The first exhibition of the year at the “Petko Zadgorski” Art Gallery in Burgas is entitled “I Dream of the Sea” and will present to the attention of connoisseurs selected works from the gallery's collection. The exhibition will open on February 3, 2026, at 5:30 PM in Hall I. The event is part of the project “Burgas – Green Haven of the Arts”, implemented by the Municipality of Burgas under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the financial support of the European Union – NextGenerationEU. Contract №BG – RRP-11.021-0005-C01 of 29.10.2025. Art historian Dr. Plamen Petrov will participate in the opening, and he will officially present the bilingual catalog “I Dream of the Sea”. The evening will continue with a concert by the Burgas band “Pregarnat Oblak” (Embraced Cloud), which will complement the artistic atmosphere of the event. The exhibition can be viewed until the end of March. Within the program, two public lectures on the topic “Problems of Contemporary Art” are also planned with the participation of leading art historians – Prof. Svilen Stefanov and Assoc. Prof. Suzana Nikolova. Art workshops on the topic “I Dream of the Sea” will be held in Hall I of the Burgas Art Gallery on three consecutive Saturdays, in which participants will get acquainted with techniques such as dry pastel, watercolor, and working with tempera paints. The workshops will be led by artist-pedagogues featured in the exhibition and catalog – Foti Fotev, Georgi Dinev, and Andrey Yanev. Young people and students from Burgas and the region will participate in them, and the created works will be presented on social networks and exhibited in the gallery halls. The musical-poetic performance “Shared Depths” will also be shown to the public. With the exhibition “I Dream of the Sea”, the Burgas Art Gallery also celebrates 80 years since its creation. Its beginning was established with the joint efforts of prominent Burgas public figures, artists, and cultural figures, and on April 7, 1946, the “Picture Gallery and Museum” was solemnly opened in the Exchange Hall of the Chamber of Commerce.