Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia. For a time she devoted herself to painting and stage design. It was about 1995 that she appeared on the alternative art scene with sculptures and installations of hand-made paper. She is concerned with the various extreme states regarding both space and time. Central to some of her work is the preoccupation with the incorporation of the environment or the use of non-durable materials such as soap, ice, etc.

Education: 1979-1984 - National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

Professional practice: 1988-1990 - Art director at the Bulgarian National Television 1992 - Stage designer for Dialog Theater 1990 - Working freelance - actions, installations, objects, applied graphics

Solo exhibitions: 2005 - THE LIONS OF SOFIA, Goethe Institut, Sofia 2004 - VANITAS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan - VANITAS, Sofia Art Gallery 2002 - IMAGES OF A TRANSFORMATION, Sofia Art Gallery 2001 - SWEET DREAMS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia 2000 - ENDLESS FAIRYTALE, Book Art Museum, Lods, Poland 1999 - SOAPY REFLECTIONS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia 1998 - HOLLOWS OF METAL, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia - EXPERIMENTS TO MEASURE TIME, TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria 1997 - VARIANTS, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia - SEA OF HOPE, National Theater, Sofia 1996 - ETERNAL CLOISTERS FOR TRANSIENT HEARTS, Art 36 Gallery, Sofia - REST, Autumn Exhibitions, Old Town, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 1995 - IN BETWEEN, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia

Selected group exhibitions: 2005 - DONUMENTA, Curator Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Regensburg, Germany - FREEZE, Centre for Contemporary Art The Old Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - EN DIRECT DE BULGARIE, Association Espace Gibert, Lezignan-Corbieres, France - PHANTOM, FABS, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, Borne Soulinovo, Poland 2004 - MULTIPLICATION, Sofia Art Gallery - THE SPHINX WILL DEVOUR YOU, Curator Baeral Madra, Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul - No Volume, FABS, Book Art Museum, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, Lods, Poland - THE GLOBAL AND THE MAN, Curator Galia Dimitrova, Sfumato Theatre, Sofia - IN THE CONTEXT OF OURS OWN , Art Gallery Dimitrovgrad, Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria - FOUR ROOMS, ADS Gallery, Sofia - THE LANDSKAPE, New Ground, Curator Maria Vassileva, Shipka 6 gallery, Sofia - BULGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION, Sofia Art Gallery - FINE ART COLLECTION, Embassy of the US in Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery 2003 - No Volume, FABS, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, National Palace of Art, Lvov, Ukraina - Beauty and the East, Janco Dada Museum, Artist’s village Ein Hod, Israel - WHITE, MALE, STRAIGHT PROJECT, Nich, Serbia - EXPORT-IMPORT, Curator Maria Vassileva, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia 2002 - TRANSPARENCY, Centre for Contemporary Art The Old Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - WhiteMaleStraight project, Curator Ventsislav Zankov, Sofia - TERRESTRIALS, FABS, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, The former Norblin factory - Department of Museum of Technology, Warsaw - International Meeting of Pfotography, Centre for Contemporary Art The Old Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - Girls and the sea, Curator Maria Vassileva, Bulart Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria 2001 - CHANGE OF PLACES, Curator Maria Vassileva, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia - SHOP - ART (WOMEN AT THE MARKET-PLACE), Curator Maria Vassileva, St. Sofia Underpass, Sofia - DON’T LOOK AT ME IN THAT VOICE, Shipka 6 gallery, Sofia - SPIRIT AND MATTER, II-nd Festival of Visual Arts, „August in Art“, Georgi Velchev Museum, Varna, Bulgaria 2000 - BULGARIA, NY, Women Artists Collaborate, Elisabet Foundation for the Art, New York City - ANTESOUND, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland - II International ARTISTIC BOOK Triennial VILNIUS’00, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania - CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN ART, Archaeology Museum, Varna, Bulgaria - CONTEMPORARY ART, City Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria - THE END OF THE STORY, National Art Gallery - National Palace of Culture, Sofia - THE STORY CONTINUES, Solers Gallery, Sofia - MIRROR, MIRROR, Curator Maria Vassileva, City Gallery, Russe, Bulgaria - ON THE OTHER HAND..., Curator Dessislava Dimova, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia - SUBJECTS AND SHADOWS, Curator Maria Vassileva, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

The artist is present in sections Object Performance Photography

VANITAS