The National Academy of Arts celebrates the successful completion of the Class of 2025 with large-scale exhibitions in Sofia, Bankya, and Burgas.

On June 25, 2025, Wednesday, at 5:00 pm at the "Sea Casino" Cultural Center in Burgas, the graduation ceremony of the bachelors and masters from the Class of 2025 of the Burgas Branch of the National Academy of Arts will be held. During the ceremony, the alumni from the bachelor's programs "Painting", "Graphics", "Book, Illustration, Printmaking", "Poster and Visual Communication" and "Fashion Design", together with their colleagues from the master's programs "Art Therapy" and "Cultural Heritage of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast" will receive certificates of completed training from the Rector of the Academy.

At 6:00 pm, an exhibition will be opened, which includes the diploma works and projects of the students from the Class of 2025 at the Burgas Branch of the National Academy of Arts. The exhibitions of the graduates from the Burgas Branch of the National Academy of Arts are organized with the assistance of the Municipality of Burgas and the "Sea Casino" Cultural Center.

For the third consecutive year, the National Academy of Arts is turning Sofia into the epicenter of the large-scale project "Exhibitions of the Graduates of the National Academy of Arts - Class of 2025". Within 40 days, 22 exhibitions with the diploma works and projects of over 200 students from all specialties and master's programs at the National Academy of Arts will be opened in 14 galleries in Sofia, Bankya and Burgas.

This annual initiative, which has been a tradition since the early years of the State School of Drawing, is implemented in collaboration with a number of prestigious galleries and cultural spaces, giving a strong start to the young talents of Bulgaria and enriching the cultural life of the capital with unique diversity and dynamics.

The graduated bachelors and masters from the Class of 2025 of the National Academy of Arts present their works and projects, created with classical and innovative approaches, different means of expression, techniques and materials - from fine and applied arts to design, from restoration to digital arts and photography.

The project "Exhibitions of the Graduates of the National Academy of Arts - Class of 2025" is implemented with the financial support of the "Culture" Program of the Sofia Municipality for 2025. The media partner is the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, and the partners are the Sofia Municipality, the Regional Historical Museum - Sofia, the Union of Bulgarian Artists, the Art Center BANKYA and a number of prestigious galleries.