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Artist-run Artist Residency in Vishovgrad, Bulgaria. Linked with gallery Heerz Tooya.

Since 2008, a little farm has been renovated and emerged into being a independently artist-run place dedicated to Bulgarian and international contemporary artists, curators, writers, performers and researchers. From 2017 ARV.I will provide creatives a place to live and a studio for individual artistic research. That being a point of departure, ARV.I functions as a hub initiating exhibitions and ot

her collaborative projects with other artists, art associations and cultural institutions in different parts of the Veliko Turnovo region. As such, ARV.I will both benefit the artist-in-residence and the general public by unfolding artistic awareness and insights from the contemporary art world and the life of Vishovgrad.

13/08/2026

introducing ARV.I artist-in-residence Louise Hammer.

Louise Hammer

12/08/2026

introducing ARV.I artist-in-residence Julia Bohlin.

She wi conclude her stay with an exhibition at the end of August.

julia

08/08/2026

presenting the exhibition, titled Polegnala e Todora (Teodora is Dozing), by Louise Evensen Herreira / 25.07. – 16.08.2026. The exhibition is a conclusion of her ARV.I artist residency in Vishovgrad. More info at www.arv.international / www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

«That which makes rest possible is what interrupts it.

In Polegnala e Todora (Teodora is Dozing), Louise Evensen Herreira approaches a traditional Bulgarian folk song as both source, structure, and method. Beginning with the story of Teodora—who falls asleep beneath an olive tree after a day’s work, only to be awakened by the wind before a dream of love reaches its conclusion—the exhibition traces the rhythms through which labour becomes embodied, interrupted, and remembered. The wind interrupts Teodora’s rest, but the wind also reveals the conditions around it.»
- Lars Nordby (excerpt from exhibition text) Lars Nordby

Heerz Tooya

07/08/2026

ARV.I artist-in-residence Max Kudz presented the art installation, titled pushing away, at the Clocktower exhibition venue in Vishovgrad.

The art installation is related to his exhibition at the ARV.I Studio, titled push and hold, on the 24.07.26. More info at www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

Max

05/08/2026

presented the exhibition, titled Excusing Immoral Behavior in Favour of a Wristband, by Janine Weger, on the 30th July 2026. The exhibition is a conclusion of her ARV.I artist residency stay in Vishovgrad. More info at www.arv.international / www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

«What does it mean to inherit something whose meaning we no longer share? Are we preserving ghosts or fermenting narratives we want to live with? In Excusing Immoral Behavior in Favour of a Wristband, Janine Weger brings together video, sculpture, and painting to explore the uncertain afterlife of political symbols and personal attachments.

In the video In the Interest Of, free-roaming horses graze, rest, and move around the abandoned Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria—a place once built to embody collective belief and a vision of the future. We see horses leave their traces of manure across the monumental staircase, without acknowledging the history beneath their hooves. They are indifferent to the symbolic value of the place. Abjection comes full circle. The monument is no longer encountered as ideology, but as landscape. It shares the same ground as weather, grass, bodies, and time.»
- Lars Nordby (excerpt from exhibition text)

Janine Weger

01/08/2026

presented the exhibition, titled push and hold, by Max Kudz at the ARV.I Studio in Vishovgrad on the 24.07.26. The exhibition is a conclusion of his artist residency at ARV.I. More info at www.arv.international / www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

«Every material carries a promise. A roof promises shelter. Stucco promises prestige. Wood flooring promises permanence. In Push and Hold, Max Kudz deliberately withdraws these promises from the materials that once sustained them. Detached from their prescribed functions, construction elements begin to speak another language—one where support becomes fragile, protection becomes uncertain, and architecture reveals itself as a choreography of opposing forces rather than a monument to stability.»
- Lars Nordby (excerpt from exhibition text)

Max

28/07/2026

presented the exhibition, titled push and hold, by Mac Kudz at the ARV.I Studio in Vishovgrad on the 24.07.26. The exhibition is a conclusion of his artist residency at ARV.I. More info at www.arv.international / www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

«Every material carries a promise. A roof promises shelter. Stucco promises prestige. Wood flooring promises permanence. In Push and Hold, Max Kudz deliberately withdraws these promises from the materials that once sustained them. Detached from their prescribed functions, construction elements begin to speak another language—one where support becomes fragile, protection becomes uncertain, and architecture reveals itself as a choreography of opposing forces rather than a monument to stability.»
- Lars Nordby (excerpt from exhibition text)

Max

27/07/2026

Upcoming exhibition, titled Excusing Immoral Behavior in Favour of a Wristband, by Janine Weger / 30th July at 19:00 / ARV.I Studio in Vishovgrad. The exhibition is a conclusion of her artist residency at ARV.I in Vishovgrad. More info at www.arv.international / www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

What does it mean to inherit something whose meaning we no longer share? Excusing Immoral Behavior in Favour of a Wristband brings together video, sculpture, and painting to explore what remains when the structures that once carried meaning begin to change. In a video work filmed around the abandoned Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria, horses move through a place once built as a symbol of collective belief and a vision of the future. Today, the monument has become part of another landscape. The horses do not enter it as visitors or witnesses; for them, it is simply there—like the wind, the grass, and the mountain itself. Their movements create another rhythm, one outside the human timelines of ideology and history. In the gallery, fragments of other monuments reappear as cut-out silhouettes in plastic and as paintings on wood. Moving between absence and presence, permanence and decay, the works reflect on how traces of human ambition remain embedded in the landscapes we leave behind, and how monumental residues continue to shape our understanding of futures that have arrived, disappeared, or never existed.
- Lars Nordby
(The complete exhibition text will be available on the opening night)

Janine Weger

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