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    solo (s) / collab (c)
    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
    • (s) Nature Morte
    2022
    • (c) Humor is the politeness of despair
    • (s) Latent Space
    • (s) Re:Process
    • (c) Grey Zone/Dispositive
    2021
    • (s) I-Ixa
    • (s) In:Process
    2019
    • (s) Music for a New Night Life
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selected exhibitions

Postcards and Contraband | Nikola Stoyanov

Postcards and Contraband

Charta Gallery, Posta Space
Sofia, Bulgaria
April 11 — May 12, 2024

The exhibition Postcards and Contraband by artist Nikola Stoyanov is an investigation of a work archive of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Directorate for Combating Drug Trafficking from 1975-1985.

Nature Morte | Nikola Stoyanov

Nature Morte

Goethe-Institut, Sofia
June 22 — July 30, 2023

The exhibition Nature Morte by artist Nikola Stoyanov is a multimedia project dealing with the concept of geotrauma in the context of the Martisa Mining complex.

Latent Space | Nikola Stoyanov

Latent Space

Doza Gallery, Sofia
September 8 — September 21, 2022

Latent Space is where the gaze of artificial intelligence itself draws a picturesque horizon, delving into the hidden rooms of secret research facilities, investigative organizations, classified databases.

Re:Process | Nikola Stoyanov

Re:Process

Arhis Gallery, Varna
May 21 — June 5, 2022

Photographs of everyday urban objects. In the construction and deconstruction traces can be found upon the urban surface, a peculiar language, through which different modalities of appearance are formed and unfolded.

I-Ixa | Nikola Stoyanov

I-Ixa

“Etude„ gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
October 18 — October 30, 2021

The exhibition is nomadic in nature, led by the black sea, which is landlocked and shoreless, far from the clear croak of the sea bird.

In:Process | Nikola Stoyanov

In:Process

KO-OP Gallery
Sofia, Bulgaria
January 6 — January 16, 2021

The drive to capture the city as an affective totality

Music for a New Night Life | Nikola Stoyanov

Music for a New Night Life

Talyan Art Fest, Varna
June 8 — July 9, 2019

A cymatic matrix of a city in flux, of its dreams and nightmares and finally of its reality filled with nostalgia.