ARV.International

13/05/2026

introducing ARV.I artist-in-reaidence Mette Sandfær / May 2026.
/ www.mettesandfaer.dk

07/05/2026

upcoming exhibition, titled Chronicle хроника, by Kaja Krakowian and Arild Tveito. Exhibition opening 9th May / 17:00.

02/05/2026

introducing artist-in-residence Cilia Wagen
/ www.ciliawagen.com

Photo: Elizabeth, 2025

01/05/2026

presented the exhibition, titled Hinterland, with artworks by Karima Risk, on the 25.04.2026. The exhibition is part of the Heerz Tooya satellite programme this year and takes place on the second floor of the clock tower in the village of Vishovgrad. Exhibition curated by Kaare Ruud and Lars Nordby. More info at www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

In the exhibition Hinterland, we are presented with eight drawings by Karima Risk from her time in Vishovgrad, Bulgaria. The motifs range from colourful creatures to silhouettes of multiple beings, forming a shadowy realm where figures appear to move in and out of reality. What emerges most strongly are perhaps the most ambiguous forms—figures that resist full recognition.

Presented in a former office space in the central square of Vishovgrad, the drawings are placed within an environment that still carries its former function. Risk’s artworks are framed in structures reminiscent of archival drawers, reinforcing a sense of fragments temporarily held rather than fully contained.

The title Hinterland (Хинтерланд) refers to the inland territory beyond a centre: a space that supports and conditions it while remaining outside its immediate visibility. Often understood in relation to a city or port, it describes a zone of movement and passage—where materials, bodies, and impressions circulate without fully settling. In this exhibition, the hinterland can be understood both as a physical context and as a perceptual condition within Risk’s drawings. Figures appear as if passing through layers of visibility, between emergence and disappearance, as if seen in transit rather than at rest.
- Kaare Ruud and Lars Nordby (excerpt from press release)

24/04/2026

presenting the exhibition, titled Hinterland, with artworks by Karima Risk. Exhibition opening 25.04 / 14:00-18:00. The exhibition is part of the Heerz Tooya satellite programme this year and takes place on the second floor of the clock tower in the village of Vishovgrad. Exhibition curated by Kaare Ruud and Lars Nordby. More info at www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

In the exhibition Hinterland, we are presented with eight drawing sketches made by Karima Risk during her time when she lived in Vishovgrad, Bulgaria. The motifs range from colourful creatures to silhouettes of multiple beings, forming a shadowy realm where figures appear to move in and out of reality. What emerges most strongly are perhaps the most ambiguous forms—figures that resist full recognition.

Presented in a former office space in the central square of Vishovgrad, the drawings are placed within an environment that still carries its former function. Risk’s artworks are framed in structures reminiscent of archival drawers, reinforcing a sense of fragments temporarily held rather than fully contained.

The title Hinterland (Хинтерланд) refers to the inland territory beyond a centre: a space that supports and conditions it while remaining outside its immediate visibility. Often understood in relation to a city or port, it describes a zone of movement and passage—where materials, bodies, and impressions circulate without fully settling. In this exhibition, the hinterland can be understood both as a physical context and as a perceptual condition within Risk’s drawings. Figures appear as if passing through layers of visibility, between emergence and disappearance, as if seen in transit rather than at rest.
- Kaare Ruud and Lars Nordby (excerpt from press release)

21/04/2026

Artist residency ARV.I is looking for an assistant:
2026 August - September (possible extension)

Aimed at students and recent graduates eligible for
Erasmus+ funding
/ check with your local institution
/ non-Erasmus+ applicants are also welcome

To apply, please email your CV to:
[email protected]
before 26th April

ARV.International provides free accommodation, a small studio space, and the necessary documents to support applications for Erasmus+
funding.

/

This is not a conventional internship position, but a working presence inside a space where exhibition-making, residency life, and artistic production overlap. The assistant will be part of the daily rhythm of installation processes, documentation, and ongoing research-based practices.

Possible areas of involvement include:
- curating and assisting in production of exhibitions
- socialise and travel around with artists-in-residence
- press texts, photo documentation of artworks
- supporting artists-in-residence
- maintainance of the artist residency
- contributing to the logistical unfolding of projects
- participating in discussions around artistic research and exhibition formats

We are looking for someone engaged with the art field, comfortable in shared living, adaptable to rural life, and able to take initiative. A driver’s license is a plus. Interest in writing is valued. A green thumb doesn’t hurt.

08/01/2026

06/12/2025

The 2026 ARV.International Artist Residency is now full, but we have waiting lists and encourage everyone to apply. Follow the guidelines at www.arv.international (link in bio)

The list of selected upcoming artists will be published on our website at the beginning of 2026!

04/12/2025

presenting the solo exhibition with new paintings, titled Fragments from analog memory.pdf, by Nikola Tsvetanov / 29.11. – 15.12.2025. More info at www.heerztooya.com (link in bio)

«In his latest series of paintings, Nikola Tsvetanov returns to the raw materiality of paint as a refuge and an arena — a place where matter resists the digital smoothing of the world. His canvases do not simply bear traces; they accumulate them like geological layers: gestures, erasures, scratches, punctures, traces of physical time that shape their own analog topography. These traces refuse to be translated into the language of the pixel — an analog memory that resists digital transparency.

This insistence of matter resonates with what Lev Manovich defines as post-media sensibility — the state in which analog and digital exist not as opposites, but as mutually penetrating structures. In Tsvetanov, the canvas is at once a damaged screen and a hand-touched surface, an interface and a skin — a boundary through which the viewer sees not just an image, but the tension between two worlds.»
- Ivo Ivanov (excerpt from press release) underground

Many thanks to for serving free drinks at the opening.

21/11/2025

announcing the second deadline for the Open Call - Artist Residency ARV.International in Vishovgrad, Bulgaria. More info about the remaining available spots at www.arv.international (link in bio)

Second deadline: 22.11.2025