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Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with the designer Corinna Ketterling
Translation by Nevena Borisova

Are you open to change?
Change always give you motivation to respond and develop. According to Darwin, this reaction helps species to survive. This response to change leads the individual to a rising sense of satisfaction.
I actually love the stream of change and I [...]

Photo: Albena Popova

Oceana – “Cry Cry”
Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Photo: Albena Popova

Anna Grace – Let The Feelings Go 2009
Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

An interview with the pianist Ivan Yanakov by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Just before the concert of Ivan Yanakov on 26th November 2008 in Hamburg (organized by the German-Bulgarian society in Hamburg and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin) I got a chance to meet the famous Bulgarian pianist and got an exclusive interview special [...]

An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Foto: Dessislava Slavova
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and thus create an alternate world. [...]

An interview with Pavel Harapov by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation: Ellie Ivanova Ponti

Remember that good-natured woodcarver Geppetto who carved a marionette out of pine wood? And then a miracle happens: Pinocchio comes alive. Are these just children’s stories?

Photo: Galina Neykova
The winners of the photo contest “The Smile of the Summer,” sponsored by the multimedia magazine Public Republic, were announced and awarded on 9/29 during an art event in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Снимка: amatamoda
“I guess it’ s the search for perfection from season to season that moves me forward”
Alber Elbaz
Lanvin
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“To evolve is to continue to breathe creatively”
Maison Martin Margiela
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Lydia Kulekova is the third-place winner of the Modern Times photography contest, organized by Public Republic in 2008. She was born in 1978 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has completed two photography courses (1997 and 2002) and has participated in dozens of art shows and solo exhibits. Some of them are:
2007
Sleeping Things Exhibit, Photo Cult, [...]

Photo: woodleywonderworks
The team of the Public Republic Online Magazine is pleased to invite you to the multimedia Art Evening, organized with the support of the German-Bulgarian Society in Hamburg, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin, the Society for Bulgarian-German Economic and Cultural Relations in Germany, Bulgarreklama and Accents, a [...]

Gologan is a Bulgarian group that performs a unique mix of ethno-rock poetry. The group was founded in 2004, when poets Ivan Hristov (kaval, vocals) and Petar Tchouhov (electric guitar) began playing experimental art rock; they eventually began to add ethno elements as well. They were later joined by Angela Rodel (vocals and tambura), [...]

An interview of Nataliya Nikolaeva with Bozhana Apostolova – a poet, writer and publisher, owner of “Zhanet 45” Publishing House.

“Success is when you make people happy.”
Bozhana Apostolova
There are artists who have the talent of sheltering harmoniously within themselves several gifts. Such is the talent of Bozhana Apostolova – an inspired poet, prose writer and patron [...]

Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with Kiril Kolev

What are your signature photos?
The photos that most people like the most are “Stormy Paris” and “Margaretville”. My favourite one is “Playing with a Glass Ball.”

Margaretville
I find capturing people challenging, because there is so much going that is so difficult to convey in a snapshot. This is one of [...]

Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with painter Svetlana Gencheva
Translated from Bulgarian by Velina Vateva

The pure gaze of a child quickly grows dim under the influence of ideas, prejudices and abstract notions. The natural and free human being puts on the heavy armor of the Ego. Only after many years do we instinctively realize that the lifesaving [...]

Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with Albena Popova

“She indeed was not She
She could talk with clouds
She played at hide-and-seek and
Fumbled the pockets of moods…”
Albena Popova
Our readers are familiar with Albena Popova’s original and unexpected whims, with her artistic surprises, with her collages, the colourful things she creates. Her experiments with words and plastic arts play with fantasy—when [...]

Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with the photographer Andrea Kamal
My name is Andrea Kamal. I was born on February 10, 1965 in Mülheim an der Ruhr which is located in North Rhine – Westphalia in Germany. My father was an Egyptian and my mother is a German. After finishing my school education in 1984 I went abroad [...]

Translated from Bulgarian by Ellie Ivanova Ponti
Antonia Marinova is the second-place winner of Modern Times, Public Republic photography contest. She believes that art and culture is what we leave behind. Antonia has participated in dozens of photography contests as well as solo exhibits. Her photos have been published in Tema newspaper (Bulgaria), Ecology and [...]

Photo: 2dogs_productions
“Making things happen is a natural extension of myself.”
Issey Miyake
A-Poc

“Personality is what gives life to design.”
Michael Michalsky
Adidas
“Fashion is a language.”
Af Vandevorst

Photo: krisdecurtis
Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Dear friends of Public Republic,
Thank you for becoming part of our virtual-real space and for your support.

An artist needs the strength to bring out the spiritual light of the world around us.
Nikola Manev
Nikola Manev, a well-known Bulgarian-born artist, recently was granted the title of Academician by BANI (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts). In the past 45 years, he has been living and working in Paris, but remains connected to Bulgaria [...]