Clemens Wolf – "Tension and Plus, Minus – Two Poles of Tension"
Gallery +359 | 
March 29 – June 5, 2025 | 🕒 Open: Tuesday – Saturday | 16:00 – 19:00 | 13 A Galitchtsa str.
Austrian artist Clemens Wolf (b. 1981) is known for his bold combination of materiality and concept, where sculpture, painting, and installation meet. His works explore the tension between lightness and weight, stillness and movement, stability and vulnerability, capturing the fragile balance between control and release.
Wolf has received multiple awards, including the Strabag Artaward (2009) and the Anton Faistauer Prize (2011). His work is widely recognized in Europe, Turkey, Israel, the US, and China and is part of major collections such as Albertina in Vienna, Strabag Art Collection, and Artothek des Bundes Vienna.
One of the distinctive features of his art is the use of parachutes, which Wolf recovers, transforms, and shapes into imposing sculptures or painted surfaces. For the artist, the parachute is not just a practical object but a symbol of the tension between the desire for freedom (ascent) and the weight of gravity (descent). Treated with epoxy resin, these parachutes become towering sculptures, revealing a tangible contrast between the material and the treatment they undergo. The resulting folds and modeled shapes reflect a profound study of fragility, balance, and resistance.
His works habitually reveal an almost organic quality, where the surface becomes fertile ground for the continuous interaction between matter and abstraction. Thus, the epoxy resin not only fixes the form but also captures the energy of the gesture, creating glossy surfaces that emphasize the tension between rigor and permeability.
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Plus, Minus
📍 Charta Gallery | “Plus/Minus” | 📅 March 29 – June 5 🕒 Open: Tuesday & Friday | 15:00 – 19:00 | 12 Vrabcha str.
Parallel to the site-specific installation at Plus 359, the exhibition Plus, Minus—through a fluid chain of works originating from the symbols + and –—further explores the visual and conceptual contrast of opposites, using a limited palette of red and blue. These primary colors serve as metaphors for polarity and opposing forces, eternally in tension. Here, the gallery entrance is characterized by Barriers and Transitions, structures reflecting the duality between separation and connection, anticipating the theme of polarity—expressed simply through positive and negative, addition and subtraction, as well as dynamism and stillness—as the foundation of existence. Temporal Dimension and Artistic Process highlights the evolution of creative ideas over time, with expressions that complete and transform themselves in a conscious dialogue between past and present.
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To Collect Contemporary Art at Limnos Land Art
Limnos, Greece | june 6 – september, 2025
Open 24 / 7 | 12 Vrabcha str.
Contemporary art meets nature at Limnos Land Art. This time, Todor Rabadzhiyski will immerse himself in the landscape of the Greek island of Limnos, transforming into site-specific work of art.
new venue in Istanbul
📍 Collect Gallery | 🗓️ Offical opening in October
at Tomtom, Yeni Çarşı Cd. No:8, 34433 Beyoğlu / Istanbul.
Upcoming in the heart of sofia
📍 Charta Gallery | 🗓️ July 15 – September 30, 2025
Gallery Charter presents “Coded in Blue” – the fourth edition of the series “From the storage”, which presents thematic selections of works from the collection of “To collect contemporary art. After black and white, now a space is opened for the color that we most often associate with imagination, silence, the immaterial and the deep.
The exhibition focuses on the iconic ultramarine color of Yves Klein and traces how different authors use blue – as an emotional accent, a conceptual code or a visual experience.
The gallery team presents works by Clemens Wolf, Simeon Stoilov, Stella Vasileva, Flavio Poli, Lyuben Zidarov, Rosen Rashev – Roshpaka and limited prints by Yves Klein himself.
Performance by Nevelin Ivanov
📍 Gallery +359 | 🗓️ June 20 2025 | curator Vasil Vladimirov
In this performance, Nevelin Ivanov completes a stage of his institutional formation by dismantling the very symbols of his academic training. Just days after his formal graduation from the National Academy of Arts, he invites the audience to participate in the destruction of hundreds of drawings created during his four-year course – works accumulated not as independent works but as tools within the educational system. These drawings, once hidden behind torn plastic in You Will Not See This Exhibition, now reappear – only to be cut up, piece by piece, by the viewers themselves.
