Screens and Schemes by Sabina Knetlová, Anna Maria Schönrock, Tereza Tomanová, Kalin Serapionov, Venelin Shurelov and Veneta Androva 16.10.2025 - 7.11.2025Curators: Vessela Nozharova and Alexandra Karpuchina

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The exhibition Screens and Schemes explores pressing issues of media disinformation, fake news, and political propaganda. In an era when people are constantly exposed to manipulative informational content, the need to foster critical thinking and media literacy is of vital importance.

Although the main instrument of disinformation is often the image itself, the visual arts rarely address this issue directly. Screens and Schemes is a joint project by two galleries – Credo Bonum (Sofia) and Karpuchina Gallery (Prague) – presenting the perspectives of six contemporary Bulgarian and Czech artists on these complex themes.

Created specifically for this project, the works span a range of media – from painting and sculpture to video – reflecting on the mechanisms that distort reality and the human perspective within these processes. In preparation for the exhibition, the participating artists engaged with media experts and worked with data and research developed over many years by specialists from Bulgaria and the Czech Republic – two countries that have been particularly exposed to media manipulation in recent years. Remaining true to their artistic practices, the artists create works that provoke reflection on the current state of our societies.

In her paintings, Anna Maria Schönrock focuses on the emotional and personal dimensions of her themes. Her works create new worlds within perceived reality and question the relationship between emotion and memory. She is interested in the illusion of the media environment and the phenomenon of alienation.

Veneta Androva explores power structures and ambivalences within contemporary systems. By combining documentary and speculative elements, she examines how technological environments and digital tools shape our understanding of truth, identity, and reality.

Through his art, Venelin Shurelov merges the human figure and technology, exploring the boundary between man and machine. Through interactive objects and scenographic installations, he reflects on how digital environments influence human behavior, desire, and perception of reality.

In his work, Kalin Serapionov focuses on video as a medium of visual tension and rhythm. He explores the relationship between image, space, and viewer, and through video installations reflects on urban environments, human behavior, and mechanisms of visual manipulation.

Sabina Knetlová’s artistic practice is defined by her use of concrete and other raw materials that embody both strength and fragility. Her sculptures often recall Gothic or mythical forms, merging the human and the architectural. She explores the tension between protection and vulnerability, between the living and the inanimate. Motifs of growth, flow, and interconnection frequently appear in her work, resembling roots or vessels. Through these material and symbolic contrasts, Knetová reflects on the invisible forces and information that shape our world.

Tereza Tomanová’s painting practice continually returns to the motif of the garden - a space where natural growth intertwines with human control. She often explores plants as carriers of meaning, touching upon fragility, cyclicality, and expansion. The blackberry bush is a recurring inspiration for her, admired for its delicious fruit and the vigorous spread of its thorny shoots, which she interprets as symbols of ambiguity. Its method of propagation, known as layering, becomes an apt metaphor for the way information spreads - branching, taking root, and multiplying. Tomanová paints with hand-prepared anthocyanin pigments whose low lightfastness she embraces as part of the work’s concept, emphasizing impermanence and transformation.