Nedko Solakov
CURRICULUM
Born in Cherven Briag, Bulgaria, in 1957.
Lives and works in Sofia.
Selected One Person Exhibitions
2009
- "Nedko Solakov", Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
- "Just Drawings (with and without stories)", Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Emotions", Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt (C)
- "The Freedom of Speech (or how to argue properly)", Castello di Rivoli, Turin (C)
- "Some Newly-Born Utopias", Art Connexion, Lille (C)
- "Emotions", Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen; Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt (C)
2008
- "Emotions", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (C), Germany
- "A Turnover for Many and a Bit of Luck for One", Whitechapel Street Project, Whitechapel, London (C), England
2007
- “Walls & Floor (without the ceiling)”, Kunstforum, Vienna (with Dan Perjovschi) (C)*
- “A Group Show,” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia*
- “Wrong Material,” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano*
- “A Life (Black & White),” Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich (C)
- “New Noah’s Ark, Stupidity & The Wave,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2006
- “Earlier Works,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Zurich; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (C)
- “Confidentiality Guaranteed,” with Sint-Lukasgalerij at Art Brussels, Brussels
- “Back to Back,” Lombard-Freid Projects, New York (with Dan Perjovschi)*
2005
- “Twelve Semipaintings Done in a Very Fast Way,” Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- “Leftovers,” Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (C)
- “Dead-Lock Stories,” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
- “Garbage People,” Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
2004
- “A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey,” O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (C)
- “Drawings,“ Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome (with Massimo Bartolini)
- “Rivals,” Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
- “A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey,” Rooseum Center for ontemporary Art, Malmö (C)
- “A High Level Public Art Project with a Catalogue,” Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (C)
2003
- “A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey,” Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (C)
- “Advertisement,” Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussels (C)
- “Alien Auras,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (C)
- “Negotiations,” Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
- “Seaweeds,” Base, Florence (with Slava Nakovska)
- “Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts,” Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (C)
- “Mirrors,” Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
2002
- “A High Level Show with a Catalogue,” Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (C)
- “Mess,” Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam (C)
- “Nature People,” Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (C)
- “Studies for Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- “Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts,” Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Ulmer Museum, Ulm (C)
- “20.10.2001,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2001
- “Chat,” The Royal Academy Sculpture Hall / IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm (C)
- “Vitiligo People,” Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
- “Marginalia,” Modulo Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon
- “A (not so) White Cube,” P.S.1 Special Projects Program, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
- “Anywhere,” Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
2000
- “Stories 1,” Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (C)
- “Squared Baroque - Baroqued Square,” Ikonen-Museum / Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (C)
1999
- “…….” #2, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
- “Announcement,” as the official participation of Bulgaria, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (C)
- “…….”, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia (C)
1998 - “A Christmas Show,” Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
- “Silly,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- “Sea Show,” Ted Gallery, Varna (with Slava Nakovska)
- “A Quiz,” De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
- “Thirteen (maybe),” Musee Nationale d’Historie et d’Art, Luxembourg (C)
1997
- “Yellow,” Galerija Anonimus, Ljubljana
- “The Paranoid Man,” Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- “The Absent-Minded Man,” FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
- “Wars,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- “Somewhere (under the tree),” Deitch Projects, New York
- “By the way,” Art Connexion, Lille (C)
1996
- “Semipoor-Semirich,” The Swiss Ambassador’s residence, Sofia
- “Desires,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin (C)
- “Doodles,” National Museum of Fine Arts’ mirrors, Sofia
1995
- “To Touch the Antiquity,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “Mr. Curator, please....,” Studio I, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (C)
1994
- “The Superstitious Man,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- “Documentation,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “The Collector of Art,” Ludwig Museum, Budapest (C)
- “The Superstitious Man,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (C)
- “Notes,” National Palace of Culture’s toilets, Sofia
- “Bulgarian-American Souvenirs,” American Center, Sofia
1993
- “Their Mythological Highnesses,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “Another World,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “Les aventures (et les visions) de Francois de La Bergeron en terre Bulgare,” French Institute, Sofia
- “4 (maybe 5) Room Installations,” Elemag 2D Gallery, Sofia
- Lessedra Gallery, Sofia (with Mitjo Solakov)
- “Good Luck,” Medizinhistorisches Museum, Zurich
1992
- “Just Imagine,” BINZ 39/Artest, Zurich
- “Neue Arche Noah,” ifa Galerie, Berlin (C)
- “Nine Objects,” National Museum of History, Sofia
- “7 Paintings, 13 Reliquaries, 1 Installation (New Noah’s Ark),” National Palace of Culture, Sofia
1990
- “Objects,” AIA Gallery, Bourgas, BG
1988
- “Autumn Exhibitions,” Plovdiv, BG (C)
- Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
1987
- Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen am Neckar
1985
- The City Square Gallery, Varna, BG
1983
- “Autumn Exhibitions,” Plovdiv, BG
1982
- Rakovski 108 Gallery, Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
- "El Patio de mi Casa", Arte Contemporaneo en 16 Patios de Còrdoba, Cordoba, Spain
- "Che fare? Ciclo performance", Castello Rivoli, Torino
- "Plug In XL", Stedeljik Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (curator Charles Esche) (C)
- "For the Use of Those Who See", Kunstwerke, Berlin (curator Susanne Pfeffer) (C)
- "1989. The End of History or Beginning of the Future", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curators Gerald Matt, Catherine Hug) (C)
- "Making of Art", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (curator Martina Weinhart) (C)
- "A Pair of Left Shoes", Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum (curator Tihomir Milovac) (C)
- "Liquid Frontiers", Tri Postal / lille3000, Lille (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)
2008
- "Curator Curator #2: What is My Name?", HISK, Ghent (curator Lorenzo Bruni)
- "Lots of Things like this", Apexart, New York, Usa
- "God & Goods", Villa Manini Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
- "Prospekt.1 New Orleans", New Orleans (curator Dan Cameron) (C)
- "Unreliable Witness", Tramway, Glasgow (curator Lorraine Wilson) (C)
- "Anatomie, les peaux du dessin - collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain", FRAC Picardie, Amiens (curator Yves Lecointre) (C)
- "Aktuelle Szene Bulgarien, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus", Koblenz (curator Beate Reifenscheid) (C)
- "Average", Kunsthaus Langenthal (curator Fanni Fetzer) (C)
- "U-TURN" Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, various venues, Copenhagen (curators committee) (C)
- "No Leftovers", Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (curators committee) (C)
- "The Collection", Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent
- "Revolutions – Forms that Turn", 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev) (C)
- "I’ve Got Something in My Eye", Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (curators Bik Van der Pol)
- "Shifting Identities", – (Swiss) Art Today, Kunsthaus Zurich and various venues, Zurich (curator Mirjam Varadinis) (C)
- "Re-Reading the Future", International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague (curator Oliver Zybok) (C)
- "Nul", Foxy Production, New York (curator Dick Evans)
- "Ad Absurdum. Energies of the absurd from Modernism till today", MARTa, Herford (curators Jan Hoet, Michael Kroeger) (C)
- "Voice and Void", Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck (curator Thomas Trummer) (C)
- "Ephemeral Fringes", Art Brussels Exhibition Project (curator Filip Luyckx) (C)
- "If the World was Clear, There’d be no Art", MARTa, Herford (curators Jan Hoet, Michael Kroeger, Lorenzo Benedetti) (C)
- "P2P", Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (curators (curators Le Bureau) (C)
- "The Hands of Art", S.M.A.K., Ghent (curator Ronny van de Velde) (C)
- "Coleccion Inelcom Arte Contemporaneo", Inelcom Headquarters, Madrid (curator Pablo del Val) (C)
- "Laughing in a Foreign Language", Hayward Gallery, London (curator Mami Kataoka
- "Warsaw Does Not Exist (exhibition as a book)", Warsaw (curator Sebastian Cichocki) (C)
2007
- “The Word in Art,” Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Mart, Rovereto (curators committee) (C)*
- “Taking Time,” MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo (curators Isabel Carlos, Iñaki Martínez Antelo) (C)*
- “Voice and Void,” The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (curator Thomas Trummer) (C)*
- “Time Present Time Past,” Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (curators David Elliott, Rosa Martinez) (C)*
- "A Purposeless Production / A Necessary Praxis," St Paul Street Gallery / AUT, Auckland, NZ (curator Leonhard Emmerling)
- “Our Guest – the MuHKA,” Koninkljik Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (curator Bart De Baere)
- “Traum & Trauma - Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou,” Kunsthalle Wien, MUMOK, Vienna (curators G. Matt, E. Koeb, A. Stief)
- Anzengruber Biennale, Anzengruber Restaurant, Vienna (curators Christian Kobald, Rita Vitorelli) (C)
- documenta 12, Kassel (curators Roger M. Buergel, Ruth Noack) (C)
- 52 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curator Robert Storr) (C)
- “History Started Playing with my Life,” The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon (curator Erzen Shkololli)
- “Plus Two,” Museum Kueppersmuehle fuer Moderne Kunts, Duisburg (curators Iara Boubnova, Liviana Dan) (C)
- “Domestic Irony,” Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano (curator Letizia Ragaglia) (C)
- “Europe – Russia – Europe,” State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (curators committee) (C)
- “The Art of Failure,” Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (curator Sabine Schaschl and Claudia Spinelli) (C)
- “Objectif Lunel” (FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon's collection), Espace Lois-Feuillade, Lunel (curator Emmanuel Latreille)
- “Heroes! Like Us...?”, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (curator Julia Draganovic) (C)
- “[kick!],” S.M.A.K. / AZ Maria Middelares, Ghent (curator Philippe Van Cauteren)
- “Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia,” 2nd Moscow Biennial, Moscow (curators committee) (C)
- “One Colour,” Galleria Continua Beijing, Beijing
- “Tricky,” Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona (curator Maribel Lopez)
- “Too Near, Too Far,” Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, NL
- “Space Invaders,” Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (curator Alenka Gregoric)
2006
- “Colección Valencia Arte Contemporáneo (VAC),” IVAM, Valencia (curator Pablo del Val) (C)
- “Forms of Classification,” Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill) (C)
- “Neither a White Cube, nor a Black Box. History in Present Tense,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (curators I. Boubnova, M. Vassileva)
- “Socle du Monde Revisited,” Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark (curator Holger Reenberg)
- “Unhomely,” 2nd Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (curator Okwui Enwezor) (C)
- “Art, Life & Confusion / October Salon,” various venues, Belgrade (curator Rene Block) (C)
- “Broken Lines,” various venues, Toulouse (curators Jean-Marc Bustamante, Mirjam Varadinis, Pascal Pique, Isabelle Gaudefroy) (C)
- “Art East Collection 2000+23,” Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
- “Important Announcement,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva) (C)
- “Common Borders,” Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (curators committee)
- “Grand Promenade,” various venues, Athens (curator Anna Kafetsi) (C)
- “Emergency Biennale in Chechnya,” Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver (curator Evelyne Jouanno)
- “Küba: A Journey Against the Current,” T-B A21 / Nestroyhof, Vienna (curator Daniela Zyman) (C)
- “Art in the Service of Lefties?” Kronika, Bytom, PL (curator Sebastian Cichocki)
- “Coincidences / Distance is a Fake,” Via Nuova Arte Contemporanea, Florence (curator Lorenzo Bruni)
- “Küba: A Journey Against the Current,” T-B A21 / Canetti House, Russe (curators Iara Boubnova, Daniela Zyman) (C)
- “Mityo Solakov – Sculpture,” The House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo (C)
- “Why Children?”, Periferic 7 – Biennial for Contemporary Arts, Iasi, Romania (curators committee) (C)
- “The Culture of Fear,” Hall 14/Federkiel Foundation, Leipzig (curator Frank Motz) (C)
- “Emergency Biennale in Chechnya,” Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (curator Evelyne Jouanno)
- “Homework,” Gagosian Gallery Berlin (a part of the 4th Berlin Biennale), Berlin (curators committee)
- “Garbage People & Trashstones,” Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
- “Full House – Faces of a Collection,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (curator Rolf Lauter)
- “This is not America,” ByArt Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator Galit Eilat)
- “Peace Tower Project” with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Mark di Suvero, Whitney Biennial, New York (C)
- “Damien Hirst, Annette Messager, Joep van Lieshout e.a.,” Museum de Fundatie, Paleis a/d Blijmarkt, Zwolle, NL
- “Report (Not Announcement),” BAK, Utrecht/e-flux (curator Binna Choi) (C)
- “Panic Room,” The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
- “Dark Places,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (curator Joshua Decter) (C)
2005
- “Play Sofia,” Kunsthalle Wien/project space Karlsplatz, Vienna (curator Hedwig Saxenhuber)
- “EindhovenIstanbul,” Stedeljik Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (curator Charles Esche) (C)
- “Senza confine (15th Year),” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
- “Temporary Import – DAAD, Bethanien et al,” Art Forum Berlin, Berlin (curator Susanne Titz) (C)
- “Sweetest Taboos,” 3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana (curators committee) (C)
- “Imaginaere Realitaeten,” art agents/gallery, Hamburg (curator Ludwig Seyfarth) (C)
- “Istanbul,” 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (curators Charles Esche, Vasif Kortun) (C)
- “Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (curator Jordan Kantor) (C)
- “Memory Lane,” Goethe-Institute Istanbul, Istanbul (curator Rene Block)
- “Nach Pokytnik. Die Sammlung der EVN,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (curator Brigitte Huck) (C)
- “The Simple Life,” Hydra School Project / The Hydra Festival, Hydra Island, Greece (curator Dimitrios Antonitsis) (C)
- “Nouveaux projets de MIXM.ORG,” Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Geneva (curator Simon Lamunière)
- “Ensemble!”, MuHKA, Antwerp (curator Bart De Baere)
- “Modern Times,” Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar
- “The Window,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vasslieva) (C)
- “Normalisation: That from a long way off look like flies,” Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (curators Kortun, Paynter)
- “(my private) Heroes,” Museum of Art and Design / MARTa, Herford (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
- “Inset – From MuMOK Collection,” Messezentrum Wien Neu, Vienna (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “OK/Okay,“ The Grey Art Gallery/The Swiss Institute, New York (curator Marc-Olivier Wahler) (C)
- “Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
- “Heal the World,” The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE (curators Sunny Rahbar, Tirdad Zolghadr)
- “Belongings,” Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah (curators Jack Persekian, Tirdad Zolghadr) (C)
- "CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Book Show,” Galerie &: Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris (curator Akiko Miyake)
- "What´s new, Pussycat?" Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (curator Udo Kittelmann) (C)
- “Biennale of Urgency,” Grosny, Chechnya; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Matrix Art Project, Brussels (curators Evelyne Jouanno, Jota Castro)
- “Dionysiac II,” Vidéogallery - Mezzanine de l'Alcazar, Paris (curator Christine Macel)
- “Utopia Station,” World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (curators M. Nesbit, H. U. Obrist, R. Tiravanija)
2004
- “Cosmopolis. Microcosmos X Macrocosmos,” State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (curator M. Carneci, M. Vassileva) (C) - “Casa de luz,” Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona (C)
- “Utopia Station,” Haus der Kunst, Munich (curators M. Nesbit, H. U. Obrist, R. Tiravanija)
- “Nuit Blanche,” various locations, Paris (curators Hou Hanru, Ami Barak, Nicolas Frize) (C)
- 1st Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland (curators committee) (C)
- “25 Years Deweer Art Gallery,” Otegem/Zwevegem, Belgium (C)
- “The Ideal,“ Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (curators committee)
- “Love it or Leave it,” 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje / Dubrovnik (curators Rene Block, Natasha Ilic) (C)
- “August in Art,” Varna Festival of Visual Arts, Bulart Gallery, Varna (curator Vesela Nozharova)
- “Instructions,” Karlsplatz area/Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curator Gerard Matt) (C)
- “White Spirit,” FRAC Lorraine, Metz (curator Béatrice Josse, Hélène Guenin) (C)
- “Art Unlimited (Galerie Arndt & Partner)”, MCH Messe, Basel (curator Simon Lamunière) (C)
- “Privatesierungen. Post-Communist Condition,” Kunstwerke, Berlin (curator Boris Groys) (C)
- “Passage d’Europe,” Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne (curator Lorand Hegyi) (C)
- "Is There a Curator to Save the Show?" Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- “Multiplication,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Plovdiv Municipal Gallery, Varna Municipal Gallery (curator Maria Vassileva) (C)
- "Brainstorming, topographie de la morale," Centre National d'art et du paysage, Vassivière en Limousin (curator Guy Tortosa) (C)
- “Imagine Limerick / ev+a,” various venues, Limerick, Ireland (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
- "Noch einen Wunsch?" Galerie für Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig (curator Ilina Koralova) (C)
- “Incidents / De Nachten,” deSingel, Antwerp (curator Moritz Kung)
2003
- “Sculpture,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- “Art Focus 4,” Underground Prisoner’s Museum, Jerusalem (curators Suzanne Landau, Yidal Zalmona) (C)
- “Divertimento,” Galerie für Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig (curator Barbara Steiner, Ilina Koralova)
- 2nd Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Albisola (curators Vasif Kortun, Tiziana Casapietra, Roberto Costantino) (C)
- “Utopia Station Poster Project,” Haus der Kunst, Munich (curators M. Nesbit, H. U. Obrist, R. Tiravanija)
- “Le STOCK sur demande,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- “Empathy - Beyond the Horizon,” Artspace, Sydney (curator Marketta Seppala) (C)
- “In den Schluchten des Balkan. Kunst aus dem Südosten Europas,” Fridericianum, Kassel (curator Rene Block) (C)
- “Farniente (Le travail, c’est la sante),” FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (curator Emmanuel Latreille)
- “Temporary Spaces,” Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen (curator Charlotte Brandt) (C)
- “Continuare,” Bienal da Maia, Maia, Portugal (curator Jürgen Bock) (C)
- “Utopia Station,” 50 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curators M. Nesbit, H. U. Obrist, R. Tiravanija) (C)
- “Attack! Art and War in the Times of the Media,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curators Gabriele Mackert, Thomas Miessgang) (C)
- “Performance Area,” 18th Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, NL (curator Moritz Kung) (C)
- “Home,” Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- “Videoscreening 04,” Galerie Martin Janda/Raum aktueller Kunst, Vienna
- “Blut & Honig / Zukunft ist am Balkan,” Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (curator Harald Szeemann) (C)
- “Das Lebendige Museum,” Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (curator Udo Kittelmann)
- “Salon des Refusés,” Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (curators Roberto Pinto) (C)
- “False Innocence: Exploring the Fundamental Issues of Contemporary Art,” Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona (curator David G. Torres) (C)
- "Telling Stories," Vedanta Gallery, Chicago
- “Export - Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vasslieva) (C)
- “Durchzug/Draft,” Kunsthalle Zürich (curator Beatrix Ruf) (C)
- “Propositions,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2002
- “The 80s: Known Unknown Forgotten,” National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (curators S. Kuyumdzhieva, V. Nozharova) (C)
- “Hans Stalder, Nedko Solakov, Julie Mehretu,” Kunstmuseum Thun, (curator Madeleine Schuppli) (C)
- "Livres illustrés et livres d'artiste," Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (curator Malou Georges-Majerus)
- “In Search of Balkania,” Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (curators R. Conover, E. Cufer, P.Weibel) (C)
- “Power,” Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (curators Doreet Le Vitte Harten, Enrico Lunghi) (C)
- “Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine Liebschaften,” Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (curator Udo Kittelmann) (C)
- “2000+ Arteast Collection,” Cifte Amam Art Gallery, Skopje (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
- “Loop - Back to the Beginning,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (curator Klaus Biesenbach) (C)
- “10 Years arsFutura,” Galerie arsFutura, Zurich (curator Simon Maurer)
- “August in Arts,” The Municipal Gallery Varna, Varna (curator Roumen Seraphimov)
- “Homeless,” Palazzo Bice Piacentini Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, San Benedetto del Tronto (curator Gloria Gradassi) (C)
- “Reconstructions,” 4th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje (curators Iara Boubnova, Andrej Erofeev) (C)
- “Frenetic Interferences - Memory/Cage Editions,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (curators D. Kurjakovic, A. Notz)
- “De Gustibus,” Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (curators Achille Bonito Oliva, Sergio Risaliti) (C)
- “Cadavre exquis,” Galerie George-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- “Nature,” Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
- “Pause,” 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (curators Wag-kyung Sung, Charles Esche, Hou Hanru) (C)
- “Basics,” Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (curator Bernhard Fibicher) (C)
- “Socle du Monde,” Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark (curator Holger Reenberg) (C)
- “Marchands de souvenirs,” Musee de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne (curator Benoit Decron) (C)
- “Selfportrait,” Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia (curator Vesela Christova-Radoeva)
2001 - “Arteast Collection 2000+,” Orangerie Congress Innsbruck, Innsbruck (curators Zdenka Badovinac, Peter Weibel) (C)
- “Marking the Territory,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (curator Marina Abramovic) (C)
- “Loop - Alles auf Anfang,” Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; P.S. 1, New York (curator Klaus Biesenbach) (C)
- “Total Object Complete with Missing Parts,” Tramway, Glasgow (curator Andrew Renton) (C)
- “A World within a Space,” Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (curator Daniel Kurjakovic) (C)
- “Wir sind die Ander(en),” various sites, Herford (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
- “Devoler,” Institute of Contemporary Art in Villeurbanne, Lyon (curator Ami Barak)
- “Empathy - Beyond the Horizon,” Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (curator Marketta Seppala) (C)
- “Plateau of Humankind,” 49 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curator Harald Szeemann) (C)
- “Locus/Focus,” Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, NL (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
- “Question Choix Multiple,” FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon at Clos de la Fontaine, Lycee Clemenceau, FLER, Montpellier
- “Reality Watch,” ICA Sofia at The Municipal Gallery Rousse, Rousse (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “Ghost,” Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea/Ciocca, Milano
- “Every Day There Is Something Different,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2000
- “IRWIN, Solakov, Zvezdotchotov,” Regina Gallery, Moscow
- “Bricolage?,” FRAC Bourgogne/Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon (curator Emmanuel Latreille) (C)
- “The Last Drawing of the Century (A Window onto Venus),” Zerynthia, 6th Biennale of Havana (C)
- “At Room Temperature,” Golash #28, Sofia (curator Dessislava Dimova)
- “Leaving the Island,” Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea (curators Rosa Martinez, Hou Hanru, Young Chul Lee) (C)
- “After the Wall,” Ludwig Museum Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (curators Bojana Pejic, David Elliott) (C)
- “Waterfront/Cultural Bridge 2000,” various sites, Helsingborg/Helsingor, Sweden/Denmark (curator Pontus Kyander) (C)
- “Amorales, Melgaard, Rawanchaikul, Solakov, Ozawa, Xhafa,” Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
- “Zeitwenden,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 20er Haus, Vienna (curators committee) (C)
- “Premio Michetti 2000,” Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Chieti, Italy (curator Gianni Romano) (C)
- “Storm Centers - Poeziezomers Watou,” Watou, Belgium (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
- “Partage d’exotismes,” 5e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (curator Jean-Hubert Martin) (C)
- “Arteast 2000+/The New Collection,” Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
- “Urbanites” (from the collection of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon), MCA Skopje; Artexpo Bucarest (curator Ami Barak) (C)
- “3 Räume - 3 Flüsse,” various sites, Hann. Münden, Germany (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
- “The Arsfuturashow,” Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
- “On the Other Hand…,” ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Dessislava Dimova) (C)
- “46th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen,” Oberhausen, Germany (curator Marina Grzinic) (C)
- “Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection,” MCA Chicago (curator Staci Boris) (C)
- “L’Autre moitie de l’Europe,” Jeu de Paume, Paris (curators Lorand Hegyi, Viktor Misiano, Anda Rottenberg) (CD-ROM catalogue)
- “Video Positive 2000: The Other Side of Zero,” FACT, Liverpool (curators committee) (C)
- “Cruce de caminos/Crossroads,” Sala Plaza de España, Madrid (curator Pablo Llorca) (C)
1999
- “Jahresgaben”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (curator Nicolaus Schafhausen) (C)
- “Zeitwenden - Looking forward into the next millennium,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (curators committee) (C)
- “Unconditional Love 2,” Norsk Anarkistisk Fraksjon, Oslo
- “Locally Interested,” ICA/National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “After the Wall,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm (curators Bojana Pejic, David Elliott) (C)
- “Turning the Page,” Apollonia Festival of Arts, Sozopol (curator Dessislava Dimova) (C)
- “Faiseurs d’histoires,” Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (curators committee) (C)
- “Together III,” Evangelischer Kunstdienst Erfurt, various churches/Andreaskirche, Erfurt (C)
- “Communication Front,” Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (curators committee) (C)
- “Fauna,” The Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (curators Mindlin, Rottenberg, Kardasz) (C)
- “Alternative Galeries of the 90’s,” Center for Contemporary Art/ATA, Plovdiv (curators Galina Lardeva, Dessislava Dimova)
- “Vendegjatek,” Museum of Contemporary Art/Ludwig Museum/Csikasz Galeria, Budapest (curator Krisztina Szipocs)
- “Recipes,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
- “Photographies 2,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- “Rondo,” Ludwig Museum/Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (curators Katalin Neray & team) (C)
- “Un certain art de vivre” (from the collection of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon), Ata Center for Arts, Ata-Ray, Sofia (traveled) (C)
- “1999 Ways to Weimar,” Weimar - Capital of Culture/3sat, Weimar (curators committee) (C)
1998
- “MoneyNations@access,” Shedhalle, Zurich (curator Marion von Osten) (C)
- “Magic Carpet,” Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmö (curators Charles Esche & team)
- 7. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Züdwest LB, Stuttgart (curator Werner Meyer) (C)
- “Revolution - Terror,” ISEA’98, Liverpool/Manchester, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (curator Charles Esche) (C)
- “Landscape,” Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curator Philip Zidarov)
- “Medialization,” Edsvik Konst. Kultur, Sollentuna, Stockholm; Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn (curator Joseph Backstein) (C)
- “Kräftemessen 2: Bulgariaavantgarde,” Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “A Century of Artistic Freedom,” Wiener Secession, Vienna; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (curator Robert Fleck) (C)
- “New Ways of Expression,” Municipal Art Gallery, Dimitrovgrad, BG
- “Resolution,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
1997
- “Der rettende Engel,” ACC Galerie, Weimar
- “a vendre:,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- “Heaven - Private View,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (curator Joshua Decter)
- “Unmapping the Earth,” Kwangju Biennale‘97, Kwangju (curator Sung Wan Kyung) (C)
- “Splash ! - N. Solakov, P. Sorin, G. Wearing,” ACC Galerie, Weimar (curators Motz, Dietrich, Hopkins) (CD-ROM catalogue)
- “Ars Ex Natio,” SCA, The Old City of Plovdiv (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva) (C)
- “Around Us, Inside Us,” Boras Konstmuseum, Boras (curators Elisabet Haglund, Carlos Capelan) (C)
- “S/light,” Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmö (curator Peter Herbstreuth) (C)
- “Beyond Belief,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (curator Laura J. Hoptman) (C)
1996
- “Enclosures,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (curator Dan Cameron) (C)
- “The Scream / Borealis 8,” Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (curator Kim Levin) (C)
- “Bulgarian Glimpse Show,” BCIC, Moscow (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “Evidence: The Real Diversity,” SCA/Sofia City Gallery (curators Gatev, Minchev, Stefanov, Tcherkelov) (C)
- “The Image of Europe,” Milos Art Space, Thessaloniki (curator Gianni Romano) (C)
- “Inklusion : Exklusion,” Künstlerhaus Graz, Steirischer Herbst’96, Graz (curator Peter Weibel) (C)
- “Instant Replay,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- “Madame ma conscience,” Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
- “Manifesta I,” Natuur Museum, Rotterdam (curators R. Martinez, V. Misiano, K. Neray, H. U. Obrist, A. Renton) (C)
- “The Sense of Order,” Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
- “Beyond Belief,” Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; ICA, Philadelphia (curator Laura J. Hoptman) (C)
1995
- “VideoHart”, SCA / National Museum of Archaeology, Sofia (curator Kamen Balkanski) (C)
- “The Books of the Artists,” Göthe Institute/Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curator Michael Glasmaier)
- “Orient/ation,” 4th Istanbul Biennial (curators Rene Block, Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “The Image of Europe,” Nicosia streets, Cyprus (curator Gianni Romano) (C)
- “Beyond Belief,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (curators Laura J. Hoptman, Richard Francis) (C)
- “Transittions,” National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (curators Hans Knoll, Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “Caravanseray of Contemporary Art,” Fuori Uso / Aurum, Pescara (curator Giacinto Di Pietrantonio) (C)
- “Club Berlin - Kunst Werke,” 46 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curator Klaus Biesenbach)
- “Projects,” National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “The Outburst of Signs,” Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich (curators Fauss, Lanzinger, Loebell) (C)
1994
- “N Forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations,” SCA/Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia (C)
- “BG + CH = Ausstellung,” Sredetz Gallery, Sofia (C)
- “22 Bienal,” Sao Paulo (curators Nelson Aguilar, Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “Europa’94,” MOC, Munich (curators C. Gögger, B. Gross, K. Pfefferle, W. Storms, B. Wittenbrink) (C)
- “Von Kurzer Dauer,” Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (curator Heike Dander)
- “Instability - Progress. The Project for the XXII Sao Paulo Biennial’94,” French Institute, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “Atajaras,” Budapest Galeria, Budapest (curators Hans Knoll, Iara Boubnova) (C)
- “In Search of Self-Reflection,” Plovdiv (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “Prechody,” Galeria Medium, Bratislava (C)
- “Naturally,” Ernst Museum, Budapest (curators Katalin Keseru, Mina Papp) (C)
- “Dermatology ? Art,” Medical Faculty - Department of Dermatology, Sofia (curator Dr. Med. Galentin Gatev) (C)
1993
- “An Idea for Bulgarian Painting,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (curator Ruen Ruenov)
- “Object - Bulgarian Way,” Club of the (Eternally) Young Artists, Sofia (curators Boubnova, Popova, Vassileva)
- “Works on Paper,” Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- “Übergänge,” Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau (curators Hans Knoll, Iara Boubnova)
- “The Danube,” Mücsarnok/Salamon Tower, Visegrad (curator Julia Fabenyi) (C)
- “Exchange II,” Shedhalle, Zurich (curator Harm Lux) (C)
- “Aperto’93,” La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curators Helena Kontova, Kong Changan) (C)
- “3rd Minos Beach Art Symposium,” Aghios Nikolaos, Crete (curator Dimitri Coromilas) (C)
- “Schaerf, Wüthrich, Solakov, Widoff, Tison,” Shedhalle, Zurich (curator Harm Lux) (C)
1992
- 3rd Istanbul Biennial (curators Vasif Kortun, Lucho Boyadjiev) (C)
- “Salve,” Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Munich (C)
- “Hair from a Brush,” Club of the (Eternally) Young Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia (curator Lucho Boyadjiev)
- “From a Moment of Truth...,” Karl Drerup Gallery, Plimouth State College, Plimouth, USA (curator Rachel Weiss)
1991
- “Pentagonale Plus,” Edinburgh
- “Kaimak (Top) Art,” Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
- “Summer Exhibitions of the City Group,” various venues, Sofia
- “Europe Unknown,” Palac Sztuki, Cracow (curators Anda Rottenberg, Lucho Boyadjiev, Philip Zidarov) (C)
1990
- “Expressions,” Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (curator Andrew Nairne) (C)
- “The City Utopia,” Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
- “Top Secret,” Action with Colleagues, Sofia
- “The End of the Quotation,” Club of the (Eternally) Young Artists, Sofia (curator Lucho Boyadjiev)
- “10 x 10 x 10,” Club of the (Eternally) Young Artists, Sofia (curator Georgi)
- “First Exposition of The City Group,” The City Gallery, Rakovski 134, Sofia
- “The Chameleon,” Action with The City Group, Sofia
1989
- “11. 11,” Municipal Art Gallery, Blagoevgrad, BG
- “The Earth and The Sky,” Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia (curators Georgi, Diana Popova)
- “The Tower of Babylon,” Action with The City Group, Gabrovo, BG
1988
- “The City ?,” Rakovski 125 Gallery, Sofia (curator Philip Zidarov)
1985
- “Young Bulgarian Artists,” Witgensteinhaus, Vienna
1984
- “Aspecte Bulgarischer Kunst Heute - Sammlung Ludwig,” Künstlerhaus Wien; Villa Merkel, Esslingen (C)
* forthcoming exhibitions (last updated January 11th, 2006)
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