Public Republic

Interview with the visual artist Julie Kaye by Aneliya Angelcheva

Julie Kaye was born in Leeds, United Kingdom. She received her BA at Leeds college of Art. Since her emergence in 2008 Julie Kaye has blended the concerns and methods of Pop and Conceptual art. Evolving new techniques of expressive popular culture to create her own [...]

Interview with the young photographer Abby Hollandsworth by Elisaveta Baltova
Abby Hollandsworth is a 16 year old photographer, born and raised on the East Coast of the United States. At the age of 12 she bought her first camera, and her passion for photography grew from there. Over time she came up with more and more [...]

Interview with Leila Ataya by Galya Mladenova

Leila Ataya was born in Russia, Moscow in 1979. From a very young age her life was strongly influenced by art. In 1995 she was accepted into Arts College in Russia, Moscow and continued her studies in watercolour and drawing.
In 1996 she moved with her family to New Zealand [...]

Interview with Cliff Snell III by Galya Mladenova

Cliff Snell III is the American “fairytale surrealist” artist. His “fairytale” swirling nature paintings are very distinctive, and his collectors prize his dreamy, but precise use of color. Naturalists enjoy his ability to present an accurate, if beautiful specimen of a plant, and those who seek beauty just [...]

Interview with Hristo Popov by Galya Mladenova

Hailed as “Virtuoso-violinist extraordinaire” by Musical Horizons, Hristo Popov, brings tremendous experience to the concert stage. Popov made his orchestral debut at the age of nine and since then has performed throughout the United States, England, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, and Mexico as both recitalist [...]

Interview with Sue Nichol by Galya Mladenova

Sue Nichol is a British artist who paints places with which she has strong associations and knows very well. She’s attracted to the ‘edges of the land’ – fabulous and varied coastlines or the rocky edges found throughout the British landscape. She paints using oils, acrylics and ink [...]

Interview with Nick Gentry by Galya Mladenova

Nick Gentry is a London artist. For his pieces he re-uses obsolete media formats of the past, like floppy disks and VHS tapes. He has participated in several exhibitions with other artists and a solo show called “Auto emotion”.
Nick’s art raises questions like “Can a human still be considered [...]

Kosara Belnikolova’s interview with the photographer Susan Sandérus
Susan Sandérus: “Live, love and let live”

Susan Sandérus lives in The Netherlands.
Photography is her passion and it’s her way of showing others her vision of life, people, landscapes and architecture. Her photos are seldomly just SOOC because is not a “news journalist”. Her photos reflect her own truth, [...]

Interview by Yana Radilova with Kelvin Sholar
Kelvin Sholar: I want to transfer life into music through inspiration

You have been related to music since your early childhood. Have you ever been interested in other kinds of art?
Yes! I love reading good writings and have had a few poems published. Now, Iʼm writing a book on music [...]

Dessislava Berndt’s interview with the boogie-woogie musician Axel Tsvingerberger
Translation: Yana Radilova

The 12th International Jazz Festival in Bansko ended 13 August 2009. This last jazz festival added to my life two new acquaintances – the style boogie-woogie and its most talented practicer – Axel Tsvingerberger.

I happened to be an interpreter of the Hamburg musician at one [...]

Interview with Antera by Galya Mladenova

Antera is a young artist who is deeply interested in painting, heroic fantasy and video games. She’s attracted to online games like World of Warcraft, which are filled with a rich mythology. She used to paint abstract art, but thanks to WoW, she switched to figurative painting back in [...]

Kossara Belnikolva’s interview with the cellist Kalin Ivanov

Kalin Ivanov, cellist, is a prominent soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and recording artist. Compared by the press to Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Piatigorsky and Jacqueline du Pré he is quickly gaining recognition as an artist whose “dramatic urgency and expressive tone” (The STRAD) is matched by “His deep, emotional, [...]

Adriana Dimitrova’s interview with photographer Dare Darlington

Self Portrait – Bang-a-licious
Asking a photographer questions isn’t very easy. So, at the beginning, how would you like to introduce your works?
Gosh, that’s tough, um.. I think I’d say something like: My greatest wish for my art is emotion. I want something to be felt and sensed, and [...]

Kosara Belnikolova’s interview with the violinist Ivo Stankov

Ivo Stankov has become one of the Bulgaria’s leading artists of his generation. He has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader in numerous countries.
Ivo’s studies took place at Dobri Hristov School of Music and Arts in his
hometown Varna, the Royal Conservatoire in Madrid and [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with photographer Juan Mendez
Translation from Spanish into Bulgarian: Violeta Boncheva
Translation from Bulgarian into English: Ivaylo Moutaftchiev

Juan Mendez
What attracted you to photography in the first place?
Photography, as a form of expression, gave me the ability to convey feelings, to share them with others. It attracted me since childhood; I was enthusiastic about it [...]

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 [...]

An interview with the French photographer Jean-Marc Caracci by Denka Koleva
Jean-Marc Caracci about HomoUrbanusEuropeanus
Jean-Marc Caracci is a French photographer with Sicilian origins.
Although Born in Tunis, he grew up in Montpellier, Southern France.
He worked in a car company till 2006, but then decided to be a fulltime photographer.
In June 2007, he [...]

Denka Koleva’s interview with Teodora Yordanova
Teodora Yordanova: Salsa is my passion
Teodora Yordanova was born in Sofia in 1990. For a year she has been living and studying architecture in Milan. She started learning ballet when she was three.
When she was twelve-years-old, she began her salsa training with Alfredo Torres. From 2006 to 2008 she danced [...]

An interview with Paulo Capelas by Kosara Belnikolova
Paulo Capelas: “God wants, men dream, the master piece arises”

Do you remember how and when you got interested in art?
Since my childhood I’ve shown aptitude with painting, drawing, modeling. I think it’s an innate characteristic. Later, as an adult, I decided that I should try to make [...]

An interview with the American artist Kent Lovelace by Asya Draganova
First of all, thank you for accepting our interview invitation, Kent. As a form of ice breaking I would like to ask you to introduce yourself to ourselves in a non-traditional way: it could be a song, a phrase, a colour… anything you like, [...]