Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 |
"A Cornered Solo Show #3 (with Charles Esche as my artistic conscience)," Belvedere Museum, Vienna*
"Sheila Hicks and Nedko Solakov – Flying Colors in Yarn and Water," Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia* "Together (with Jiri Kovanda)," Galleria Continua at Contemporary Art and Sculpture Park, Bechyne Castle, Czech Republic "Peyrassoldoodles among Philippe Austruy Collection," Commanderie de Peyrassol, Flassans-sur-Issole, France |
2022 |
"Stories on Paper," Georg Kargl Box, Vienna "A Side Solo Show (drawings only)," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano "A Cornered Solo Show #2," MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome "Wishes," Art Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia "10 + 1 Paintings," Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia |
2021 |
"Stories from Faraway," The Metamorphoses Bookstore & Gallery / Galleria Continua, Paris "Art & Futur. Ex-Ex, Expérience Expo avec Nedko Solakov," Galleria Continua Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, Paris "A Cornered Solo Show #1," Musee d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg |
2020 |
"Big & Small," Galleria Continua Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, Paris "The Artist-Collector's Dream (a nice thing)," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano |
2019 |
"Solakovs," The Art Gallery Hristo Tzokev and Museum House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo (with Mityo Solakov and Dimitar Solakov) "(almost) Paintings," Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv |
2018 |
"Paintings from Long Ago," Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Paris "Paintings with No Texts and Stories on Walls," La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier (C) "Some Bulgarians," Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia "Some Bulgarians," BOZAR, Brussels |
2017 |
"Color Stories," Dvir Gallery, Brussels "Stories in Colour," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano |
2016 |
"Nature," Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv "Stories," Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna |
2015 |
"Improvements," Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg "Doodles (with almost no script) and Participating Moviegoers," the lobby of Bulgarian National Film Archive's Odeon Cinema, Sofia |
2014 |
A Group Show #2," Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia "Mixed Media (in at least four directions and one centre)," Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich |
2013 |
"Paintings with No Texts and I Want Back Home (said the big frog)," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
"Protest Against the Protest," One-Night Stand Gallery, Sofia "Sentimental Show," Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, BG (with Mityo Solakov and Dimitar Solakov) |
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, Amsterdam (C) "The Passage (a commissioned art work’s story)," 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) "Nedko Solakov," Sofia City 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, London (C) |
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 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 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 |
Updated 15 November, 2023
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