Nedko Solakov

Nedko Solakov This is me, too... 1996 courtesy the artist
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1957 born in Cherven Briag, Bulgaria

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Studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia

1981 Graduation in Mural Painting - Prof. Mito Ganovski

1985/1986 studies at Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

1992 works in Zurich by a grant of Artest Foundation

1993 works in Austria by a grant of KulturKontakt, Vienna

1994/1995 works in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin by a grant of Philip Morris Foundation

Since 1995 (founding) member of the Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia

2001 works in Stockholm by a grant of IASPIS

2002 works in Japan by a grant of CCA Kitakyushu

2007 receives an “Honourable Mention to an artist exhibited in the central international exhibition”, 52 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

 

Selected One Person Exhibitions

2012 - "A Quiz (again)," De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL*
- "All in Order, with Exceptions," Museu de Arte Contemporanea Serralves, Porto (C)*
- "All in Order, with Exceptions," Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent (C)
2011 - "All in (My) Order, with Exceptions," Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento (C)
- "All in Order, with Exceptions," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (C)
- "Two Site-Specific Pieces with More Options," Georg Kargl Box, Vienna
- "Beauty," Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia

2010 - “I miss Socialism, maybe,” Galleria Continua, Beijing (C)

- “High Level Margins with a Catalogue,” Kunstverein, Amsterdam (C)

- “The Passage (a commissioned art work’s story),” Uccelliera di Galleria Borghese, Rome (C)

- “A Riffraff,” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano

2009 - “Just Drawings (with and without stories),” Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

- “Emotions (without masks),” Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt (C) (C)

- “Nedko Solakov,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (C)

- “The Freedom of Speech (or how to argue properly),” Castello di Rivoli, Turin (C)

- “Some Newly-Born Utopias,” artconnexion, Lille (C)

- “Emotions,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (C)

2008 - “Emotions,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (C)

- “A Turnover for Many and a Bit of Luck for One,” Whitechapel Street Project, Whitechapel Gallery, London (C)

2007 - “Walls & Floor (without the Ceiling)”, Kunstforum BA - CA, 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 - a selection of my unsold pieces from the private galleries I work with,” 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 Contemporary 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 Mityo 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

2012 - "About Stupidity," The Petach Tikva Art Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (curators Doreet LeVitte Harten, Diana Dallal) (C)*
- "New Boxes!" Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (curator Fanni Fetzer) (C)*
- "Utopraxia," TAF/The Art Foundation, Athens (curator Evangelia Ledaki)*
- dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev) (C)*
- "With Criminal Energy – Art and Crime in the 21st Century," Halle 14, Leipzig (curator Frank Motz)
- "Beaufort 04," Triennale voor Hedendaagse Kunst aan Zee, various venues, Nieuwpoort, Belgium (curators committee) (C)
- "Art & Press," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (curators committee) (C)
- "Gold," Belvedere Museum, Vienna (curator Thomas Zaunschirn) (C)
- "El camino más largo comienza con una simple línea," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (curator Carlos Garaicoa)
2011 - "The Power of Doubt," Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou (curator Hou Hanru) (C)
- "The Present and Presence," The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (curators Z. Badovinac, B. Piskur, I. Spanjol) (C)
- "Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator Suzanne Landau)
- XI Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador (curators committee) (C)
- "Der Reiz der belanglosen Geschichte," Galerie Zink, Berlin
- "Incongruous," Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (curator Bernard Fibicher) (C)
- "Strange and Close," CAPC Bordeaux (curators Galit Eilat and Charles Esche) (C)
- "Powerhouse Depot. Recently unpacked. How art ages," MARTa, Herford (curators committee)
- "Terrible Beauty. Dublin Contemporary 2011," Dublin, various venues (curators committee) (C)
- "The End and Beyond," The 17th Week of Contemporary Art, Art Today Association, Plovdiv (curator Vera Mlechevska) (C)
- "New on Paper: Recent Acquisitions in the Prints and Drawing Collection," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator M. Perry-Lehmann) (C)
- "Tolerabilis," Toskanische Säulenhalle im Zeughaus, Augsburg (curator Ilina Koralova) (C)
- "Site Inspection. The Museum on the Museum," Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (curators committee) (C)
- Watou Art Festival, Watou (curator Jan Moyaert) (C)
- "Tomorrow is the Question," Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent (curator Philippe Van Cauteren)
- "LOL: A Decade of Antic Art," Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (curator Sue Spaid) (C)
- "The Power of Doubt," Museo Colecciones ICO, PHotoEspaña, Madrid (curators Gerardo Mosquera, Hou Hanru) (C)
- "The Choice. 43 Art Historians – 43 Artworks," Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (curators Maria Vassileva, Dessislava Dimova) (C)
- "After the Flight," Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
- "Über Dinge," Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzuschlag (curator Stella Rollig) (C)
- "No Government No Cry," CIAP Actuele Kunst, Hasselt (curator Kendell Geers) (C)
- "Merz World – Yona Friedman & Tomas Saraceno," Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (curators Maurizio Bortolotti, Adrian Notz)
- "I am not a studio artist - Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin," SALT, Istanbul (curator Vasif Kortun) (C)
- "Things are Queer. Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit," MARTa, Herford (curators Walter Guadagnini, Roland Nachtigaeller) (C)
- "Open House," Singapore Biennale 2001, Singapore (curators Mathew Ngui, Trevor Smith, Russell Storer) (C)

2010 - “Museum Souvenirs,” ICA Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova and Maria Vassileva)

- “Between Cultures / Socle du Monde,” Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark (curator Holger Reenberg) (C)

- “By Day, By Night,” Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, China (curator Hou Hanru) (C)

- “Just Love Me. Regard sur une collection privée,” Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (curators E. Lunghi, C. Minighetti)

- “A Place out of History,” Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (curators Magali Arriola, Magnolia de la Garza) (C)

- “The More I Draw,” Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (curator Eva Schmidt) (C)

- “The Big Wave / August in Art,” The Municipal Gallery Varna, Varna (curator Maria Vassileva) (C)

- “Third Thoughts,” Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (curators Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski)

- “Things Evoke Feelings,” Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (curators Grzegorz Borkowski, Marcin Krasny)

- “Like Tears in Rain,” Palácio das Artes, Porto (curator Luiza Teixeira de Freitas) (C)

- “Beyond Credit / Istanbul – Cultural Capital of Europe,” Antrepo 5, Istanbul (curators I. Boubnova, L. Boyadjiev, M. Vassileva) (C)

- “Our 20 Years in Contemporary Art,” ICA Gallery,  Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva)

- “Mutiny Seemed a Probability,” Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (curator Adrienne Drake) (C)

- “Changing the World,” Arndt, Berlin (curator Matthias Arndt)

- “A Pair of Left Shoes,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (curator Tihomir Milovac) (C)

- “A quarter turn on every screw,” Kings Artists Run Initiative, Melbourne (curator Kel Glaister) (C)

- “Functions of Drawing. Conceptual Art on Paper from the MMK Collection,” MMK, Frankfurt (curator Susanne Gaensheimer)

- “Insights into the Collection Frieder Burda,” Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, (curators P. Kamp, J.-C. Ammann) (C)
- “Artists Books from Consolandi Collection. 1919-2009,” Palazzo Reale di Milano, Milano (curators Angela Vettese, Giorgio Maffei) (C)

- “Che cosa sono le nuvole? A selection from the Enea Righi Collection,” Museion, Bolzano (curators Eric Mezil, Letizia Ragaglia) (C)

- “Fine Line,” Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (curator Georg Kargl)

- “Brave New World,” Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (curator Enrico Lunghi) (C)

- “Wishes and purchases: Contemporary Drawing,” Museum Folkwang, Essen (Tobias Burg) (C)

- “Quartet – Four Biennials Reflected in Prints,” International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (curator Rene Block) (C)

2009 - “Niet Normaal. Difference on Display,” De Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (curator Ine Gevers) (C)

- “European Drawings,” Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome (curators Laura Cherubini, Giorgio Verzotti)

- “Gagarin. The Artists in their Own Words,” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent (curator Wilfried Huet)

- “Strange and Close / Play Van Abbe,” Stedeljik Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (curator Charles Esche) (C)

- “For the Use of Those Who See,” Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin (curator Susanne Pfeffer) (C)

- “Black Little Curly Hair,” Kappatos Gallery, Athens (curator Nicos Charalambidis)

- “Spheres 2009,” Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France (curators M. Cristiani, L. Fiaschi, M. Rigillo) (C)

- “The Sky within My House. Contemporary Art in Patios of Cordoba,” various locations, Cordoba (curator Gerardo Mosquera) (C)

- “Morality,” Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (curators Nicolaus Schafhausen, Juan Gaitan) (C)

- “1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future?” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curators Gerald Matt, Catherine Hug) (C)

- “From Ideology to Economy,” State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)

- “Exposition Fleuves,” Centre national de l'édition et de l'art imprimé, Chatou (curators committee)

- “Chapter Four: Word Wraps,” About Change Collection, Berlin (curator Christiane zu Salm) (C)

- “Pawnshop,” e-flux / the shop, Beijing (curators Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle)

- “Discoveries: Discovering Contemporary,” ShContemporary, Shanghai (curators Mami Kataoka, Wang Jianwei) (C)

- “Platform in Kimusa. Void of Memory,” The Old Defence Security Command Site, Seoul, Korea (curators Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim) (C)

- “Utopics: the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition,” Biel/Bienne (curator Simon Lamunière) (C)

- “Techniques,” ICA Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova and Maria Vassileva) (C)

- “Art Unlimited (Galleria Massimo Minini)”, MCH Messe, Basel (curator Simon Lamunière) (C)

- “Making of Art, “Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (curator Martina Weinhart) (C)

- “A Pair of Left Shoes,” Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum (curator Tihomir Milovac) (C)

- “Take the Money and Run,” Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam (curators committee) (C)

- “Financial District,” International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York City (curator Miguel Amado)

- “Drawings,” Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels

- “Shifting Identities,” – (Swiss) Art Today,” Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnjus (curator Mirjam Varadinis) (C)

- “Liquid Frontiers,” Tri Postal / lille3000, Lille (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)

- “From Yesterday till Tomorrow. Monuments of Sofia,” Sofia City Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva) (C)

2008 - “Curator Curator #2: What is My Name?” HISK, Ghent (curator Lorenzo Bruni)

- “Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennale,” various venues, New Orleans (curator Dan Cameron) (C)

- “Unreliable Witness,” Tramway, Glasgow (curator Lorraine Wilson) (C)

- “Watch Your Step,” ICA at Sofia University, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)

- “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)

- “(keine) Angst,” Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen (curators Barbara Auer, Sarah Debatin) (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 (curator Philippe Van Cauteren)

- “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)

- “God & Goods,” Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy (curators Francesco Bonami, Sarah Canarutto) (C)

- “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)

- “Lots of Things Like This,” apexart, New York (curator Dave Eggers) (C)

- “P2P,” Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (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) (C)

- “Warsaw Does Not Exist (exhibition as a book),” Warsaw (curator Sebastian Cichocki) (C)

2007 - “Cool Days,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (curator Sarah Arhenius) (C)

- “1-2-3. The Collection in Focus,” Ludwig Museum – MCA, Budapest (curators K. Szipocs, V. Baksa-Soos, K. Ueveges) (C)

- “The Word in Art,” Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Mart, Rovereto (curators committee) (C)

- “Constellations / Artissima,” Turin (curators Daniel Birnbaum, Marc-Olivier Wahler) (C)

- “Taking Time,” MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo (curators Isabel Carlos, Iñaki Martínez Antelo) (C)

- “Pawnshop,” e-flux storefront, New York (curators Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden, Anton Vidokle)

- “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)

- “Shadows in Paradise,” FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque / Fort de Breendonk, Willenbroek, Belgium (curators committee)

- “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 (curator Carsten Ahrentz)

- “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 D. 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, 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
(C)      a catalog published

 

Selected Lectures and Symposiums

2012 - NICC at M UHKA, Antwerp (lecture)
2011 - National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Ghent (project tutor/lecture)
- "All in (My) Order, with Exceptions," Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento (artist talk with Iara Boubnova)
- "All in Order, with Exceptions," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (artist talks with Jonathan Watkins)
- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (lecture)

2010 - “I miss Socialism, maybe...,” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (lecture)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Ghent (project tutor/lecture)

- Art Salon: azple – Art for All And All for Art, Art Basel, Basel

- “Contemporary Art: Who Cares?” International symposium, Amsterdam (artist talk)

- “Opere/Works,” Festival of Contemporary Art, Faenza, IT (artist talk)

- “The Passage (a commissioned art work’s story),” Uccelliera di Galleria Borghese, Rome (artist talk)

2009 - National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Ghent (project tutor/lecture)

- "Go East: Contemporary Art in Central and Eastern Europe," UBS Arts Forum, Wolfsberg, Switzerland (artist talk/panel discussion)

- “A Conference Towards dOCUMENTA (13)”, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (panel discussion)

- “Emotions (without masks),” Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt (artist talk)

- Art Lobby: Utopics: the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Art Basel, Basel

- Sofia City Art Gallery (artist talks)

- Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (artist talk with Iara Boubnova)

- Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin (lecture)

- “Rotterdam Dialogues: the Artists,” Witte de With (symposium)

- “Emotions,” Kuntsmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (artist talk)

2008 - “How to tell a story in a space (and not to let the curator screw it)”, CECAC II, Fondazione Ratti, Milan (lecture)

- “Emotions,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (artist talk)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Ghent (project tutor/lecture)

- The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (lecture)

- Whitechapel Street Symposium, Whitechapel Gallery, London (symposium)

- “Laughing in a Foreign Language,” Hayward Gallery, London (artist talk)

- Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London (lecture)

2007 - “The Future of Biennials,“ international symposium, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (panel discussion)

- PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (artist talk)

2006 - “Forms of Classification,” Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (panel discussion)

- “Earlier Works,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Zurich (artist talk)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

- “Mobile Studios,” Interspace/Goethe Institute, Sofia (artist talk)

- “Telling Stories in Space,” Periferic 7/Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania (lecture)

- Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (lecture)

2005 - “Politics & Art / Art & Politics,” Goette Institute, Sofia (panel discussion)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

- “12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey” project, O.K Centrum, Linz (discussion with Martin Sturm)
2004     - “Curators and Artists: Changing relations and perspectives,” MJ – Manifesta Journal, Goethe Institute, Sofia (panel discussion)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

- “12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey” project, Rooseum, Malmoe (discussion with Charles Esche)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

2003 - “Another Try,” “12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey” project, Casino Luxembourg (discussion with Iara Boubnova)

- Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussels (lecture)

- “Export – Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria” project, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (lecture)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (lecture)

2002 - Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (lecture)

- “Polyphony of Voices” conference, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow (panel discussion)

- Frankfurt Städelschule, Frankfurt (lecture)

- De Appel Curatorial Program, De Appel, Amsterdam (lecture)

- “Lava” program, Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht, Maastricht (lecture)
- Galerie Arndt & Partner / NBK, Berlin (lecture)
- “What discourses is art creating?” conference, La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona (lecture/panel discussion)
- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor)

- “Reality’s Desire” program, Comune di Milano, Milano (lecture)

2001 - Royal College for Fine Arts, Stockholm (workshop tutor)

- IASPIS program, Stockholm (lecture)

- De Appel Curatorial Program, De Appel, Amsterdam (lecture)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

2000 - Hochschule für Künste, Bremen (workshops tutor/lectures)

- Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (lecture)

- “Art Exchanges in South-East Europe” conference, Apolonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (panel discussion)

- First School for Visual Arts Curators, ICA/SCA, Sofia (lecture)

- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (lecture)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

1999 - “Locally Interested” project, ICA/Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia (lecture)

- Liverpool Art School, Liverpool (lecture)

- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts/HISK, Antwerp (project tutor/lecture)

- Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (lecture)

1998 - Frankfurt Städelschule, Frankfurt (lecture)

- Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (lecture)

- Arnhem Ateliers, Arnhem (lecture)

- “Art and its mediation in countries of …” conference, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/ifa, Stuttgart (lecture)

- “MoneyNations@access” project, Shedhalle/Galerie arsFutura, Zurich (panel discussion/lecture)

- Ted Gallery/Varna Municipal Gallery, Varna, BG (lecture)

- IKT (International Association of Curators) Annual Conference, Budapest (lecture)

1997 - Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (lecture)

1996 - Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia (lecture)

- “Enclosures” project, The New Museum of Contemporary Art/The Drawing Centre, New York (panel discussion/lecture)

1995 - “The Outbursts of Signs” project, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich (panel discussion/lecture)

1994 - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (lecture)

1993 - “Exchange II” project, Shedhalle, Zurich (panel discussion)

- “3rd Minos Beach Art Symposium” project, Aghios Nikolaos, Crete (panel discussion/lecture)

1992 - New Bulgarian University, Sofia (“Visual Arts” course)

1990 - “Points East” conference, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (panel discussion)

 

Selected Public Collections

 

About Change Collection, Berlin

Burger Collection, Berlin

Cal Cego - Colleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona

Caldic Collectie B.V., Rotterdam

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg

Castello di Ama, Ama, Italy

Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli

Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy

Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt

De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL

Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon

Fondazione Giuliani, Rome

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris

FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon

FRAC Bretagne, Chateaugiron

FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier

Institut Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA

Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark

Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen

Ludwig Museum, Aachen

Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana

Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Musee d’Art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

Museum of Art and Design / MARTa, Herford

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL

National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sofia

Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen

Sammlung EVN, Vienna

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL

Tate Modern, London

Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL

The Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia

The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens

The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The National Library, Luxembourg

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Ulmer Museum, Ulm

UniCredit Group Collection, Rome

Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany

 

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