📅 June 5 – 25, 2025

📍 San Stefano Gallery, Sofia

👉 Opening: June 5 (Thursday) | ⏰ 18:00 – 20:00

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BEEYOND THE FORM

No, it’s not a typo. “BEEyond the FORM” is exactly what Pavlin Radevski wants to say. One extra “E” hints that here, the form is influenced, intervened upon, cohabited with an unexpected co-author – the bees.

In his new solo exhibition, Radevski moves beyond traditional sculpture by creating works in collaboration with a swarm. In his studio in Elin Pelin, beehives are not objects of observation, but laboratories for a new kind of art. He places sculptural forms made of pigmented wax into active hives, where bees build upon, transform, and complete them – not by instruction, but guided by their own inner rhythm.

In this exhibition, Radevski introduces a new visual and material layer – the use of colored wax. Color here is not merely an aesthetic gesture; it is a provocation for the bees, a new form of dialogue through which they “translate” his forms into their own language. This approach adds another layer of unpredictability to the process and raises questions about perception, interpretation, and interspecies co-creation.

The result is hybrid forms where human intention and nature intelligence intertwine. These works are at once created and surrendered, completed and left open. A dialogue that does not seek control, but coexistence.

BEEYOND THE FORM is an invitation to view sculpture not as a static object, but as a process – living, organic, and unpredictable.

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Pavlin Radevski (b. 1975) is a sculptor and co-founder of DEPO SCULPTURE – a platform supporting emerging sculptors and fostering public debate about contemporary art in Bulgaria. His works have been exhibited in Bulgaria, the UK, China, and Turkey, and are part of the collections of the National Gallery and private galleries.“