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On October 10th, 2009 the MUSIZ COLLECTION Exhibition opens in the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Hamburg. For the first time works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sofia (MUSIZ) will be shown. The Institute's building was specially renovated for the occasion, and the exhibition can be visited till the 1st of November.

In 2005, after a long lobbying campaign and a number of art projects related to the issue of the museum, the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia (MUSIZ) at the Poduyane railway station in Sofia was announced. Despite the lack of a building, since 2006 the museum has been gathering a collection, from which the works included in the exhibition are part of. Specially selected for the event in Hamburg are those of artists, who already are historical figures in contemporary art, such as VALIE EXPORT and Martin Kippenberger, as well as young stars like Anri Sala.

There is more to be seen at the exhibition: the estranged, infantile figures in the paintings of Kati Barath; the marginal and absurd images, often associated with the representation of trauma, in the paintings of Berlin based artist Gunter Reski; the word-drawings of Fiona Banner - especially 'Black Hawk Down', 2004, her exploration about the modes of representation and narration in military movies, such as the one directed by Ridley Scott; a serial of self-portraits by the American artist Jimmie Durham, and stills from Sue de Beers video installation 'Hans und Grete', 2003, dealing with psychological imbalance and personality disorder in modern society.

Today the museum collection includes mostly artists from the 1970ies and 1980ies till present ones, naming William Anastasi, Greg Bogin, Clay Ketter, Imi Knoebel, Santiago Sierra, Mark Dion, Daniele Buetti, Italo Zuffi, Christoph Keller, Maria Lindberg, Olaf Nicolai, Alexander Brenner and Barbara Schurz, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Ralf Ziervogel, Michael Hakimi, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Sejla Kameric, Alban Muja, son:DA, as well as artists based in Bulgaria.