Meeting with Clara Rivault – French visual artist in residence in Bulgaria
2025.06.23
3 July 2025, Thursday, 2:00 pm, Academia Gallery, 1 Shipka Street, Sofia
The meeting is organised by the National Academy of Art in partnership with the French Institute in Bulgaria and the International Biennale of Glass, Bulgaria.
Free admission with prior registration
Consecutive French/Bulgarian translation
Clara Rivault (b. 1991) lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. Having gained extensive academic experience, she explores a number of complex traditional techniques related to the art of fire. Her interest in learning new methods and using a variety of materials quickly led her to collaborate with various craftsmen. The artist has participated in numerous artist residencies abroad, including Villa Medici in Rome in November 2023. She is an active member of POUSH, where she has had her own studio since 2020. Today, the artist specialises in the art of stained glass and dedicates her artistic efforts to this long-term creative process inspired by photographic samples. A close observation of organic materials and living tissues provides her with a palette of shapes and textures that the artist breathes into the glass, giving it a sculptural dimension.
In 2024, she created the work "Hedera" (Ivy), which adorns the facade of the Headquarters of the French Institute in Paris and symbolises cultural richness and diversity, international connections and encounters.
Clara Rivault is in residence in Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo at the invitation of the International Glass Biennale in Bulgaria and as a continuation of her latest work Les Treillis (Trells) at the Centre d’art Les Eglises de Chelles (Art Center of the Churches of the Municipality of Chelles), in which she combines wool and glass – two materials of particular importance in Bulgaria. She will be accompanied by textiles art specialists from the National Academy of Art and by Plamen Kondov, master glassmaker and lecturer at the University of Veliko Tarnovo.
The project is supported by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France and the French Institute, as part of the Strategy for International Export of Cultural and Creative Industries.
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