Journal for Social Vision
Interviews and Conversations
"What's Moving: A conversation between Lavinia Lanner and Viktoria Draganova", at artist cat. "Lavinia Lanner: Only Draw When You Are Tired", 2024 (EN)
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"Curator's Table with Viktoria Draganova", published at Easttopics, 06/2023 (EN)
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"Viktoria Draganova and Dessislava Dimova: Talking About an Institution", 02/2023, a conversation at Various Artists (EN)
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"What Will Manifesta 14 Bring to the Balkans?", a round table discussion published at frieze 08/2022(EN)
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An interview with Viktoria Draganova for Goethe-Institute, 05/2020 (BG /DE)
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Cultural politics in times of Covid, an interview with Viktoria Draganova and Vladiya Mihaylova, for Capital Light 04/2020 (BG)
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“Експериментът и новото кураторско училище на Swimming Pool” (Тhe experiment with the new curatorial school at Swimming Pool), interview for egoist.bg 12/2018 (BG)
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Говори ми за любов (Talk to me about love), an interview with Viktoria Draganova for viewsofia.com 03/2017 (BG)
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Texts
"Art and City – A Conversation to come", 05/2024, essay at Journal for Social Vision (BG/EN)
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"Instituting as a Box, a Forest, a Swimming Pool", 10/2020, essay at The Solitude Blog (EN/BG)
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"The Pool Within", essay at Souvenir Summer Camp, ed. by Paola Lucente for Spazio Murat, 08/2019
“New Education at der Periphery”, essay at This Is Badland, 5/2018 (EN)
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“Вкъщи, едно друго небе” (At Home, Another Sky), essay аt СВЕМА Issue 3, 05/2018 (BG)
“Radical Poetics”, essay in exhib. cat. “Shifting Layers – Young Art in the Museum” at Sofia City Art Gallery, 03/2018 (BG/EN) forthcoming
Jan De Cock, essay for PEACE at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, 2017 (EN/DE)
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“imagine, so close”, essay as part of series of publications to “States of Flux”, 10/2016 (DE, transl. in EN/BG)
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“Jo Baer: Radical Figurations”, essay in: In Terms of Painting, ed. by Eva Ehninger and Antje Krause-Wahl, Berlin 2016 (EN)
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“After the explosion“, essay in exhib. cat. “Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy: Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model”, Portikus, Frankfurt 2015 (EN)
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“Love at the Distance”, essay for exhib. cat. „Yves Scherer. Closer“, Berlin 2015 (EN)
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“Von den Dingen“, essay in exhib. cat. „Katharina Schilling. Taking Silk“, Düsseldorf 2014 (DE and ENG)
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„The Best is Yet to Come”, cuarotiral text & introduction in exhib. cat. „East of Best. Young Bulgarian Contemporary Art, ROODKAPJE ROTTTERDAM, Rotterdam”, Sofia 2011, p. 10-13 (EN)
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Reviews
Neil Beloufa, Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, review at Frieze 11/2018 (EN)
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Candice Lin, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, review at Frieze 3/2018 (EN)
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“Radical Poetics”, conversations with artists within the exhibition “Shifting Layers – Young Art in the Museum”, published at Literaturen vestnik, Issue 10, 14-20/03/2018 and Issue 12, 28/03 – 03/04/2018 (BG)
Krassimir Terziev / Daniel Kötter, ICA & Goethe-Institute Sofia, review at Springerin 2/2017 (DE)
“Hybrid Spaces”, Nida Art Colony, Nida (LI), review on echogonewrong, 08/2016 (EN)
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Shahryar Nashat, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, review in: Flash Art International Online, 06/2016, (EN) read here
“What we know”, Roberta, Frankfurt am Main, review in: frieze, Issue 173, 09/2015 (EN)
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Interview with Florian Auer, in: abccontemporary.com, 09/2015 (EN)
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El Hadji Sy, Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt am Main, review in: frieze d/e 2/2015, (DE and EN)
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Mayer Vaisman, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, review in: Mousse Magazine No. 48, 04/2015 (EN)
Tobias Donat, Phillip Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, review in: Kubaparis, 20/02/2015, (DE)
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“Pakui Hardware „Shapeshifter, Heartbreaker“”, Jenifer Nails, Frankfurt am Main, review in: KubaParis, 24/11/2014, (DE)
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Korakrit Arunanondchai und Ed Fornieles, Frieze Art Fair and Chisenhale Gallery, London, review in: KubaParis, 31/10/2014, (DE)
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“Simon Denny, New Management”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, review in: KubaParis, 01/09/2014, (DE)
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“Wieviel Vergangenheit steckt in einer Minute? Erwin Wurm und der Wiener Aktionismus”, in: Städelblog, (DE)
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„Bild des Monats: Cosima von Bonins NOTHING # 2 (Chateau Fatigue)”, in Städelblog, 2013 (DE)
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Catalogue contributions
“Manzoni. Die Linie”, essay in exhib. cat. „Piero Manzoni, Wenn Körper Kunst werden”, Frankfurt 2013 (DE and EN)
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„Beate Gütschow”, „Peter Roehr”, „Wolfgang Tillmans”, short texts in exhib. cat. „Malerei in Fotografie. Strategien der Aneignung”, Heidelberg and Berlin 2012, p. 64-67, 98-100, 130-133, (DE)
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Short texts on Antonia Angelova, Rada Boukova, Stefania Batoeva, Velizar Dimchev, Stanimir Genov, Kaloyan Iliev-Kokimoto, Vikenti Komitski, Kiril Kuzmanov, Nikola Mihov, Miná Minov, Lora Rounevska, Samuil Stoyanov, Mariana Tantcheva, Stela Vasileva, in exhib. cat. „East of Best. Young Bulgarian Contemporary Art, ROODKAPJE ROTTTERDAM, Rotterdam”, Sofia 2011 (EN)
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Legal theory and history
“Recht durch Transfer: Der Anfang des bulgarischen Rechtssystems 1878-1920“, dissertation, Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt 2015 (DE)
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„Die Inszenierung des Rechts/ Law mise en scène du droit/ Law on Stage”, ed. with
Stefan Kroll, Ulrike Meyer and Helmut Landerer, Munich 2011 (EN)
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