On 17 September 2026, an exhibition of works by participants in the Twelfth Plein-air Wine Event opened at the Hadji Dancho’s Houses Ethnographic Complex in Sliven.
NEF ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’ organised the event again this year with the support of the Sliven Community Donation Fund, which provided materials for the artists.
The Sliven artists who took part in the plein-air event included Dora Kurshumova, Gabriela Stefanova, Teodora Mihaleva, Penyo Ivanov, Yani Atanasov. Rosen Kavrakov, Kuncho Kunchev, Petar Kayruakov and Anton Kanchev. They painted on round canvases of 80, 90 and 100 cm in diameter.