Cooltsalon

06/01/2025

Happy first Monday of 2025! Kickstart your week with some print art and get 1 of 10 limited copies of our 10-year anniversary poster: available from online pop-up shop.

https://cooltsalon.com/pop-up-shop

Created by our past collaborators and friends, you can find out more about this project on our website.

28/12/2024

The final contribution to our collaboratively designed poster is from .tchapanova Regular co-creator of many of the zines (2018-2022), Daria is a visual artist and social researcher based in Vienna, Austria. Her work spans different media and forms, including interventions, photography, collage & video.

To mark our 10th anniversary, we've invited friends and collaborators to co-create a limited edition poster. The final result is now available in our online pop-up store: tap link in bio for full details.

After recovering our printing costs, sales proceeds will be donated to support the work of and independent print editions in Ukraine.

26/12/2024

The fourth piece of our collaborative poster is from

Rosie is a visual artist and cofounder of the art collective .becomes.water (2010). She is always experimenting with new media when developing her projects, which underscores her innovative approach to art. Since 2021 Rosie's focus is on tufting and textile work, which leads to participation in various design festivals and exhibitions, as well as residencies in Italy and Norway. Rosie's works alongside those of Blood Becomes Water's have been presented in numerous exhibitions and print works fairs.

To mark our 10th anniversary, we've invited previous collaborators and friends to design one poster together. The final result will be revealed on 27 December: tap link in bio for details.

Rosie's photo: Anna Maconi.

25/12/2024

To mark our 10th anniversary, we've invited previous collaborators and friends to design one poster together. The final result will be revealed on 27 December: 10th Anniversary Co-created Poster Drop The third piece of our collaborative poster is from Andy Wooding:

Andy Wooding is a filmmaker, musician, comedian and artist from Liverpool, living in London and working worldwide.

"I entered this project knowing that Oli, Cooltsalon founder, creator and the first artist for this piece, is Ukrainian and I wanted to build on the existing blend of Bulgarian and Ukrainian patterns, so I added a hopeful sky blue background to reference the Ukrainian flag. The flag’s blue is actually deeper but I wanted to create lightness and a dreaminess that mixed well with the red that the second artist Roxane used for her text background. The vases are traditional Ukrainian and the idea was to invert them into what could be seen as bombs or pillars.

I also wanted to test-drive some generative AI so some small images were added that came from the commands “whatever,” “anything,” “generate,” and “feel.” I’m not sure what the images actually are or whether it even matters but AI is here and it’s impacting all businesses and artistic mediums on and off-line so it felt interesting for it to have a small, if insignificant and meaningless, part in the project."

24/12/2024

The second piece of our co-created poster is from our long-term collaborator and on/off core team member, Roksana Gotz:

"My voice into pieces” is a deconstruction of my poems. Randomly placed words and sentences from my existing poems that create a puzzle for people to play with. Inviting them to read me, to hear me in a way they choose. My words become theirs, each time creating a new poem, for infinite number of times. My art no longer exists, only new versions of it, that will have my name but the soul of someone else.
I never had an interest in the final form, art is a process and this is my attempt to burn my texts in hope that someone will feel while playing with their ashes."

Roxana Gotz is a conceptual/performance artist and writer. Her work delves into the raw complexities of human connection and identity, exploring themes of trauma, transformation, the tension between hope and despair, brokenness, and the journey toward embracing both light and darkness within.

To mark our 10th anniversary, we've invited previous collaborators and friends to design one poster together. The final result will be revealed on 27 December: 10th Anniversary Co-created Poster Drop

23/12/2024

The first piece of our collaborative poster is from our founder Oli Gots "The pattern is a merger of Ukrainian and Bulgarian traditional embroidery design, vyshyvanka and shevitsa. My roots by birth and my adopted country, my dual legacy neither of which is fully my identity. I placed it across to serve as a starting frame of the prospective poster; something that can be worked with or within it."

Oli Gots (she/her) is is a multi-hyphenate Storyteller, operating between Sofia, Bulgaria and London, UK. Working with both text and visual media, her projects are dedicated to exploring notions of space, place, trauma, belonging and identity. When not realising her own works, Oli curates projects with Cooltsalon, an international collaborative platform she founded in 2014, offering exposure and shared know-how to creative urban dwellers.

To mark our 10th anniversary, we've invited previous collaborators and friends to design one poster together. The final result will be revealed on 27 December: Anniversary Co-created Poster Drop

12/12/2024

Малко пред-празнични новини от нас 🎁

In October 2024 Cooltsalon turned 10. Although our activities have been on pause lately, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate all that’s been achieved since our very first curated art exhibition…

12/12/2024

In October 2024 Cooltsalon turned 10. To commemorate the occassion, we extended invites to previous collaborators to join the making of a co-created poster: each part of it to be designed by a different person, starting with our founder providing the layout.

The co-created poster features elements from and We're so grateful and buzzed! 🙏🏻🙌🏻

The final result will be offered in our online pop-up store as a limited 10-copies run, with all sales proceeds being donated. Stay tuned!