Client: Ministry of Culture Bulgaria

print | visual identity

22 students from four Danube riparian countries — Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, and Germany — explored the Danube region and its hidden heritage. This exploration resulted in 12 artistic positions, built around one central figure — the Danube — a river as diverse as the various people and cultures settled on its banks for millennia. In the time following a year-long research, the artworks were exhibited in the participating countries. After exhibitions in Ruse, Bulgaria, and Novi Sad, Serbia, the Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne, Germany, was the third and penultimate station of the work on its journey through Europe. The project was completed with the exhibition in the Austrian Cultural Quarter in Linz in November 2019. The research resulted in an exhibition, booklet publication, and a poster.

Time Travel — the subject of the Bulgarian project — is an exploration of abandoned, yet significant and compelling locations along the river. We designed the posters for all participating countries as well. Our approach towards this project was an effort to outline a specific story. Each country has its own narrative to compose within, letting the frame serve, like the Danube itself, as both physical and imaginary borderline.