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  • About
  • Exhibitions
    solo (s) / collab (c)
    2026
    • (c) The things we saw together
    • (c) The Naphthalene Tapes
    • (c) Xx-63
    2025
    • (c) Even trolls sleep sometimes
    • (c) Petro-Drift
    2024
    • (c) Black Fax off the Hook
    • (s) Postcards and Contraband
    • (c) You’ll understand when the time comes
    2023
    • (c) Fever Diary
    • (c) Postcards and Contraband
    2023 — 2019
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Selected exhibitions

The things we saw together (2026), video installation by Nikola Stoyanov at Sofia City Art Gallery | Nikola Stoyanov

The things we saw together

Sofia City Art Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
28.07 — 30.08.2026

The things we saw together is a video installation by Nikola Stoyanov about online disaster imagery, mediated spectatorship and collective memory.

The Naphthalene Tapes (2026), video installation by Nikola Stoyanov at PUNTA Gallery, Sofia | Nikola Stoyanov

The Naphthalene Tapes

PUNTA Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
10.06 — 11.07.2026

The Naphthalene Tapes is a post-fictional video installation by Nikola Stoyanov based on a painting attributed to Jackson Pollock found in Bulgaria.

Xx-63 (2025), multidisciplinary performance by Trevoga Collective at Julidans, Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam | Nikola Stoyanov

Xx-63

Theater Bellevue
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12.07 — 13.07.2025

Xx-63 is a multidisciplinary performance by Trevoga, developed by Neda Ruzheva and Nikola Stoyanov, exploring desire, digital excess and escapism.

Petro-Drift | Nikola Stoyanov

Petro-Drift

HOST Gallery, Sofia
03.05 — 30.05.2025

Single-channel video installation about the pollution of the Black Sea after the oil spill in the Kerch Strait.

Even trolls sleep sometimes | Nikola Stoyanov

Even trolls sleep sometimes

Goethe-Institut
Sofia
25.03 — 30.04.2025

“Even trolls sleep sometimes” is an art piece consisting of over 288:05:65 hours of chat archives from the Russian Troll Foundation online community Telegram channel. This period captures a time when personal information from a coordinated attack on the author (doxing).

Black Fax off the Hook | Nikola Stoyanov

Black Fax off the Hook

Doza gallery, Sofia. Part of SPorno festival 'THE DEVIANTS'
28.05 — 01.06.2024

An insurrectionary installation at Doza: a hacked fax machine endlessly prints AI-made gothic fan-fiction, skewering media overload and Bulgarian populism.

You’ll understand when the time comes | Nikola Stoyanov

You’ll understand when the time comes

Undisclosed location
11.04 — 12.05.2024

A double of a constant corpse correction in motion. From the impromptu line of conspiratorial paranoia to everyday self-relience, of patches, repairs of repairs, endless beginnings and dead-end continuations.

Fever Diary | Nikola Stoyanov

Fever Diary

KO-OP Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
15.11 — 26.11.2023

This zine is an exploration of the human experience with fever dreams, weaving personal narratives collected from diverse individuals.

Postcards and Contraband | Nikola Stoyanov

Postcards and Contraband

ReBonkers, Varna
07.09 — 21.09.2023

An examining a work archive of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Directorate for Combating Drug Trafficking from 1975-1985.

Grey Zone/Dispositive | Nikola Stoyanov

Grey Zone/Dispositive

The Matrix, Sofia
28.04 — 29.04.2022

Gray Zone Dispositive is a massive photogrammetry recreatingthe urban space of Varna.

Humor is the politeness of despair | Nikola Stoyanov

Humor is the politeness of despair

“ARTWAVE”, Varna
08.06 — 09.07.2019

A core-core style video collage investigating the specifics of commercial video codec degradation as well as that of memmory.