Spaces Shaping Sofia – 9 Initiatives Leading Bulgaria’s Capital Contemporary Art Scene on LYNX ( Winter / 2026)
“In the past two years, the work done during the Center for Social Vision Fellowships has culminated in the annual festival Nine Elephants, which works towards activating art in the urban fabric, connecting creative and cross-disciplinary practices that envision new ways of seeing, cohabiting, and storytelling within the city. The festival extends to artists, writers, researchers, and locals to experience the city anew.”

“Dare to ask big questions”, an interview with Viktoria Draganova for Atelierul Revists (Winter 2025)

MIroslav Borshosh and Viktoria Draganova in conversaion on artistic interventions in urban spaces on DARIK (Winter 2025)

“Breaking out in Sofia”, a city report by Viktoria Draganova for GLEAN (Spring 2025)

“Constitutions” on e-flux education (Autumn 2023)

“Social Vision”, an interview with Viktoria Draganova on vijmag (Spring 2022)

“Et pourquoi pas Sofia ? Week-end arty et décalé dans la capitale bulgare” at Le Figaro (Spring 2022)

“The Possible Institution”, a review by Ashira Morris on Artforum (Spring 2021)

20 Questions to Viktoria Draganova on Kapital (Winter 2020)

“Where does education takes place today. A letter from Sofia”, a text by Viktoria Draganova on THIS IS BADLAND (Autumn 2019)
“Today, communities are heavily shifting, and information is easily retrievable at any place in the world. Under such societal framework, I’m glad to see in the realm of education an alert response by my colleagues at home (in Sofia) that is not solely directed at circulating knowledge. I see them develop their own paradigms of pedagogy, visibility and politics.”

Toni Nikolov’ thoughts on Alzek Misheff’s exhibition “The Smallest Paitings by the Swimmer” at Swimming Pool on Kultura Magazine (Summer 2018)

“The experiment and the new curatorial school of Swimming Pool”, interview with Viktoria Draganova on the first non-formal educational initiative in Sofia on Egoist (Autumn 2018)

A bigger Splash. Inside the Sofia art space in a rooftop swimming pool”, an interview with Viktoria Draganova on New East Archive/ The Calvert Journal (Autumn 2018)

“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week”, on “Voice 1/5: In Translation” by Snejanka Mihaylova and curator Viktoria Draganova on ARTnews (Summer 2018)
Art in General and Swimming Pool, an art space based in Sofia, Bulgaria, will present artist Snejanka Mihaylova’s first-ever performance in New York this week. Titled Voice 1/5: On Tradition, the work is part of Mihaylova’s long-term research project that interweaves the lives and beliefs of three female saints with contemporary feminism, nationalism, and radicalism.

“Pool Paintings Part I”, an interview with Navine Dossos on Tank Magazine (Summer 2018)
“For me, it is in places like Sofia, Ljubljana, Rijeka and Athens that really interesting things are happening for art. There is an energy and experimentation afoot that takes in the seriousness of what it means to be on the edges of Europe today, but also allows itself to play with those most precious commodities of time and space in ways that only these places can afford to do right now.” Navine Dossos

Sofia Art Map on vijmag (Spring 2018)
“The project is a private initiative of the independent contemporary art space Swimming Pool, but for its founders it carries a public significance. For this reason, the first art map of Sofia will position different actors within the scene—from public institutions to small spaces and project initiatives.”

Review by Krassimir Terziev on “The Blushing Valey”, a solo exhibition by Gery Georgieva at Swimming Pool for Kultura Magazine (Winter 2017)
“Each exhibition in this space adds its own reality to the traces of the apartment’s previous life. Each reshapes and appropriates it according to its “temporary tasks.” The experience is always personal and stirs different emotions, through which even the views from the terraces toward the otherwise indifferent Sofia appear transformed.”

“Glatt und schmerzsfrei geht anders“, Eugen Ei on States of Flux for Schirn MAG (Summer 2016)
The curator Viktoria Draganova has established a unique exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital Sofia: “Swimming Pool.” The project is now being presented in a laundromat in Frankfurt.”

Vladiya Mihaylova and Dimitar Bozhkov on the inaugural exhibition “Balconia” at Swimming Pool for Kultura Magazine(Spring 2015)
“Swimming Pool is a commitment to expanding the field of contemporary art, with the hope that it will attract new artists and audiences.”

The Guardian on Swimming Pool (Spring 2015)
“Contemporary art is located in a charming pre-war rooftop apartment with a mind-blowing 360-degree view of the city, and a real – albeit non-functioning – swimming pool. The latter serves as a “blue cube” to host artistic projects and performances twice a year. The first exhibition, Balconia, was curated by Swimming Pool founder Viktoria Draganova.”