Drawing is the root of my practice. I approach it as a way of thinking. Working across drawing, installation, performance, writing, and sound, I create situations in which drawing becomes spatial, social, and performative. A drawing can unfold into a temporary architecture, a publication, a score, or a collective action. I am interested in how images move beyond representation and become spaces that people can physically and emotionally inhabit.
Education
- 2019–22 MA Fine Arts, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
- 2016–19 BA Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
- 2011–15 BA Book and Printed Graphics, National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, BG
- 2011–15 BEd Theory and Practice of Art Education, National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, BG
- 2017 Exchange Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York City, US
- 2012 Erasmus Exchange Book and Printed Graphics, École Estienne, Paris, FR
- 2010 Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, CN
Teaching, Facilitation & Community Engagement
- 2024–25 Guest Teacher, Orientation Course, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
- 2024-now Drawing Workshop Facilitator, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, The Bookstore Foundation, NL
- 2023 Moderator, terra(t)rium, M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
- 2022 Moderator, Opening Academic Year, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019–22 Community Development Volunteer Arts and Culture, The Bookstore Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
- 2016–19 Member of the Participation Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Grants & Awards
- 2025 Project Grant, National Culture Fund, BG
- 2024 Artist Start Grant, Mondriaan Fund, NL
- 2023 Voucher Development, Mondriaan Fund, NL
Selected Residencies
- 2026 Direction Strong, Emprove Foundation, Beli Iskar, BG
Research-driven art residency with women survivors of gender-based violence
- 2019 M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
Interdisciplinary research and collaborative art production residency
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2026 Recycled Innocence, Little Bird Place Gallery, Sofia, BG
- 2025 Das Gift, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia, BG
- 2024 Family Portrait for Arantza, Bulteh Garden, Aguascalientes, MX
- 2024 Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Devouring Each Other, The Bookstore Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
- 2020 I Don’t Know Who You Are But I Miss You, Mertens Frames Project Space by Plan B, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Performances
- 2026 The Witches Road, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam, NL
- 2024 My Parents Are Both Good and Bad, Rijksmuseum Passage, Amsterdam, NL
- 2022 Venom, Thomaskerk, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 You Got To Burn To Shine, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
- 2019 Holy Disorders, Domkerk, Utrecht, NL
- 2018 A Puppet Opera, Part 2, Korzo Theatre, The Hague, NL
- 2018 A Puppet Opera, Part 1, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam, NL
- 2018 Scripted Party, M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
- 2018 Balcony Scene, The Warehouse, Amsterdam, NL
- 2017 Clones, Conservatory of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
- 2017 Free Apples, Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York City, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025 Direction Strong, Human Rights Forum, Sofia, BG
- 2025 Artist on Focus, Sofia Art Fair, Sofia, BG
- 2025 Tekentuin, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, NL
- 2025 Muze van Zuid, Willem de Zwijgerkerk, Amsterdam, NL
- 2025 Nieuwelingen, Van Eesteren Museum, Amsterdam, NL
- 2025 Prospects 2025, Art Rotterdam, NL
- 2024 CHAOS + o r d e - n i n g, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL
- 2024 With Love Nieuw-West, DAY Collective, Amsterdam, NL
- 2023 Boring Festival, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL
- 2023 Living Room, Marwan, Amsterdam, NL
- 2022 Sandberg Institute Graduation Show, diez gallery, Amsterdam, NL
- 2022 The Resident Broadcast, W139, Amsterdam, NL
- 2022 Small Thing, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL
- 2021 I Really Wanna Be With You, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
- 2020 Dust is Us, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 Pleinkamer Opening, The Bookstore Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 The Common Inn, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
- 2019 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Publications
- 2025 Only The Sun Comes Up For Free (artistic research)
Published with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Sofia
Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia, ISBN 978-619-04-0516-0
- 2022 A Muscular Little Red Riding Hood Collecting Heavy Stones (artistic research), Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 Traces (artist's book), self-published, self-published, limited edition, Amsterdam, NL
- 2011 The Character of the Dream (artist’s book, with Snejina Bisserova and Edvin Sugarev), hand-printed, limited edition, Sofia, BG
Selected Media Coverage
- 2026 Recycled Innocence by Boyan Montero
Interview by Dani Lavova, Bulgarian National Television (BNT), BG
- 2026 Recycling as Emotional and Poetic Practice
Interview by Biserka Gramatikova, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), BG
- 2025 Das Gift by Boyan Montero
Interview by Dani Lavova, Bulgarian National Television (BNT), BG
- 2025 The Gift as Love, Duty, or Poison
Interview by Yana Punkina, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), BG
- 2025 The Child in Me
Conversation with Radoslav Chichev, Култура, BG
- 2025 The Artist Is Speaking, Episode 15
Conversation with Margarita Dorovska and Ilina Peneva, Говори артистът, BG
- 2025 Only The Sun Comes Up For Free
Article by Irina Karakhehayova, Литературен Вестник, Issue 31, BG
- 2025 Das Gift in REVIEW 2025
Article by Vasil Vladimirov, Journal for Social Vision, BG
