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  • 10 June, 2025
  • media Nationar Radio/Horizont/Before Others
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author Silvia Velikova

Lea Vaisova: The past mobilizes very strong polemical discussions

The past really mobilizes very strong polemical discussions, battles, and in this sense we see how history is used in the present with different political stakes and how the past mobilizes much more than different projects for the future. I am not sure that the future is in the focus of public debates.

author Viktoria Draganova

BREAKING OUT: ART IN SOFIA

A notable example of such involvement is Krassimir Terziev’s installation Between the Past Which Is About to Happen and the Future Which Has Already Been. Located at the site of the former mausoleum, this work was created as part of the municipality’s sole active programme for temporary public installations. Completed in 2024 after significant delays, the work was designed from the outset to encourage dialogue. It consists of letter-shaped benches arranged in an open circle, spelling out its title. This spatial composition confronts viewers with a paradoxical interplay of temporal layers, encouraging reflection on our position in the present. Steering clear of overt critique, activism or entertainment, Terziev instead offers a place to sit within the urban landscape — though not necessarily one of comfort. Perhaps this subtle balance is what has allowed it to resonate with the city’s inhabitants. A public programme featuring various conversational formats has been introduced…

author Daniel Nenchev

Three discussions on the state of contemporary society, heritage and prospects for the future

A conversation between Daniel Nenchev and Vladiya Mihaylova and Krassimir Terziev on the Radiocafe show. Between global processes and local actions, the city remains the place of our everyday life, worries, anxiety and satisfaction, personal plans and lifestyle.The city is the environment in which society is viewed as it is, along with its delusions, choices and actions. These will be the topics of three public discussions about the present, the past and the future.
  • 01 October, 2024
  • media The Telegraph: Ukraine The Latestte
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author Dominic Nicholls

Suprising mention in The Telegraph: Ukraine the Latest

In the podcast min 27:35 - 30:10 - Between the Past That Is About To Happen and the Future That Has Already Been - that captures Europe in one second. Like many many people today in Ukraine have been denied any futures. I thought it's quite striking. Let us know what you think.

author Diana Popova

The readings of the City

Artists have long used the text as a means of expression, and for specialists and connoisseurs of contemporary art, the difference between reading and reading is quite clear.
  • 20 June, 2024
  • media Studio/ Cultural Centre of Sofia University
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author Lyuboslava Hristova

Grammar of History in Images

[...] the new installation on the site of the demolished mausoleum rather offers us the intermediate state of a contingent present, sandwiched "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been." The conceptual work of Krasimir Terziev aims to bring to life the historical public place, where the burden of an absence, of a once powerful presence that seems to have left no one unparticipated, still weighs. The enchanted circle of the composition pessimistically locks us in the past, in repeating the same thing, and the neon light has a flashy, warning character - a ghost still roams Bulgaria. But it seems that the time has come for an exorcism in the processes of rethinking the urban space, as we see in the long-delayed dismantling of the Monument to the Soviet Army.

author Nadezhda Moskovska

Live conversation in the studio with Nadezhda Moskovska and Dimitar Bozhkov

On the day of the elections for representatives in the National and the European Parliament, we talk with the presenter of the program "Voice of the Time" on BNR/Hristo Botev, Nadezhda Moskovska and the philosopher Dimitar Bozhkov about the current issues surrounding the installation: how the text works in the spatial, echo, resistances, recognition and various other effects of the presence of the work in the public space.

author Diana Popova

The risks of reading

He should be the most famous artist in Bulgaria at the moment. But he is not. The most famous and discussed these days is his work on the site of the former mausoleum - "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been". The installation officially opened at the end of April and will remain there for a year. The work of the visual artist won in 2022 the second edition of the "Outside" program of the Metropolitan Municipality. A few days ago, the joint exhibition "Egg from a cow, milk from a hen" by Zelko Terziev, Kalina Dimitrova and Krasimir Terziev was presented in the Art Gallery - Dobrich. The exhibition presents a selection of works created in the period 2000–2024.

author Victoria Draganova

Art and the city - a conversation to come

[...] Here it is important to note that Krassimir Terziev works through the installation in this direction – it leaves the vertical axis characteristic of monumentality, and the letters are scaled so one is able to sit on them. In addition to the possibility of spontaneous use by passers-by, a discussion program is also being prepared, as well as an opportunity for artists to interpret the work in their own way.

author Valentina Dobrincheva

It is important to get rid of the complexes of the past and to have more continuity, according to the artist Krasimir Terziev

... Recently, the author installed in Sofia his latest work "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" on the site of the former mausoleum. It turned out that this thought was the title of his exhibition in Dobrich in 2015. The sentence from the installation in Sofia Krasimir Terziev considers as the quintessence of the transition ...

author Sevdalina Sarandeva

Conversation with Sevdalina Sarandeva

One of the intentions implemented in the project is to work against this trend in our society of increasing masses of people who believe that the earth is flat. There are more and more people who accept everything as black and white, and this I think is very harmful in the increasingly complex and unstable modern world. That's why I wanted to make something in this symbolic place that is not immediately decoded, on first reading, that provokes further readings.

author Daniel Nenchev, Milena Nikolova

The upcoming past and the former future

Either recycled images from the past or "outsourced" images from new technologies. This is offered to us as ideas for our own lives today, according to the artist Krasimir Terziev, who participated in the new episode of the Dir.bg Trendy podcast. His art installation "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" appeared recently at the site of the former mausoleum with the mummy of the communist dictator Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia. The art object, under the "Outside" program for exhibiting art in an urban environment, raised a public discussion on the following questions: What of the past do we want to preserve and what never to repeat?What are the ideas about the future that have the potential to unite us?What can contemporary art do?How do individuals respond to artistic challenges in a public environment?What is the level of public conversation with such…

author Teodora Dimova

Desacralisation

This installation does not impose its originality, it does not manipulate, it does not become a PR of its creator. It is placed in its right place. If it were placed in any other place, the sentence would sound abstract and pretentious. But it is in this very place that it acquires historical, political, social and existential meaning.

author Ивелина Тодорова

25 years after the demolition of the mausoleum in Sofia - here's what will take its place

Krassimir Terziev's work was selected in 2022 in the second edition of the "Out" Program of the Sofia Municipality among 8 other proposals. Experts from the Sofia City Art Gallery, the National Academy of Arts, the Ministry of Culture, the Public Expert Council on Spatial Planning, Urban Design and Advertising and independent external experts participated in the 13-member committee that reviewed the applications. The chairman of the commission is prof. Georgi Yankov in the composition of Adelina Fileva, arch. Boyka Kudreva, Dimitar Stoyanovich, Dr. Ilia Mechkov, Assoc. Mihail Gruev, Lyuben Genov, Polina Stefanova, Arch. Yoana Petkova, Lyuben Domozetski, Ilinka Chergarova, Gergana Mudova and Lachezar Boyadzhiev. The project was also voted by the Sofia Municipal Council after a public discussion with citizens and representatives of the cultural community.

author Frog News

A new modern art installation adorns the mausoleum site

The installation of the visual artist Krassimir Terziev "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" is already a fact in the City Garden in Sofia. The art installation is located on the site of the former mausoleum in the center of the capital. The crises we are going through reinforce the sense of the past. We are constantly replaying moments from the past and it is difficult for us to create visions for our future, Terziev, who is a doctor of cultural anthropology, told the Bulgarian National Radio.

author Viara Stoyanova

Time Shelter on the site of the former mausoleum

The idea is to revive the former mausoleum's previously empty site as a stage for events and meetings, rather than existing in isolation from the city's daily life. Terziev connects the chosen maxim about the past, the future and their interconnection.

author Mediapool

There will be a new temporary installation on the site of the mausoleum in Sofia

Нова временна инсталация ще заеме мястото на бившия мавзолей в центъра на София. Тя е на художника Красимир Терзиев и носи името "Между миналото, което е напът да се случи и бъдещето, което вече е било".

author Juliana Metodieva

Malina Edreva: The mayor must be able to balance in the interest of the free city, protecting the security of the citizens.

What happened to Krasimir Terziev's project "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been"? He was ranked first in the "Out" Program!Malina Edreva: The conciliation procedure took a long time.It's been a long time already...Malina Edreva: Yes, a lot. Just a few days ago I made an inquiry - the National Institute of Cultural Heritage issued an opinion and it was sent to the Ministry of Culture. Unfortunately, no response was received from the previous team led by Prof. Minekov. I expect now, at any moment, that this will become a fact and that Mr. Terziev will start implementing his project.

author Maxim Karadzhov

Krasimir Terziev for a new installation on the site of the mausoleum: If we do not accept the past, it returns

On Alexander I Batenberg Square, on the site of the mausoleum, a new art installation will appear after Plamen Deyanoff's "Bronze House" and Veselin Shurelov's "One Man". It will be a message in voluminous glowing letters that says "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been." The author is the artist Krasimir Terziev, who is also a professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University. In December, his project won the competition under the "Outside" program of the Metropolitan Municipality to exhibit this place. The implementation will cost BGN 100,000, which was approved by the Metropolitan Municipal Council.

author Marginalia

Krasimir Terziev for a new installation on the site of the mausoleum: If we do not accept the past, it returns

On Alexander I Batenberg Square, on the site of the mausoleum, a new art installation will appear after Plamen Deyanoff's "Bronze House" and Veselin Shurelov's "One Man". It will be a message in voluminous glowing letters that say "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been." The author is the artist Krasimir Terziev, professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University.

author Zelma Almaleh

Art requires trust

"I can't separate words and images. There is an image, visual, in the word and conversely there is a narrative in the image. So I can't separate them. I have always been interested in this relationship - how one text can evoke many images and how, conversely, one image, as they say, contains a thousand words." Visual artist Krasimir Terziev (pictured) shared with "vapreki.com".I speak with him in the Structure Gallery space, where his exhibition Reconstructing the Future is on display. Remarkable project! And the previous day, on the initiative of the Culture Directorate of the Metropolitan Municipality, the contemporary art projects in an urban environment, applied under the "Outside" Program (Direction 1 - City Garden - "Mausoleum Square" and Direction 2 - "Open") of Sofia Municipality. Krasimir Terziev's project "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" is ranked first in the…
  • 05 April, 2022
  • media Kultura - Portal for Art, Culture and Society
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author Диана Попова

Art in the public space requires courage – from everyone

For nearly two decades, the site of the former mausoleum in Sofia remained empty. And it stood as a white spot, symbolically marking the public failure to deal with the historical past, with the period of the communist regime. A white spot like a trauma in memory that cannot be understood or at least begun to heal. Sometimes ideas arose to place monuments on this site - of kings and khans, but they died. Perhaps because of the feeling that history cannot be "filled in" with even older history in the form of permanent monuments. They would only secondary mortify the place. A present with a future was needed, a perspective from which to make sense of this white patch of the past.
  • 23 February, 2022
  • media bTV Radio

author Svetoslav Nikolov

Art with a call for responsibility to the present

Reminding of the lessons of the past and our responsibility towards the future, a luminous inscription on the site of the former mausoleum, a mock-up of a block as a floating house for the ducks in the lake in "Druzhba" - these projects were broadcast by the commission for implementation in 2022 in the "Out" program of the Metropolitan Municipality . From this year, it has two components - in addition to an installation in the City Garden, it will also finance an artistic intervention in the urban environment.

author Svetoslav Nikolov

To learn from history and to take care of nature, the two works classified for implementation in the "Outside" program of the Metropolitan Municipality call us

Reminding of the lessons of the past and our responsibility towards the future, a luminous inscription on the site of the former mausoleum, a mock-up of a block as a floating house for the ducks in the lake in "Druzhba" - these projects were broadcast by the commission for implementation in 2022 in the "Out" program of the Metropolitan Municipality . Its beginning was established after the construction of the Bronze House on the ground on which the mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov was located. Last year, "One Man" by Venelin Shurelov appeared in this place. Now, in addition to erecting a temporary installation in the center of Sofia, the program will also finance an artistic intervention in the urban environment. We got acquainted with the applied projects and the arguments for the committee's selection at a special event at the Regional Center for Contemporary Arts "Toplocentrala" yesterday. At the beginning…

author Diana Yuskolova

There will be a circle of luminous letters at the site of the mausoleum in Sofia

An inscription of luminous letters will replace the installation "One Man" on the site of the former mausoleum in the center of Sofia. This became clear during the presentation of the contemporary art projects in an urban environment, approved under the "Outside" program of the Metropolitan Municipality. This year, two projects will be built under the program. The author of the new installation is Dr. Krasimir Terziev. The project envisages the construction of a circle with the inscription "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been". Unlike previous installations, which were placed in place, the structure this time will be horizontal. According to the project, the letters will be made of steel and will allow them to sit down. The sign will glow at night.

author editorial

A circle of luminous letters replaces the installation "One Man" in place of the mausoleum

An installation representing the inscription "Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" of volumetric double-sided luminous letters inscribed in a circle with an outer diameter of 12.5 m will replace "One Man" in place of the former mausoleum in Sofia. This became clear during the presentation of the contemporary art projects in an urban environment, which applied under the municipal program "Outside".

author Светослав Тодоров

Life in changes

Krasimir Terziev is both a witness to all processes in Bulgarian contemporary art since the 90s, an active participant in them and an artist from whom we can still expect unconventional ideas. And last but not least, realized through various means of expression: drawing, painting, video, photography, installation, sculpture. Terziev is also one of the first artists who experimented with the digital and moving image in our country, feeling the changes that the Internet brings to life.
  • 31 January, 2022
  • media Slaveykov Square (online journal for culture)
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author editorial

Let's dwell on the past - where the mausoleum was

"Between the past that is about to happen and the future that has already been" reads the message that will mark the site of the former mausoleum in the center of Sofia in the coming months. This is the idea behind the new installation that will replace "One Man" by Venelin Shurelov - the tall observing man who, in October 2020, lived out his life in this space steeped in history. The new installation is the work of Krassimir Terziev and will be implemented under the "Outside" program of the Sofia Municipality. The project was selected by an independent jury after a competition. The budget of the new work amounts to almost 100 thousand BGN. The message will be written in large neon letters, inviting residents of the capital and tourists to become part of the installation and think not only about the words they sit on, but also about…