ATTRACTIONS / DESTINIES

L.I.N.K Gallery / 9.10.2026 – 7.01.2027

L.I.N.K. Gallery Opens Its Space with “ATTRACTIONS / DESTINIES” Curated by Kathy Alliou Opening: 9 October, Friday, 7 PM L.I.N.K. Gallery | 1 Yanko Sakazov Blvd., Sofia Participating artists: Apolonia Sokol, Boryana Petkova, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Dimitar Solakov, Iskra Blagoeva and Mihail Novakov, Kalin Serapionov, Mariana Vassileva, Maryn Varbanov, Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova, Nedko Solakov, Plamen Dejanoff, Šejla Kamerić On 9 October 2026, L.I.N.K. Gallery opens its doors in Sofia as a new space for contemporary art, placing relationships between artistic positions, cultures, and generations at the heart of its programme. The gallery inaugurates its space with “ATTRACTIONS / DESTINIES,” curated by Kathy Alliou, on view through 7 January 2027. The title of the exhibition draws on the proposition of the French philosopher and social theorist Charles Fourier that “Attractions are proportional to destinies.” The slash between Attractions and Destinies simultaneously connects and separates the two notions, marking the space between what draws us towards something and the directions in which those attractions may lead. Here, attraction is understood as a possibility for encounters between people, artworks, ideas, and contexts. The exhibition traces different artistic affinities and relationships across generations and geographies, revealing connections between particular moments in Bulgarian art history and a broader international context. Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the exhibition proposes a network of relationships. Works encounter one another across time and space, revealing unexpected affinities, divergences, and continuities. Artists from Bulgaria and beyond, representing different generations, are brought together within a shared field in which historical context is not a closed framework, but a point of departure for new readings. As L.I.N.K. Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, “ATTRACTIONS / DESTINIES” also articulates the way in which the gallery understands its own name. A link often begins with an attraction — with something that brings people, artworks, ideas, or different worlds closer together. It is precisely the potential of these relationships to generate new meanings and perspectives that lies at the heart of L.I.N.K.’s programme. The title also speaks to the acts of curating and collecting: to the process of bringing together artworks, artists, and perspectives from different places and generations, and to the possibility that meaning emerges precisely through the relationships between them. The inauguration of L.I.N.K. Gallery takes place in partnership with Sofia Art Fair (SAF), as part of the fair’s third edition. The project is being implemented with the support and partnership of the French Institute in Bulgaria and the Embassy of France in Bulgaria, as well as with the kind cooperation of the National Academy of Art and the Sofia City Art Gallery and THE PILL Gallery.