The exhibition presents a fragment of Bulgarian art history in the form of a visual essay. It is an interpretation of the spirit and the broader aesthetic and cultural background of the post-war twentieth century in Bulgaria — a collaborative work by specialists from different professional fields. As Milla Mineva writes in the publication accompanying the project: “Opening a space for utopia and for a collective project at a moment when time itself has renounced collective projects.”

The exhibition Places and Rituals traces the development of the two main strands in Nadezhda Kuteva’s oeuvre, from her graduation from the National School of Fine Arts in 1964 to her final works. Almost everyone who writes about her work, in an attempt to identify its distinctive character, repeats the word “rhythm.”