Today Art Museum, Beijing’s first non-governmental not-for-profit art gallery/museum, together with the Amsterdam-based foundation The One Minutes are presenting in the Chinese capital a series of 60-second videos from around the world, among which Bulgaria, in an exhibition entitled World One Minutes.

The art videos – about 1000 of them total from 90 countries –  will be shown from June 7 to 28 2008 as part of the city's official cultural programme dedicated to the Olympic Games.

One Minutes selected the films in partnership with respected curators, art critics, museum directors, art professors, artists and others in the field.

Videos to be projected from Bulgaria are Автопортрет в Езерец/Self-Portrait in Ezerets by Neno Velchev (2006), Лицето/The Face by Tsvetan Krustev (2005),  Контузия/Bruise by Naiden Kolchev (2003),  Едноминутно наказание/One-Minute Torture by Tsvetan Krustev and Georgi Krustev (2007), Извън мен/Outside of Me by Viktor Petkov (2006) and Tune-In by Dima Stefanova (2007).

World One Minutes is a yearly exhibition that demonstrates “what artists can do with sixty seconds of absolute freedom”, the foundation said on its website. To date, since World One Minutes' creation in 1998, more than 10 000 one-minute art videos have been submitted and are stored in the foundation's archives.

Opened in 2006 with a show of works by Fang Lijun, Today Art Museum has “struggled to mount consistently excellent exhibitions”, Chinese tourism guide City Weekend wrote on its website. The gallery's goal is to popularise contemporary Chinese art on the basis of international and modern ideology, along with exploring suitable stratgies for developing the museum's activities in a concrete context through partnerships and collaboration with other such institutions around the world.

After Beijin, the World One Minutes exhibition will move on to Lisbon, Zagreb, Istanbul and São Paulo, cumulating in the One World Minutes Biennale in 2010 and 2012.