Vases in clay, metal and found object
Same As It Never Was
2026
A work where form and content become inseparable. Vikenti Komitski engages directly with the theme of Border by inhabiting the threshold between past and present, craft and industry. The hand-shaped clay vessels, interrupted by metal and chain elements, stage a tension between the handmade and the industrially produced.
At the same time, the vessel itself becomes a border form defining inside and outside, containment and exchange. Rather than a fixed limit, the work presents the border as a site of overlap, where materials, histories, and meanings intersect.
“The Containers evoke modern cargo storage, but here they refer to one of the oldest human crafts: shaping clay by hand, before the invention of the potter’s wheel. Within the vessels, chains and metal details evoke modernism, highlighting the tension between craftsmanship and mass production, the handmade pitted against the industrially reproduced. The pots are Jungian archetypes— “a priori forms” that shape how we think, feel, and act. Like letters of an alphabet, they compose a formal grammar whose irregular contours echo the diversity of human faces and bodies. A practice that begins with the base elements of matter, in its most ancient composition. This marks Komitski’s first foray into this timeless technique, an experiment in dialogue with tradition.” (Tiziano Tancredi)
Vikenti Komitski (b. 1983) is a Bulgarian contemporary artist who works within a diverse range of artistic mediums. He has exhibited internationally at art galleries and art fairs alike with installations, objects, video works, drawings, and assemblages that reinterpret everyday materials and consumer objects. His practice often draws on psychoanalysis, critical theory, and contemporary urban culture, mixing a witty irony with conceptual investigation. Komitski studied sculpture at the National Academy of Art in Sofia and later continued with the “Art in Context” program at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He was a resident artist at Quartier 21, Museumsquartier and at Krinzinger Projekte in Vienna, at the ISCP in New York, Futura, Prague and at SIM in Reykiavik.
He is a recipient of the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art. His work has been shown across Europe and the United States, including exhibitions in Vienna, Rotterdam, Moscow, New York, London, Basel.
Sold Out Design is a contemporary art gallery located in central Sofia, founded in October 2023. The gallery represents artists from various cultural centres working across multiple artistic mediums. Its program features seven to eight curated exhibitions annually, alongside participation at international art fairs and festivals such as Collectible Brussels, Art Athina, and Buna Varna. Within the first two years the gallery operated in close collaboration with partner gallery Müller Contemporary Berlin. Currently Sold Out Design is owned and directed by Teodora Kotseva, who brings over two decades of experience in contemporary art and design, shaped across major
European cultural centres including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Milan, London, and Berlin.
Positioned at the intersection of contemporary fine art and functional art and design, the gallery’s program explores artistic expressions, highlighting works that challenge and expand traditional boundaries between art and design.