Bulgarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Bulgarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Princeton graduate student Julian Chehirian is representing Bulgaria at the 60th Venice Biennale. The Bulgarian Pavilion, on view through Nov. 24, will take visitors inside a chapter of Bulgarian history that has been largely absent from textbooks, museums and public debate — the forced labor and political violence in the Bulgarian gulag under Communist rule from post-WWII through the late 1980s before the fall of the Soviet Union.

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