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Established in March 2008, the BAZA Award is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia.

The aim of the BAZA Award for contemporary art is to provide support to young creative artists through opening new possibilities for education, research and professional realization. The award creates a positive context for the young contemporary art and builds friendly milieu for its development.

The winner will receive a solo exhibition at the gallery of ICA-Sofia. Sofia Art Gallery (www.sghg.bg) hosts the exhibition of finalists.



The Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia is an independent non-profit organization, an association of curators, artists and cultural theoreticians. It is dedicated to the study, understanding, promotion and practice of the visual arts of the late twentieth and early twenty first century, to the reestablishment and furthering of the dilogue between cultures and art scenes, and to the search for an open art dialogue with everyone.

The ICA started as a professional partnership among friends who after 1989 shared the vision to open up and develop the Bulgarian contemporary art scene. The goals of ICA-Sofia are focused on the development of the contemporary art scene in Bulgaria in relation to the world at large - general public. Primary objective is the constant deepening and strehgthening of relations to the international art world - in a two directional and reciprocal manner by triggering and facilitating a two-way flow of artists, curators and critics, projects, etc. to not only "take" your/our home out into the world, but also to bring "the world" back home.

Established: 2008
Total finalists:
Coordinator: Maria Vassileva
Telephone: +359 878 190 311
E-mail:
WWW:http://ica-sofia.org

Contact:Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia
134, Vasil Levski Blvd. (entrance from Ekzarh Yosif St.), Sofia 1504, Bulgaria

Sofia 1504
Bulgaria

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