Nikola Stoyanov

Late-night LiveLeak visions of a twenty-four-hour news cycle circulate at the speed of now.

“Black Market” is, first and foremost, a response to the territory in which it takes shape.

Xx-63 is the second major production by Trevoga Collective, developed by choreographer and artistic director Neda Ruzheva together with co-director and dramaturg Nikola Stoyanov.

In Petro-drift (2025), the Black Sea becomes both witness and archive—an ancient body absorbing the toxic residues of contemporary geopolitics and petro-capitalist collapse.

Troll noun (in folklore): an ugly creature depicted as a giant or dwarf. verb (fishing): a fisherman luring fish by pulling bait behind a boat in motion. verb (on the internet): to provoke (other) people online by deliberately posting inflammatory, inappr…

“Black Fax off the Hook” is an insurrectionary transmission—a cultural guerrilla operation leveraging the destructive power of spam.

The second showing of the now upgraded exhibition took place in Sofia.

You’ll Understand when the Time Comes emerged as an urban intervention and installation, interrogating the boundaries of art, repair, and decay it navigated the murky territory between spontaneous urban repair and conspiratorial paranoia.

This is a diary of fevers, a cut-up traversing people and time, unfolding across the labyrinthine tapestry of personal histories.

“Postcards and Contraband” begins by examining a work archive of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Directorate for Combating Drug Trafficking from 1975-1985.

Nature Morte is a multimedia project that plants the philosophical question firmly into the ground - on a part of the country’s highly restricted critical infrastructure.

Latent space is where the gaze of artificial intelligence alone draws the picturesque horizon, delving into the hidden rooms of secret research centers, intelligence organizations, and classified databases.

“RE:PROCESS” exhibits photographs of everyday urban objects.

The city - transfigured into a gray zone emptied of people, of lights, immersed under water or discarded in the wild cosmos, folded beyond practicality, it represents a capsule emptied of its nature, emptied of its structures of power, emptied of its soci…

The exhibition is nomadic in nature, led by the Black Sea, which is without harbour and without shore, far from the clear squawk of a sea bird.

The drive to capture the city as an affective totality was what led to the inception of this project.

“Humor is the politeness of despair” in a meditaion on how the demonically possed inhrent strange channel switching powers and compulsions.

Music for a New Night Life deals with Mark Fishers concept of hauntology and lost futures.