Alexander Yuzev (b. 1977, Bulgaria) graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 2002. While rooted in this classical training, his practice expands far beyond the wall—into installation, mixed media, and experimental forms that open painting into space, into architecture, into the body of the viewer.
Yuzev’s work is marked by a conceptual depth that engages questions of identity, social structures, and the fragile contradictions of the human condition. His practice often resists the comfort of conventional perspectives, instead creating situations that invite introspection and dialogue. In his paintings as well as in his installations and sculptures, he employs meticulous attention to detail and a sensitivity to context, transforming surfaces and spaces into sites of reflection.
His approach to space is not merely formal, but critical, deploying scale, texture, and materiality to unsettle the boundaries between the private and the public, the sacred and the profane, the intimate and the monumental. Yuzev’s works are less objects than propositions, opening up possibilities for rethinking how art inhabits and interrogates the world.
By layering together traditional techniques with contemporary visual languages, Yuzev creates environments that are at once familiar and destabilizing. In doing so, he continues to shape a practice that is both deeply rooted in the legacy of mural painting and radically open to the urgencies of the present.
