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"Billboard Heaven" is Luchezar Boyadjiev’s contribution to Leap into the City, the book by "relations."

About Luchezar Boyadjiev:

Luchezar Boyadjiev was born in 1957 in Sofia, where he graduated from the National Academy of Arts in 1980. Among his most recent exhibitions are "Hot City Visual" (solo), a project for Visual Seminar (Sofia, 2003), "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna, 2003), "Roma in Sofia" (solo) at "The Balkans – a Crossroad to the Future" (Bologna, 2004), "Love it or leave it" (Cetinje Biennial, 2004), "Privatizations: The Post-communist Condition" (Berlin, 2004), and "Urban Realities: Focus Istanbul" (Berlin, 2005). He was a resident artist in New York (1993), at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (1997), and at Couvent des Récollets, Paris (2004). In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Prix for his participation at "Onufri’ 98," Tirana. Luchezar Boyadjiev is a founding member of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia. In 2003 he was a resident fellow and since 2004 has been a member of the expert board of the Visual Seminar multidisciplinary project investigating the urban environment of neocapitalism in Sofia within the framework of "relations."