FREE ENTRY / Art Gallery Kazanlak - Exhibition Proposals: Bioethics

The team at Art Gallery Kazanlak announces a call for proposals for exhibitions to be held on the premises of the institution during the next exhibition period, from April 2025 to March 2026. As part of our endeavour to bring our audience new and different perspectives on the development of contemporary art, this year we are eager to support the implementation of projects dedicated to a topic that looms large and ever more painfully present in our lives: Bioethics.

Bioethics is a concept in contemporary human thought popularised by the biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter in 1970, when in a bid to ‘call attention to the fact that rapid developments and advances in science have occurred without due attention to values,’ he focused on issues of race, gender, human reproduction and human experimentation. This was a time when the atrocities of Nazi concentration camps were increasingly coming to light. The issue…