Ivo Dimchev

After graduating in London, the artist Zvezda has to return to Bulgaria to help her mother. She manages to arrange her first solo exhibition in a renowned Sofia gallery, but the dreamed opening triumph is canceled due to the Covid lock down.

Ivo Dimchev’s performance “Lili Handel” at the Szeged Thealter Festival, described as a blend of blood, poetry, and music, offers a unique and genre-defying experience that captivates audiences with its innovative use of stage gestures and lack of coherent text, providing a detailed biography of the enigmatic woman behind the title.

Bulgarian queer artist and songwriter Ivo Dimchev transforms personal and social hardship into provocative public and intimate spectacles, boldly exploring sexuality, identity, faith, and activism in a celebration of queer visibility.

In a dystopian future, a nation of bio-titans has been created and the female sex and procreation have become obsolete. As the Earth turns toxic, the bio-titans are eager to colonise the cosmos on board a colossal spaceship, taking with them only one female body kept barely alive as a reminder of the troubled past. But everything changes when the immortal calligrapher Krypton, tasked with creating an indestructible copy of the entire written heritage of his kin, sees a forbidden book turn into a feisty girl, Gargara.

Ivo Dimchev’s performance “Lili Handel” at the Szeged Thealter Festival, described as a blend of blood, poetry, and music, offers a unique and genre-defying experience that captivates audiences with its innovative use of stage gestures and lack of coherent text, providing a detailed biography of the enigmatic woman behind the title.

Ivo Dimchev’s performance “Lili Handel” at the Szeged Thealter Festival, described as a blend of blood, poetry, and music, offers a unique and genre-defying experience that captivates audiences with its innovative use of stage gestures and lack of coherent text, providing a detailed biography of the enigmatic woman behind the title.