Artist and Architect Olympia Simopoulou Exhibits Fragments of Sofia and Venice 2026

Balgarianovinite.com Architect and visual artist Olympia Simopoulou presents her solo exhibition “Sofia/Venice – Fragments of Belonging”. It opens on January 15 at ONE Gallery in Sofia, the gallery announced on Monday.
The exhibition brings together two cities that the author considers her home, Sofia and Venice, exploring the themes of identity, memory, and belonging through visual fragments, textures, and layers of time, the announcement said.
“The works are constructed as spatial collages in which architectural details, urban surfaces, and traces of human presence intertwine in new, multi-layered images,” the organizers of the exhibit said.
The project is the result of years of research into the urban landscape through the practice of unplanned journey, known as “derive”, inspired by the Situationists. Simopoulou studies the city beyond its established image, collecting overlooked details, including facades, textures, and traces found in peripheral and forgotten spaces, which become the main visual material for the exhibition, the organizers explained.
“Venice and Sofia are like two different but equal voices. Venice speaks through the patina of time – erosion, decay, and continuity, while Sofia reveals itself as a city of constant transformation and contrast, where Byzantine, neoclassical, Soviet, and modernist architecture coexist and clash. Between these two cities, the exhibition builds a visual dialogue about how spaces shape our identity and how we, in turn, carry them within ourselves,” the gallery team added.
Olympia Simopoulou is an architect and visual artist who graduated from the Architectural Association in London. She has worked and lived in London, Hamburg, and Singapore. For the past five years has been based in Venice, where she participates in projects related to the Venice Biennale of Architecture and Art. She has worked on exhibition projects for the Anish Kapoor Art Foundation and the LAS Art Foundation, and on national pavilions and installations for the 2025 Architecture Biennale. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition in Montreal, Canada. Artist and Architect Olympia Simopoulou Exhibits Fragments of Sofia and Venice 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-01-12 22:55:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law