Projects

The Jordan Petkov Art Foundation organizes and develops various innovative and complex interdisciplinary projects, often combining the participation of artists from both the visual and musical arts.

1. International Ex-Libris Competition Varna

Until 2021, the organizer of the competition was the Largo Gallery. Since 2022, this extremely successful and popular initiative of the gallery has been organizationally taken over by the Foundation. The Jordan Petkov Art Foundation organizes the next two editions of the competition, the implementation of which was financially supported by the Culture Fund of the Municipality of Varna and the Ministry ot culture of Bulgaria.

2. Traveling exhibition of the International ExLibris Competition Varna.

After the conclusion of the exhibition of the ex-libris competition at the Largo Gallery, it becomes a traveling one, and this tradition has been followed since the first edition of the International ExLibris Competition Varna in 2014. The exhibition visits universities, schools, museums, galleries and community centers.

In 2024, the exhibition traveled with the financial support of the National Culture Fund under the "Distribution" program. The collection was shown at the Petar Persengiev Art Gallery in Novi Pazar, at the Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen, in Veliko Tarnovo at the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University, in Kazanlak at the Acad. Dechko Uzunov Art School, in the Iliya Petrov National School of Arts - Sofia, in the Tsanko Lavrenov National Art School - Plovdiv, in the Dimitar Dobrovich National Art School - Sliven and in the Dechko Stoev City Art Gallery in Pomorie. In 2023, the exhibition of the fifth exlibris competition was also shown at the Center for Contemporary Art and Library - Burgas in partnership with the Burgas Branch of the National Art Academy and at the Dobri Hristov National Art School - Varna.

3. "Opera - Musical Painting" Project

In 2023, the "Jordan Petkov" Art Foundation, together with the Honorary Consulate of Italy in Varna, organized an interdisciplinary project "Opera - Musical Painting". The project was implemented with the financial support of the Culture Fund of the Municipality of Varna. The innovative event included the presentation of a painting exhibition by 15 Bulgarian and Italian artists in Balchik, Varna, Sofia and Rome. The openings of the exhibitions being accompanied by classical music concerts and opera galas. The project was implemented under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria and in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy in Bulgaria and the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia.

4. Night of Museums and Galleries, Varna

The team of the "Jordan Petkov" Art Foundation, in partnership with the "Talyana" Association, is organizing a European Night of Museums and Galleries in Varna in May 2023, 2024 and 2025. At the initiative of the Foundation, the Autumn Night of Galleries - Varna was also held, with its first edition being in September 2023.

After a break of several years, the active organized involvement of Varna cultural organizations was renewed thanks to the efforts of the Foundation's team. As a result of its work and the efforts and dedication of the teams of all participating museums, galleries and creative spaces, the 2024 and 2025 editions of the European Night were one of the most successful held in Varna and became an unforgettable celebration for all Varna residents and guests of the city. The financial support of the project by the Varna Municipality also played a big role in this. Fifteen Varna museums and 15 private galleries and independent spaces held over 45 events - exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, workshops, concerts. The events were visited by over 20,000 people in 2024 and over 45,000 people in 2025. The completely renovated Night website www.varnanight.bg, thanks to the Foundation's team, had over 13,000 individual visits in one week (2024) and became the best indexed thematic site in Google.

5. Varna Art Map

"Varna Art Map" is an innovative platform that collects and presents exclusively and only the public institutions, museums, independent spaces and galleries for contemporary and fine art in Varna. The project was created entirely with its own funds and efforts by the team of the "Jordan Petkov" Art Foundation in 2023, in cooperation with the "Talyana" Association. It includes a paper map and a website www.varnaartmap.com. The concept was provided free of charge by sofiaartmap.com, which project has existed and supports cultural tourism in the capital since 2018. In 2023, a print run of 5,000 copies of the Varna Art Map was printed and distributed to museums, galleries, hotels, alternative cultural spaces, as well as through the Varna Tourist Information Center. The domain varnaartmap.com was registered and a landing page was created, on which the PDF file of the map was uploaded so that it could be downloaded by interested visitors to the city.

In 2024, the Jordan Petkov Art Foundation was financially supported by the Culture Fund of the Varna Municipality for the implementation of a project that aims to further develop this innovative tool for promoting cultural tourism in Varna, to enrich it with more and more useful information and to make it even more accessible for use by tourists and guests of the city, as well as to print and distribute a new print run of 12,000 maps. The project realisation was supported by Varna comapany Top Mobility, which have a long-term and sustainable policy to support cultural projects, green urban environments and ecological mobility.