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Boyadjiev Luchezar
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1957 born in Sofia, Bulgaria
1975-80 National Art Academy, Sofia
1980 M.A. in Art History and Theory
1992 Kunsthaus-Horn (KulturKontakt – Wien)
1993 New York (The Getty Grant Program), Santa Monica, CA, USA; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA (Artslink grant from The Open Society Institute), New York.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1992 Festigung des Glaubens – installations, IFA Galerie, Berlin, D, catalogue
Crucifixion for the Fisherman – 150 drawings, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia
1993 Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Munchen, Germany, catalogue
Luchezar Boyadjiev (solo stand with Hohenthal und Bergen Gallery), KUNSTRAI '93, Amsterdam, NL, catalogue
1994 The Fountain of Europe: Doubletake, Center for Curatorial Studies – Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
1995 The Fountain of Europe, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
Astrologic, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
1997 I Love Jesus – Souvenir Shop, former Bulgarian Embassy, Cetinje, Montenegro, YU
Cover Version 2, Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Koln, D
Cover Version 1, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
Up and Down. Back and Forth, 68 Hope Street Gallery, VP'97, Liverpool, UK
Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest (a project with Roza El-Hassan)
1998 Small Talk 1, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
Revolution for All, Holden Gallery, MMU, Manchester, UK (ISEA'98)
1999 Reachable(s), CIX Gallery, Skopje
@e-face.show, Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
In/Out…, in again, at the Swiss Embassy Residence, Sofia
What if…, TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2000 Apocalypse, Art Media Center "TV Gallery", Moscow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1989 11.11.('89), Union of Bulgarian Artists, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
1990 End of Quotation, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia State University Gallery, Sofia
Moderate Avant-garde within the Framework of Tradition, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia
1991 Happy-krai (end), Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia
Kaimak (cream) – art, ten art critics' selection of young artists, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia
1992 Medical Check-up, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia
From a Moment of Truth – Works on Paper from Bulgaria, Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, USA, catalogue
1993 Works on Paper, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
Object – Bulgarian Style, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia
Kunst auf Zeit. Eine Recherche, Kunstamt Tiergarten,
House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany, catalogue
1994 N-forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations, 1st Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Raiko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, catalogue
22nd Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, catalogue
Instability – Progress, French Institute, Sofia, catalogue
In Search for the Self-Reflection, Old City of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, catalogue
1995 Video/Hart, 2nd Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, National Archaeological Museum, Sofia, catalogue
Orient/ation, 4th International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, catalogue
Beyond the Borders, 1st International Biennial, Kwangju, South Korea, catalogue
Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, catalogue
1996 Evidences. The Real Diversity, 3rd Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia, catalogue
Bulgarian Glimpse Show, Association of Moscow Art Galleries and BCIC, Moscow, catalogue
Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova, 4th International Biennial, St. Petersburg, Russia, catalogue
Beyond Belief..., Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1997 Ostranenie '97, International Forum for Media Art, Dessau, Germany, catalogue
Nova Icona – Aller-Retour, 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, YU, catalogue
Deep Europe, Hybrid Workspace, documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Is Europe Just a Word?, 2nd Biennial of Emerging Art, Siena-Pisa, Italy, catalogue
Ars Ex Natio. Made in BG, 4th Annual Show of the Soros Center for the Arts-Sofia, Old City of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, catalogue
Escaping Gravity – Video Positive '97, FACT, Liverpool, UK, catalogue
Beyond Belief..., Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1999 TEMP, a Temporary Media Lab, Kiasma Contemporary Arts Museum, Helsinki
Video Archaeology, Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
Always Already Apocalypse, The Institute for Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Skopje; Yildiz Sabanci Kultur Merkezi at the 6th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, catalogue
Communication Front, Old Turkish Bathhouse, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Leisure and Survival, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Translocations. (new) media/art, Generali Foundation, Vienna [http://www.translocation.at] Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; ArtExpo Foundation, Bucharest; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, catalogue
L'Autre moitie de l'Europe. Social Reality / Existence / Politics, Galerie nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris
After the Wall: Art and culture in post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
E-MAIL
luchezb@cblink.net
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