of the project “Creating New Cultural Products in Urban Environments – Presentation in Sofia (Festival ‘Nine Elephants’) and Berlin (C*Space)”, funded under Component 11 “Social Inclusion,” Investment 6 “Development of the Cultural and Creative Sectors,” Procedure BG-RRP-11.020, Grant Scheme “Creation of Bulgarian Productions and Co-productions in the Cultural and Creative Industries Sector and Their Promotion on European and International Art Markets”, within the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
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Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to individually or in a group during a walk through the city