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Nedko Solakov

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    Nedko Solakov (b. 1957, Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria; lives in Sofia) is a Bulgarian artist who combines his traditional education with conceptual practices to create complex, multi-faceted and sharp-witted works. He is a great storyteller, showing an unmistakably poetic desire for short narratives, aphorisms, comparative descriptions, plays on words and semantic double entendres that are the characteristic elements of his idiom.
    In his wide variety of drawings, paintings, performances and installations, Solakov employs an ironic, metaphoric and poly-semantic style to analyse the role and contradictions inherent not only to the contemporary art system, but also collective “truths” and societal norms connected with the human existence.

    Since the early 1990s, Nedko Solakov has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. His work was featured in Aperto’93 (Venice Biennial); the 48th, 49th, 50th and 52nd Venice Biennial; the 3rd, 4th and 9th Istanbul Biennial; São Paulo’94; Manifesta 1, Rotterdam; the 2nd and 4th Gwangju Biennial; the 5th Lyon Biennial; Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem; the 4th and 5th Cetinje Biennial; the 1st Lodz Biennial; the 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; the 3rd Tirana Biennial; the 2nd Seville Biennial; the 2nd Moscow Biennial; documenta 12; 16th Sydney Biennial; Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennial; Singapore Biennial 2011; dOCUMENTA (13); Kathmandu Triennale; 1st Riga International Biennial for Contemporary Art and Lahore Biennale 2. He had solo shows at Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Kunsthaus Zurich; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; Sofia City Art Gallery; Galleria Borghese, Rome; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; BOZAR, Brussels; ICA Sofia, La Panacee, Montpellier, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome. In 2003-2005 an extensive mid-career “A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey” was presented at Casino Luxembourg, Rooseum Malmoe and O.K Centrum Linz, and in 2008-2009 the “Emotions” solo project was exhibited at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, and Institut Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt. In 2011-2012 his retrospective “All in Order, with Exceptions” was presented at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Fondazione Galleria Civica Trento (“All in (My) Order, with Exceptions”), S.M.A.K., Ghent and Fundação de Serralves, Porto. His works belong to more than fifty international museums and public collections, among them MoMA New York, Tate Modern, London and Center Pompidou, Paris.

     

    Expositio Mundi – Ghezzi and the Invention of Exhibitions

    Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, IT
    until 25.01.2027

    South by Southeast

    EΜΣΤ National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
    until 31.12.2026

    Controfigure

    Fondazione Paul Thorel, Napoli
    until

    Beyond the line. Works from the Serralves Collection

    Serralves Museum, Porto, PT
    until 04.01.2026

    Flirt and Fantasy: Griffelkunts from Max Klinger to Peter Doig.

    Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, DE
    until 01.03.2026

    So Close to Heaven. Clouds in Art

    Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
    until 01.03.2026

    The East Remains Possible

    MoCA, Skopje, MK
    until 29.03.2026

    Being Vallotton

    Villa Flora, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Swiss
    until 01.03.2026

    A Cornered Solo Show #6 (The Miner’s Dream)

    The Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts (MACS) Grand-Hornu, Mons, Belgium
    until 10.05.2026

    Arte & Natura: Dentro e Fuori

    Villa Arconati, Bollate, Milan
    until 12.10.2025

    A Cornered Solo Show #5

    Ludwin Museum, Budapest
    until 29.06.2025

    Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency

    Wende Museum, Culver City, USA
    until 19.10.2025

    A Cornered Solo Show #3 (with Charles Esche as my artistic conscience)

    Belvedere, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna
    until 19.06.2024

    A Cornered Solo Show #2

    MAXXI, Rome, IT
    until 25.09.2022

    A Cornered Solo Show #1

    MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, LU
    until 18.04.2022

    A Life (Black & White)

    Tate, London, UK
    until 01.03.2020

    Stingy Doodles

    Museum HOUSE OF HUMOUR AND SATIRE
    until 19.01.2020