Famous conceptual artists, Bulgaria-born Christo Javacheff will attend Tuesday the opening of the first Modern Art Museum in Sofia.

The event comes after decades-long struggle to find a shelter for Bulgarian contemporary pieces of art - installations, video works, performances, net-art, photography and others.

The new museum will settle in the once railway station of Podujane.

The permanent exposition will present works of artists like Nedko Solakov, Lachezar Bojadzhiev, Pravdoljub Ivanov, Kalin Serapionov, Ivan Mudov, Nadezhda Oleg Liahova, Alla Georgieva, Ljuben Kostov and many others.

The Bulgarian Transport Ministry granted the building to the museum, and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture supported the project financially, according to cult.bg.

Bulgaria was the last country in Europe and on the Balkans without a museum of contemporary art.

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