The Old School

Residence is a place of

transformation

We’ve been Bulgaria’s first international artist residency. Not the loudest. Not the most polished. But perhaps the most transformative. Here in Gorna Lipnitsa-a village that earned the Golden Seal as a “unique European settlement” -we’ve built something that can’t be replicated: a place where contemporary artists confront historical memory, bucolic silence, and their own creative courage.

140+ artists from 30+ countries have passed through our studios. They came seeking inspiration. They left
time. It gives you friction-the productive kind transformed. Because the Old School doesn’t just give you space and time. It gives you that sparks real change.