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Born in 1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.

Education:
1980 - Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2006 - "Crawling Carpets", Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia (curator Melentie Pandilovski)
2004 - "Roma in Sofia", solo presentation, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2003 - "Hot City Visual", ATA Center/ Institute for Contemporary Art-Sofia, Sofia
2002 - "In/Out…", Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia
2001 - Knoll Gallery, Vienna
- ""The Chairs…", Museum in Progress, Vienna
2000 - Remont Gallery, Belgrade
- "E-FACE 2000", ArtMediaCenter TV Gallery, Moscow
1999 - "Reachable(s)", CIX Gallery, Skopje
- "@e-face.show", Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
- "In/Out…, in again", at the Swiss Embassy Residence, Sofia
1998 - "Small Talk 1", Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
- "Revolution for All", Holden Gallery, Manchester
1997 - "I love Jesus - Souvenir Shop", former Bulgarian Embassy, Cetinje, Montenegro (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Cover Version 2", Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Cologne
- "Up and Down. Back and Forth", 68 Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool
- "Gallery by Night" (with Roza El-Hassan), Studio Gallery, Budapest (curator Barnabas Bencsik)
1995 - "The Fountain of Europe", National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
- "Astrologic", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
1994 - "The Fountain of Europe: Doubletake", Center for Curatorial Studies - Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
(curator Vasif Kortun)
1993 - Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Munich
- Solo presentation, KUNSTRAI '93, Amsterdam
1992 - "Festigung des Glaubens", IFA Galerie, Berlin (curator Barbara Barsch)
- "Crucifixion for the Fisherman - 150 drawings", Lessedra Gallery, Sofia

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 - "Attitude 2007", CAMK - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (curator Hiroshi Minamishima)
- "Plus ZWEI (two)", MKM Museum Kueppersmuehle fuer Moderne Kunst, Duisburg (curators Markus Lupertz,
Walter Smerling, Iara Boubnova, Liviana Dan)
- "PragueBiennale 3. Glocal and Outsiders: Connecting Cultures in Central Europe", Prague (curator Aaron Moulton)
- "Overexposures 2007", French Cultural Center/Goethe-Insitut, The Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania
- 2nd Moscow Biennial, "Footnotes. On Geopolitics, Markets and Amnesia". Moscow
(curators Joseph Backstein, Roza Martinez, Fulia Erdemci, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova)
2006 - "Neither a White Cube nor a Black Box. History in Present Tense", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia
(curators Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova)
- "Belief", 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore (curators Fumio Nanjo, Sharmini Pereira, Eugene Tan, Roger McDonald)
- "Important Announcement", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curators Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva
- Danube Flood Relief Benefit Auction, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary TBA-21, Mucsarnok, Budapest
- "Check In – Europe", EPO, Munich (curator Marius Babias, etc.)
- "Periferic 7. Focussing Iasi.", Section "Social Process", Iasi, Romania (curators Marius Babias, Angelika Nollert)
- "Wild Capital", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (curator Christiane Mennicke)
- "Urban Legends", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
- "Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe", MNAC, Bucharest; and touring to 8th International Documentary Festival,
Olympion Cinema, Thessalonica; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Spazio RAS, Barcelona
(curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi)
2005 - "Play Sofia", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curator Hedwig Saxenhuber)
- "Crossing Borders", Berwick Film & Media Festival, Gymnasium / Town Walls, Berwick upon Tweed
(curators Chris Byrne, Iliyana Nedkova)
- "Memory Lane", part of "Beyond. Simultaneous Projects", 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (curator Rene Block)
- "Urban Realities: Focus Istanbul", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (curator Christoph Tannert)
- "Sus les ponts, le long de la rivière...", Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (curator Enrico Lunghi)
- "Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe", Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels;
Witte de With Foundation, Rotterdam; Kunst-Werke, Berlin (curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi)
- "NowHere Europe", 51st La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event. (curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi)
- "Belonging", 7th International Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (curator Jack Persekian, Tirdad Zolghadr)
- "Heal the World: A Tightly Curated Approximation of a Global Lifestyle," The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
(curators Sunny Rahbar, Tirdad Zolghadr)
2004 - "Cosmopolis", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica (curator Magda Carneci, Maria Vasileva)
- "Glocal", City Art Gallery, Pristina (curator Gezim Qendro)
- "Paravent", factory - Kunsthalle Krems (curator Baerbel Vischer)
- "Love it or leave it", 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro (curator Rene Block, Natasa Ilic)
- "Bound/less Borders", International Center of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
- "Privatizations. The Post-communist Condition", Kunstwerke, Berlin (curator Boris Groys)
- "Donations", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia
- "Multiplication", British Council / Sofia City Gallery, Sofia
2003 - "In the Gorges of the Balkans", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (curator Rene Block)
- "Straßenfeger / newspaper for homeless in Berlin", special issue, Berlin (curator Andreas Schlaegel)
- "Video Screening 04", Galerie Martin Janda_Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna; VTO, London;
- ZERO Arte Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; etc. (curator Andreas Huber)
- "Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans", The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (curator Harald Szeemann)
- Phodar Biennial, City Art Gallewry, Pleven, Bulgaria
- "Mors Impossibilis", Irida Gallery, Sofia (curator Boris Kostadinov)
- "Bound/less Borders", Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, Bucharest; Thessalonica; on trucks, streets of Sofia; Rijeka
- Sofia Film Fest / Digital Weekend, Red House, Sofia
- "Export –Import", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
2002 - "VHS", Section 13-UBA, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
- "Self-Portrait", Borusan Art Center, Istanbul (curator Beral Madra)
- "Vision - Image and Perception", C3 Foundation and M_csarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest
- "In Search of Balkania", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
(curators Peter Weibel, Roger Conover, Eda Cufer)
- "Balkan Art ‘02", Center for visual culture "Golden Eye", Novi Sad (curator Sava Stepanov)
- "5th Cité des Ondes" - Champ Libre, Craig Pumping Station, Montreal (curator: Stephen Kovats)
- "Kunstsommer Wiesbaden 2002. 40 Years of Fluxus Festival. International Networks", Karstadt Technikhaus,
Wiesbaden (curators Rene Block, Rirkrit Tiravanija)
- "Girls and the Sea", Bulart Gallery, Varna (curator Maria Vassileva)
- "Conflicts and Dialogues", 3rd Festival "August in Art", City Art Gallery, Varna (curator Roumen Serafimov)
- "Long March. A Walking Visually Display", (along the route of Mao’s Long March), Long March Foundation, China
(curators Lu Jie, Qiu Zhijie)
- "Budapest Box", Ludwig Museum, Budapest (curators Katalin Timar, Dora Heguy, Roza El-Hassan)
- Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (curators Iara Boubnova, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley)
- "Reconstructions", 4th International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro (curators Iara Boubnova, Andrei Erofeev, etc.)
- "An Artist who does not speak English is not an artist", Tallinna Kunstihoone (Tallin Art Hall), Tallinn
- Bound/less Borders, Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, Belgrade; Cetinje, Sarajevo, Skopje
- Micro-Festival of Digital Culture and Debate, Sofia (curator Iliyana Nedkova)
- Graphica Creativa ’02, Jyvaeskylae Art Museum/Jyvaeskylae Centre for Printmaking, Jyvaeskylae, Finland
- "The Collective Unconsciousness", MIGROS Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (curator Heike Munder)
2001 - "Konverzacija (A Short-Notice Show)", Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- "Escape", The Tirana Biennial, Tirana (Artistic Director Giancarlo Politi)
- "VideoJune. Videoscreening 03", ZERO Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza
- "An Artist who does not speak English is not an artist", Knoll Gallery, Budapest
- "Motel Je_evo", Je_evo Detention Center (near Zagreb), Croatia (curator Nada Beros)
- "Small Talk", Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
- "Hybrid Dwellings", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland (curator Denise Carvalho)
- "Do not Look at Me with This Tone", Section 13-UBA, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
- "Reality Watch_ICA", Municipal Art Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Correspondences", IFA Galerie, Berlin / Stuttgart / Bonn (curators Barbara Barsch, Suzana Milevska)
- "Perfect Match", Main Shopping Center ("…% Sex Up" at LISCA Lingerie Shop), Skopje (curator Suzana Milevska)
2000 - "Leseraum", Secession, Vienna (a project by Roza El-Hassan)
- "I Love Art Video", Videonight at Wacken Theater, Strasbourg
- "COMMUNICATION", Aschersleber Kunst- und Kulturverein, Aschersleben, Germany (curator Hans Knoll)
- "At Room Temperature", Studio of Ivan Moudov, Sofia (curator Dessislava Dimova)
- "After the Wall", Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- "Négociations", CRAC-Séte, Séte, France (curators Bernard Marcadé, Nicolas Bourriaud)
- "cooperativ – Kunstdialoge Ost-West", Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany (curator Friederike Kitschen)
- La Folie Archive(s) - contribution; "La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire 1998-2000", Villa Medici, Rome
(curators Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist)
- "ArtMoscow ‘2000" (with TV Gallery, Moscow), Central House of the Artist, Moscow
- "Pro@Contra – MachineMachy", ArtMediaCenter TV Gallery, Moscow
- "100 days – no exhibition", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (curator Hildegund Amanshauser)
- "L’Autre moitie de l’Europe. Social Reality / Existence / Politics", Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
(curators Victor Misiano, Lorand Hegyi, Anda Rottenberg)
- "Worthless (Invaluable)", Moderna Galerja, Ljubljana (curator Carlos Basualdo)
1999 - "Interstanding 3 - Beyond the Edge", 6th Annual Show of SCCA-Tallin, Rotermann Art Center, Tallinn
- "On Demand", Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
- "publi©domain", Fototriennale ’99, Graz, Austria (curators Werner Fenz, Ruth Maurer)
- "After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
(curators Bojana Pejic, David Elliott)
- "TEMP-Balkania", Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- "Always Already Apocalypse", The Institute for Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seizmology, Skopje;
Yildiz Sabanci Kultur Merkezi at the 6th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (curator Suzana Milevska)
- "Videoarchaeology", Ata Center for Contempoarary Art, Sofia (curators Boris Kostadinov, Zhivka Valiavicharska)
- "Turning the Page", Apolonia ‘99, Sozopol, Bulgaria (curator Dessislava Dimova)
- "Recipes", Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
- "Communication Front", Old Turkish Bathhouse, Plovdiv (curators - Foundation "Art Today", Plovdiv)
- "Leisure and Survival", Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (curator Silvia Eiblmayr
- "Translocations. (new) media/art", Generali Foundation, Vienna (curator Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schollhammer)
- "Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans", National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; and touring to
ArtExpo Foundation, Bucharest; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; Art Box, Kavala;
Contemporary Art Center of Larissa (curator Andre Rouille)
1998 - "Onufri’98. Permanent Instability", National Art Gallery, Tirana (curator Edi Muka)
- "Money/Nations", Shedhalle, Zurich (curator Marion von Osten) (C
- "Revolution/Terror", ISEA ’98, Manchester-Liverpool (curators Charles Esche, Eddie Berg, Iliyana Nedkova)
- "Revolting", Temporary Media Lab, Manchester (curator Micz Flor)
- "Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich (curator Iara Boubnova)
1997 - "Ostranenie ‘97", International Forum for Media Art, Dessau (curator Stephen Kovats)
- "Aller-Retour", 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro
- "Art in Landscape", 4th International Symposium, Wachtberg/Gars-am-Kamp, Austria (curator Dieter Graff)
- "Deep Europe", Hybrid Workspace July-Aug. 1997, Documenta X, Kassel
(curators Catherine David; Nancy Spector, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Klaus Biesenbach; Geert Lovink)
- 9th International Biennial for Graphic Art, Varna (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Contemporary Bulgarian Art", National Art Gallery, Sofia
- "Bulgarian Art Book", Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Milko Pavlov)
- "Is Europe just a word?", 2nd Biennial of Emerging Art, Siena-Pisa, (curator Valeria Bruni)
- "Ars Ex Natio. Made in BG", 4th Annual Show of the Soros Center for the Arts-Sofia, Old City of Plovdiv
- "Escaping Gravity - Video Positive '97", FACT, Liverpool (curators Charles Esche, Stephen Bode, Eddie Berg)
- "Beyond Belief...", Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (curator Laura J. Hoptman)
- "Papier/2", Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Munich
1996 - "Evidences. The Real Diversity", 3rd Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia
- "Bulgarian Glimpse Show", Association of Moscow Art Galleries and BCIC, Moscow (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova", 4th International Biennial, St. Petersburg (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Art in Landscape", 3rd International Symposium, Wachtberg/Gars-am-Kamp, Austria (curator Dieter Graff)
- "Beyond Belief...", Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
- "Chaotic - Hermetic", 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia (curator Milko Pavlov)
- "The Pictorial Image of the 1990-ies", National Palace of Culture, Sofia (curators S. Stefanov, R. Rouenov)
1995 - "Video/Hart", 2nd Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, National Archaeological Museum, Sofia (curator Kamen Balkanski)
- "Orient/ation", 4th International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (curator Rene Block)
- "Beyond the Borders", 1st International Biennial, Kwangju, South Korea (curator Anda Rotenberg, etc.)
- "Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- "Projects by...", National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "30 Grand Prix", 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
- "Week of Modern Art", Old Turkish Bathhouse, Plovdiv
1994 - "N-forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations", 1st Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Raiko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
- 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curators Iara Boubnova, Nelson Aguilar)
- "Instability - Progress", French Institute, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Le Nomadisme culturel. Artistes contemporains bulgares", East/West Festival, Die, France (curator Irina Genova)
- "Moisture - Plainair for Avant-garde art", in Arkoutino on the Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "The Artists of LETTRE INTERNATIONALE", LiteraturHaus, Wien
- "Art - Ritual, Ritual - Art", 3rd Multimedia Festival, Sofia (curator D. Nenova)
- "In Search for the Self-Reflection", Old City of Plovdiv (curator Iara Boubnova)
1993 - "Works on Paper", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova))
- "Kunst auf Zeit. Eine Recherche", Kunstamt Tiergarten, House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin (curator Paul Corazolla))
- "East - West", Art Hamburg '93 (with Hohenthal und Bergen Gallery), Hamburg)
- "Object - Bulgarian Style", 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva, Diana Popova))
- Art Frankfurt '93 (with Hohenthal und Bergen Gallery), Frankfurt
1992 - "Medical Check-up", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia)
- "From a Moment of Truth - Works on Paper from Bulgaria", Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth, USA
- "Hair from a Brush", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
1991 - "Negative Territories", Gallery Art in Action, Sofia (curator O. Dvorianov))

Performances:
2006 - "Billboard Heaven - Sofia and Images of the West", Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
- "Guiding Agents of Belief (Schadenfreude Guided Tours_03)", at "Belief", the 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2005 - "Pearl Guided Tours (Schadenfreude Guided Tours_02)", at 7th International Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
2004 - "Schadenfreude Guided Tour - Nedko Solakov". In - "A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey," Casino Luxembourg
2003 - "Schadenfreude Guided Tours". Daily, within "In the Gorges of the Balkans", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
1997 - "Deep Europe Visa Department" Within "Deep Europe", Hybrid Workspace, Documenta X, Kassel
- "Digital Plovdiv". Within "Ars Ex Natio. Made in BG", SCA-Sofia, Main Square of Old City of Plovdiv

Curating:
2005 - "Red Riviera Revisited", for Visual Seminar, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
2001 - "Small Talk", Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
- "VideoJune. Videoscreening 03", ZERO Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza, Italy (with Iara Boubnova)
1999 - Station Sofia. "Translocations. (new) media/art", Generali Foundation, Vienna (with Iara Boubnova)
1992 - 3rd International Istanbul Biennial - Bulgarian participation, Istanbul, Turkey
1991 - "Europe Unknown" - Bulgarian participation, Krakow, Poland
1990 - "End of Quotation", Club of the (eternally) Young Artists, Sofia State University Gallery, Sofia
- "Christo - 22 posters", National Palace of Culture, Sofia (with Philip Zidarov)
1989 - "Marry Christmas - Hanging Objects", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Universiada Hall, Sofia


Awards, Fellowships, Residencies:
2007 - Artist in Residence, "Backyard Residencies", KUDA, Novi Sad – Belgrade, Serbia
- Artist in Residence, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
2006 - Artist in Residence, quartier 21 in collaboration with Springerin Magazine, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2004 - Artist in Residence, Couvent des Recollets, Mairie de Paris/AFAA, Paris
2003 - Resident Fellow / Visual Seminar, Center for Advanced Study and Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
1997 - Artist in Residence, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA. Artslink Grant from the OSI, New York
1996-7 - Works in Wachtberg/Gars-am-Kamp, Austria with a grant from KulturKontakt - Wien, Austria
1992 - Works in Kunsthaus-Horn with a grant from KulturKontakt - Wien, Austria

Selected Bibliography:
Vitamin Ph, Phaidon Press, London 2006
http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/vitamin-ph-9780714846569
http://www.publishedart.com.au/bookshop.html?book_id=2359
Moulton, Aaron. "Go East. From Kosovo to Kaliningrad: part 2". Flash Art, # 251, Nov. - Dec. 2006, p.p. 62 – 65
http://www.flashartonline.it/OnWeb/GO%20EAST_parte2.htm (in Italian)
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Photo Essay: Billboard Heaven, 2005. Art Guide: Sofia. Spike Art Quarterly, # 11, March 2007
http://spikeart.at/index.php?option=com_magazine&func=show_easter_article&id=326&lang=en
Nedkova, Iliyana. Breaking Step. MAP magazine, issue 10/Summer 2007
www.mapmagazine.co.uk/issues ; http://www.art-research-communication.net/weblog/?p=82#more-82
The Balkan Trilogy. Ed. Rene Block, Marius Babias. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2007
Dorovska, Margarita. About InterSpace, Sofia, or: How it became that New Media matters in a broader socio-cultural context. VECTOR magazine.
Art and Culture in Context. Special Issue 03/2006. ("What is Bare Life?", Documenta 12 Magazines), Iasi, Romania; p.p. 9-12
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Who Are the Good Guys?", in "Reactionary Times", special issue of the newspaper of the platform Chto Delat? /
What s to be done?, # 15, February 2007 ("What is to be done?", Documenta 12 Magazines)
http://www.chtodelat.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=99999999
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. On Vacation (Artist’s Pages). VECTOR magazine. Art and Culture in Context. Special Issue 02/2006. ("Is Modernity our
Antiquity?", Documenta 12 Magazines), Iasi, Romania; p.p. 78-87
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Disfunctionality", special issue Moscow Art Magazine, # 61/62, Moscow 2006 ("Is Modernity our Antiquity?", Documenta 12
Magazines), p.p. 64-72
Akinsha, Konstantin. "Goodbye, Balkans!", read relations, no. 5, 09/2006, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany, Berlin 2006
KUBA. Journey against the current. T-B A 21, Vienna 2006. p. 156-157
ICA-Sofia. "Neither a White Cube nor a Black Box. History in Present Tense", 11th anniversary publication. ICA, Sofia 2006
East Art Map. Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe. Ed. IRWIN. An Afterall Book. Univ. of the Arts, London 2006.
Bauman, Sabine Ed., "Artistic Strategies of Success – A dialogue between the East and the West. Wolfenbuetteler Akademie-Texte. Band 2",
Wolfenbuettel, Germany 2005, pp. 47-69
Ditchev, Ivaylo. "The Delocalizing Gaze (Luchezar Boyadjiev reshuffling the city)", http://artefact.mi2.hr/_a04/lang_en/theory_ditchev_en.htm
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Billboard Heaven", 2005. http://artefact.mi2.hr/_a04/lang_en/art_boyadjiev_en.htm
Leap into the City. Chisinau, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven Scenes
from Europe. Ed. Katrin Klingan, Ines Kappert, relations / Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin 2006
http://www.deutschesfachbuch.de/info/detail.php?isbn=3832176934
The (un)Common Place. Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics in Europe. (publication of "Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe). Ed.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. Fondazione Adriano Olivetti. Rome 2005
The Manifesta Decade. Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe". Ed. Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena
Filipovic. A Roomade Book. MIT Press, Cambridge 2005. p. 294
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Notes on the Former House of the People, Bucharest", In: The National Museum of Contemporary Art. Bucharest 2004
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Communal and Private (and/or Public and personal)", Visual Seminar. Newsletter Aug – Dec 2004, ICA, Sofia
Arns, Inke/Broeckmann, Andreas. "Rise and Decline of the Syndicate. The End of an Imagined Community". In: "Who, if not We…", Artimo,
Amsterdam 2004
http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/Media/syndicate-end.html
Knoll, Hans. Und schon wieder ist es passiert". In: E.U. Positive. Kunst aus dem neuen Europa (Zeitung zur Ausstelung). Akademie der Kuenste.
Berlin 2004, p.p. 8-9
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Kreatives Sammeln – für Anfänger" (Creative Collecting – for beginners), Springerin mag., Vienna, Summer 2004,
p.p. 22-25
Greffrath, Mathias. Relations – or the public effect of art in Europe. Impressions of a project in progress". Germany - Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Newsletter, 3 / 2003
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Crawling Carpets. Contribution to conference "south…east…mediterranean…europe…", Platform Garanti Contemporary
Art Center, Istanbul, Dec. 2003 http://platformgaranti.blogspot.com/2004/01/luchezar-boyadjiev-south-east.html
Installation Art in the New Millennium. Ed. Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, and Michael Petry. Thames & Hudson, London 2003
Sofia as a Sight. Visual Seminar 1. Luchezar Boyadjiev / Hot City Visual. Resident Fellows Program. ICA-Sofia / CAS-Sofia / Revolver.
Sofia 2004
AICA/Manifesta 4. Art as a Social Construction? Ed. Ramon Tio Bellido. aica Press, Paris 2004
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "No more exchange! Art, please!". "Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession", New Media Center_
kuda.org, Novi Sad, Serbia 2004. http://www.transeuropicnic.org/e_event.htm / http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/node/551 . Also published in:
Kultur Austausch, 1 / 2004, IFA-Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany under the title "Ich war ein bulgarischer Kuenstler".
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Off the Record", Manifesta Journal, # 2 / 2004, Amsterdam/Ljubljana
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Dear Balkan…", ARTelier Mag., # 8 / 2003 (Balkan and Balkanness), Bucharest, Romania
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Visual Irregularities 1/2. ARCHIS Mag., # 6 / 2003, Amsterdam (flyer 15 / 53)
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "The Brigade of Stefan…", www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it/balcani/luchezar_boyadjiev_inglese.html
Dimova, Ljudmila. "I am thinking with my eyes. Interview with Luchezar Boyadjiev". LIK-BTA Mag., 1 / 2004, Sofia (in Bulgarian)
http://www.bta.bg/site/lik/new/03article.htm
Pejic, Bojana. "Dans les Gorges des Balkans". Artpress Mag., # 296, Decembre 2003, Paris (p.p. 12-14)
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Der Fehlschlag der "Schadenfreude Guided Tours"; "The Artist’ Riddle". Ein und Alle Mag., Kunsthalle Fridericianum,
# 11 Winter 2003/2004, Kassel, Germany
Fowkes, Maja and Reuden. Should I stay or should I go? GastARTbeiter". Radionica mag., January 2002, # 1. Zagreb, Croatia, p.p. 123-124
MoneyNations. Constructing the Border – Constructing East-West. Ed. Marion von Osten, Peter Spillmann. Vienna 2003, p.p. 122-125
Visual Seminar Newsletter. September / December 2003, ICA-Sofia and CAS-Sofia, Sofia
Visual Seminar Newsletter. April / August 2003, ICA-Sofia and CAS-Sofia, Sofia
Manifesta and us. Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia, Sofia 2003
Dragoeva, Boryana. Interview with Luchezar Boyadjiev. In: CATALOGUE. Defenseless and Bad. L Gallery, Moscow 2003
Snodgrass, Susan. Manifesta 4: Defining Europe? Art in America, January 2003, p.p. 43 – 47
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-96126343.html
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Manifesta 4 in 1, 2, 3. (in Docufesta, p.p. 34 – 108) Art-ist Mag., # 6, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey
Lovink, Geert. Uncanny Networks. Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia. MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 2003 (interviews with Luchezar
Boyadjiev, p.p. 58-73)
http://internautconsulting.com/articles-uncannynetworks.shtm
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10176
http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs148.html
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. The Balkanization of Alpa Europaea. In: Primary Documents. A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since
1950s. MOMA - New York, The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA 2002 (p.p. 304 – 311)
Hoffmann, Justin. In Search of Balkania. Mirror Austria. Praesens Mag., 1 / 2003, Budapest, p.p. 47-50
Fenz, Werner. "Listen to Boyadjiev’s Eyes". Lichtungen Mag., 91 / XXIII. Jg. / 2002, Graz, Austria (Artist’ Pages)
http://www.lichtungen.at/pages2002/Lichtungen91_jpg.htm#inhalt
http://www.lichtungen.at/pages2002/Lichtungen91_jpg.htm
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Artist(s) in Residence Program", 2000", In: Understanding the Balkans, Ed. Melentie Pandilovski, CAC, Skopje 2002
Milevska,Suzana. The World: Home to the Others. (The cosmopolitism debate and >eastern European< art). Springerin Mag., # 3, 2002,
Vienna
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Commuting Notes", Balkan Umbrella Mag. (Remont Gallery-Belgrade), No. 2, June 2002, p.p. 30-37
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. "Lunch for all…", Gagarin Mag. (Belgium), # 4/2002, p.p. 96 - 106
Boubnova, Iara. Aperto Sofia. Flash Art Int., Nov.-Dec. 2001, p.p. 53 - 55
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Chairs and Symbols. Der Standart, Vienna, 21 November 2001 (and 5 consecutive issues).
www.mip.at/de/projekte/37.html
Hofleitner, Johanna. Knoll Galerie. Luchezar Boyadjiev. Die Presse (Vienna), 2 Janner 2002, p. 21
FRESH CREAM. Phaidon Press. London 2000. p.p. 142 – 147
Luchezar Boyadjiev / Artist View. Profile - Statement and images of new and old works http://www.artmargins.com
Snodgrass, Susan. Altered Faiths. World Art mag., #20, 1999, p.p. 16-18
Snodgrass, Susan. Eastern Europe. Post-Communist Expressions. Art in America, June 2000, p.p. 47-51
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1248/6_88/62685209/print.jhtml
Vetrocq, Marcia. Eastern Europe. East is East. Art in America, June 2000, p. 48
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1248/6_88/62685209/print.jhtml
Broeckmann, Andreas. A Translocal Formation: V2_East, the Syndicate, Deep Europe. In: Junction Skopje. The 1997-1998 Edition; Syndicate
Publication Series 002; Ed. Inke Arns. SCCA - Skopje, Macedonia 1998. p.p.21-23
Grzinic, Marina. AV galerija - Luchezar Boyadjiev. Ars Vivendi, n. 31, Ljubljana 1997
Angelov, Angel. Comics and Temple. In: CATALOGUE "Ars ex Natio. Made in Bulgaria", Sofia 1999
Philips, Christopher. The View from Europe's Lower East Side - Report from Sofia. Art in America Mag., October 1997, p. 47-53
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n10_v85/ai_19897824/pg_2
Lovink, Geert. How to Turn Your Liability into an Asset - interview with Luchezar Boyadjiev at Hybrid Workspace, documenta X, Kassel. June
1997. In: CATALOGUE - Ostranenie 97, Dessau, 1997. http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-1-9707/msg00107.html
http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/Geert/Workspace/LUCHEZAR.INT
Lovink, Geert. Yes, we are worth exploiting! - interview with Luchezar Boyadjiev at the REVOLTING Temporary Media Lab,
Manchester/UK. Sept. 1, 1998. http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-1-9809/msg00096.html
Boyadjiev, Luchezar; Lovink, Geert. Culture Board for Bulgaria. A Body for Cultures in Ruin.
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-1-9809/msg00097.html Also in: N5M3 - Next 5 Minutes 3 Workbook, Amsterdam 1999,
p. 70 http://www.n5m.org
Roos, Renate. Motive der Christenheit. Luchezar Boyadjiev stellt in der Kolner Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen aus. Kolner Stadt- Anzeiger,
n. 158, Cologne 1997
El-Hassan, Roza. On Image Engine. In: CATALOGUE Zeitwenden. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1999, p.p. 86-87
Lehmann, Barbara. Schwarzenegger, Stallone und ich. Die Zeit, Nr. 14, Hamburg, 29 Marz 2001, p.39
Weiss, Rachel. The March of Paradigms. The New Art Examiner, December 1995
Weiss, Rachel. "The End of Quotation". Bulgaria's Moment of Truth. Afterimage. Vol. 20, n. 1, Summer, 1992. Visual Studies Workshop,
Rochester, NY, USA
Boubnova, Iara. Are we all real "polar bears" or not? In: Grzinic, M. Ed. Gallery (Dante) Marino Cettina. Future Perspectives. Ljubljana 2001
Boubnova, Iara. Post-What? Neo-How? For whom, where and when? Moscow Art Magazine, #22, 1998
http://services.worldnet.net/~coronado/martmag.htm . Also in: Culture of the Time of Transformation. The Cultural Identity of the
Central-Eastern Europe. 2 International Congress. WiS Publishers, Poznan 1999; in: Anachronia Mag., Hamburg, October 1999,
p.p. 21-27
Hoffman, Justin. Bulgariaavantgarde. Kunstforum, Bd. 141, Juli-September 1998, p. 404-405
Maier, Anne. "Bulgaria Avantgarde" in der Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Das Kunst-Bulletin, #5, Mai 1998, p. 43
Wiedemann, Christoph. Blockadebrecher vom Balkan. Ein Ausstellung junger bulgarischer Kunst in der Lothringer Strasse.
Suddeutsche Zeitung, 4 Mai, 1998
Palais de Tokyo. What is the artist’s role today? Paris, 2002. p.p. 117 (1)
Palais de Tokyo. What do You expect from an art institution in the 21st century? Paris, 2001. p.p. 75-76 (1)
Prott, Mark. Ausstelung "After The Wall" in Berlin. Suche nach der Identitat. EUROGAY webmagazine, http://www.eurogay.de/buch/1433.html
Lamm, April Elizabeth. Berlin Art Diary. After the Wall. Artnet.com, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviewes/lamm/lamm10-23-00.asp
Mengham, Rod. The Refugee Aesthetic?, TATE Bulletin, Issue 20 / Spring 2000, London
Bard, Perry. Videoarchaeology, International VideoArt Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria. Mag. Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural
Criticism, Rochester, NY; vol. 27, no. 4, Jan.-Feb. 2000, p. 6
Schafhausen, Nicolaus; Zeller, Ursula Ed. 1. Kongress zur Kunst und Kunstvermittlung in Mittel- und Osteuropa. 20.-22.11.1999 in Stuttgart.
ifa//documente/2/1999. Ifa Stuttgart und Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1999
Bydler, Charlotte. Strangely Normal. Digital art in the Istanbul Biennal ‘99. http://www.crac.org/htmls/bydlere.html
Beke, Laszlo. Conceptualist tendencies in Eastern European Art. In: CATALOGUE "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s –
1980s", The Queens Museum of Art, New York 1999, p.p. 41-51
Schmidt, Barbara. Innsbruck. Freizeit und Überleben. Springerin Mag., Vienna, July - August 1999, p. 64
Boubnova, Iara. Inventing a People. Flash Art International, n. 206, May-June 1999, p. 60
Milevska, Suzana. Onufri 98 – Permanent Instability. Springerin Mag., Vienna, March - June, 1999, p. 71
Boubnova, Iara. Instabilita Permanente. Tirana. Flash Art (Italian), # 214, Febrario-Marzo 1999
Von Osten, Marion. MoneyNations@access. K-Bulletin, # 1/1/1999, k3000-Zurich 1999
Stein, Judith. Out of the East. Art in America, April 1998, p. 51-54
Makela, Tapio. Tales from Deep Europe. SIKSI mag., n. 4, Winter 1997, p. 30
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Terror Pays. A Project for creative hacking, 1997 http://www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/crashhtml/mr/13.htm
Made in Bulgaria. Flash Art News, Flash Art, October 1997, p. 59
Liska, Pavel. Begegnungen mit der aktuellen Kunst in Mittel- und Osteuropa. In: CATALOGUE "Europa - Europa", Vol. III, Bonn, 1994
Dannatt, Adrian. Turkish Biennial - Istanbul'92. Flash Art. n. 16, 1993
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. Overlapping Identities. Moscow Art Magazine, #22, 1998
http://www.guelman.ru/xz/english/XX22/X2209.HTM
http://services.worldnet.net/~coronado/martmag.htm
http://www.moneynations.ch/topics/euroland/text/over.htm
Bojadshiev, Lytschesar. Zehn Wechselkurse die Bulgarien erschutteren. In: CATALOGUE "Menschenbilder. Foto- und Videokunst aus
Bulgarien", ifa-Galerie, Berlin, 1997
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. The Balkanization of Alpa Europea. In: CATALOGUE "3rd International Istanbul Biennial". Istanbul, 1992
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. The Lack of Identity as a Post-Post-Communist Originality. New Observations. n. 91, September-October, 1992.
New York, USA
Bojadshiev, Lytschesar. Kontextuelle Synchronisation uber Nedko Solakov. In: CATALOGUE "Nedko Solakov". ifa-Galerie, Berlin 1992
Boyadjiev, Luchezar. The Situation "Beyond" as a Situation "Behind". In: "Beyond Walls and Wars. Art, Politics and Multiculturalism".
Ed. by Kim Levin. New York 1992

SELECTED CATALOGUES:
CATALOGUE. "Plus ZWEI", MKM Museum Kueppersmuehle fuer Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany 2007
CATALOGUE. "PragueBiennale 3. Glocal and Outsiders: Connecting Cultures in Central Europe". Giancarlo Politi Editore – Flash Art. Milan 2007
CATALOGUE. "Footnotes. On Geopolitics, Markets and Amnesia". 2nd Moscow Biennial, Moscow 2007
DVD-ROM. "Images of the East. The relations project in text, images and audio" (video portrait of LB). relations and Kulturstiftung des Bundes,
Berlin 2006
CATALOGUE. "Important Announcement", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia 2006
CATALOGUE. "Belief", 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore 2006 (and short guide)
CATALOGUE. "Wild Capital", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany 2006
CATALOGUE. "Periferic 7. Focussing Iasi: Social Process", Vector, Iasi 2006
CATALOGUE. "Play Sofia", Springerin, Vienna 2006
CATALOGUE. "Crossing Borders", Berwick Film & Media Festival, Berwick upon Tweed, UK 2005
CATALOGUE. "Urban Realities: Focus Istanbul", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2005
CATALOGUE. "Sus les ponts, le long de la rivière...", Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2005
CATALOGUE. 51st La Biennale di Venezia. Vol. 3 Collateral Events/Participating Countries. Venice 2005
CATALOGUE. 7th International Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE 2005
CATALOGUE. "Cosmopolis 1. Microcosmos X Macrocosmoc", State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece 2004
CATALOGUE. "Love it or leave it", 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje-Kassel, 2004
CATALOGUE. "Privatizations. The Post-communist Condition", Kunstwerke/Revolver, Frankfurt 2006
CATALOGUE. "Privatisierungen. Zetgenoessische kunst aus Osteuropa", Kunstwerke, Berlin 2004
CATALOGUE. "Multiplication. A British Council touring exhibition of Artists’ Multiples", Sofia
CATALOGUE. "Sofia as a Sight. Visual Seminar 1. Resident Fellows Program". ICA-Sofia / CAS-Sofia / Revolver. Sofia 2004
CATALOGUE. "The Balkans – a Crossroad to the Future", Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy, 2004
CATALOGUE. "In den Schluchten des Balkan" (In the Gorges of the Balkans), Kassel /Germany, 2003
CATALOGUE. Phodar Biennial, City Art Gallery, Pleven, Bulgaria 2003
CATALOGUE. "Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans", The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg/Vienna 2003
CATALOGUE. "Export / Import", Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia 2003
CATALOGUE. "Vision. Image and Perception", Kunsthalle Budapest / C3, Budapest 2002
CATALOGUE. "Balkan Art ‘02", Novi Sad, Serbia, 2002
CATALOGUE. "Self-Portrait", Borusan Art Center, Istanbul 2002
CATALOGUE. "In Search of Balkania", Graz, Austria 2002
CATALOGUE. Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany, 2002
CATALOGUE. "Reconstructions", 4th International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, YU 2002
CATALOGUE. Graphica Creativa ’02, Jyvaeskylae, Finland 2002
CATALOGUE. "Konverzacija. A Short-Notice Show", MSUB, Belgrade 2001
CATALOGUE. Tirana Biennale 1, Giancarlo Politi Editore-Flash Art, Milan 2001
CATALOGUE. "Capital and Gender", Skopje 2001
CATALOGUE. "Hybrid Dwellings", Bialystok, Poland, 2001
CATALOGUE. CD-ROM. "Small Talk", MCA, Skopje 2002
CATALOGUE. Motel Je_evo. Zagreb, Croatia
CATALOGUE. Korrespondenzen. IFA Galerie. Berlin, 2001
CATALOGUE. Luchezar Boyadjiev. REMONT Gallery / Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade 2000
CATALOGUE. Leseraum, Secession, Vienna 2000
CATALOGUE. cooperativ. Kunstdialoge Ost-West. Stadthaus Ulm. Ulm 2000
CATALOGUE. La Folie "La Ville, le Jardin 2000, la Mémoire". Villa Medici. Rome 2000, p. 93
CD-ROM. "100 Tage keine Ausstellung. Information Reflexion Diskussion (100 days – no exhibition)", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
CD-ROM. L’Autre moitie de l’Europe. Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. 2000
CATALOGUE. Worthless (Invaluable). M’ARS mag., No. 3-4, 2000; Moderna Galerja, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000
CATALOGUE. Luchezar Boyadjiev. Reachable(s). CIX Gallery / Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Skopje 1999
CATALOGUE. @e-face.show. Ata Center for Contemporary Art. Sofia 1999
CATALOGUE. CD-ROM. PUBLI©DOMAIN. 3. Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie 21/11/99 – 02/01/00. Graz, Austria 1999
CATALOGUE. After the Wall. Vol. I and II. Moderna Museet. Stockholm 1999
CATALOGUE. MoneyNations@access - The Correspondent magazine. Shedhalle, Zurich, 1998, http://www.moneynations.ch
CATALOGUE. REVOLUTION'98. ISEA'98. FACT, Liverpool, 1998 (catalogue essay by Charles Esche, Lead Curator)
CATALOGUE. Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraftemessen II. (in German, English, Bulgarian). Salon Verlag, Sofia - Cologne, 1998
CATALOGUE. Ostranenie 97. The International Electronic Media Forum. Dessau, 1997
CATALOGUE. Video Positive 97: Escaping Gravity. FACT, Liverpool, 1997
CATALOGUE. 17 Instants from Spring Ins. Ltd. c/o Luchezar Boyadjiev. Sofia, 1996
CATALOGUE. Orient/Ation. 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 1995
CATALOGUE. Beyond the Borders. 1st International Biennial Kwangju '95. Kwangju, South Korea, 1995
CATALOGUE. Beyond Belief. Contemporary Art from East Central Europe (essays by Hoptman, Laura; Boubnova, Iaroslava; Beke, Laszlo,
etc.). Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago. Chicago, 1995
CATALOGUE. Luchezar Boyadjiev - Fortification of Faith. Sofia-Cologne, 1995
CATALOGUE. 22. Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, 1994
CATALOGUE. Instability - Progress. Bulgarian Participation in the 22nd Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil (essays by Boubnova, Iaroslava; Danailov,
Boris). Sofia, 1994
CATALOGUE. Kunst auf Zeit. Eine Recherche. Ed. 3. Kunstlerhaus Berlin. Ars Nicolai. Berlin, 1993, p. 20-21, p. 83-141
CATALOGUE. "Lytschesar Bojadshiev" (essays by Barsch, Barbara; Boubnova, Iaroslava). ifa-Galerie, Berlin 1992