Radoslav Maglov is a Bulgarian visual artist and sculptor working in the fields of contemporary art, installation, and artistic research. Holding a PhD in Art Theory and a degree from the National Academy of Art, his work explores themes related to the body, memory, identity, and the interaction between humans and technology. His artworks have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Bulgaria, France, Germany, and the United States. In 2025, he was an artist-in-residence at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists and the Association of Finnish Sculptors.
*Vessel* table or a pontoon — a low, bare structure built for crossing rather than staying. Its six legs rise to height and branch into blackened wood, all bending in one direction, as if shaped by a current. A polished brass plate cuts perpendicular across the top, pointing past the table’s edge into open space; raw white silk fibers trail along both sides like a wake. The table as the surface that feeds, and the vessel as the means that carries you away. Reflecting on the Homeric idea of *nostos* — homecoming — altogether with Édouard Glissant’s notion of errantry, a journey with no guaranteed shore.
The uniform bend of the branches suggests direction, even destination — something like the pull of nostos, a current the whole form leans into. But the brass plate, cantilevered past the table’s edge into empty space, points toward nothing in particular; it indicates the fact of forward motion without confirming what lies at the end of it. This is the condition the piece asks its viewer to sit with: a vessel that is clearly headed somewhere, built by hands that clearly had a direction in mind, but which offers no shore. Only the crossing, and the table that feeds whoever is still making it. *Vessel* keeps its two identities — table and pontoon, nourishment and departure — in the same object without letting either one absorb the other.
About Radoslav Maglov: https://radoslavmaglov.com/about/
Duration: September 18 – October 18 2026 Venue: Laufen Roca Sofia Gallery, the exhibition space of Roca Bulgaria, 16 Knyaginya Maria Luiza Blvd., Sofia
The exhibition will be open to visitors from September 18 to October 18, 2026, and is part of KvARTal Festival 2026: The Future of the Old Town.