The exhibition is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the founding of the National Art Academy* and is the climax of the celebration activities commemorating the event.
A hundred and six lecturers with over 300 works take part in the exposition which occupies all exhibition halls of the National Art Gallery.

The wide range of genres, styles and aesthetic concepts is a visual demonstration of the intense and dynamic development of the oldest art educational institution in Bulgaria.

In the course of the years of its long history the National Art Academy has earned its unique place in Bulgarian culture accomplishing a mission which far surpasses its purely educational functions and placing it high as an acknowledged spiritual centre. Despite the existing alternative institutions, the National Art Academy undoubtedly continues to be the most prestigious place to acquire knowledge and skills in the field of the fine and visual arts. Combining the centuries old tradition in the academic training with the reconsideration and the development of the contemporary visual forms, the academy remains in the centre of the complex process which has formed generations of artists and creates individuals in Bulgarian art.

At present the National Art Academy has attracted as lecturers one of the most outstanding representatives of the different arts and whether it comes to painting, sculpture, graphics, poster, printed graphics, multimedia, different kinds of design, ceramics, glass, wood-carving, restoration or art studies, their work is marked by excellence and professionalism.

The jubilee exhibition of the National Art Academy presents authors from different generations with different aesthetic outlooks and directions of development thus showing both the broad panorama of Bulgarian art at its utmost and the claims for its future rooted in the development of the next generations of artists.

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* Nikolai Pavlovich was the first to propose the establishment of a Bulgarian School of Drawing in 1864. Together with Konstantin Velichkov and with the co-operation of Ivan Shishmanov, Ivan Murkvichka and Anton Mitov he drafted and deposited in the National Assembly a bill for its establishment. On 14th October, 1896 the State School of Drawing was opened.