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1957 born in Cherven Briag, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria
Education
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
Grants
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
2001 works in Stockholm by a grant of IASPIS
Solo Exhibitions
2009 “Just Drawings (with and without stories),” Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv*
“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; travelling to Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt (C)*
2008 "Emotions", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
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,” ith 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, Switzerland (C)
Exit Gallery, Peje, Kosova
“Dead-Lock Stories”, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
“Garbage People”, Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
2004 “Drawings”, Magazzino Arte Moderna, Rome (collaboration with Massimo Bartolini)
“Rivals”, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
Exit Gallery, Peje, Kosova
"A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (C)
"A High Level Public Art Projekct with a catalogue” Malmöer Konsthall, Malmö
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”, Judaica Galleries, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (C)
"Negotiations”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Seaweeds”, Base, Florence
"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
"Mess", Stichting De Appel Foundation, 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 und Ulmer Museum, Ulm (C)
"20.10.2001", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2001 "Chat", The Royal Academy of Free Arts / IASPIS, Stockholm
"Vitiligio People”, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan
"Anywhere", Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem
"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
"Some Holy Stuff"; Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2000 "Stories 1," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (C)
"Squared Baroque - Baroqued Square," Ikonen-Museum/Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (C)
"El Bulgaro," Galerie Arndt & Partner, Project Rooms/ARCO, Madrid (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
"A Quiz," De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
"Thirteen (maybe)," Musee National 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 Ambassadors 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 Cultures 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," Frenc Institute, Sofia
"4 (maybe 5) Room Installations," Elemag 2D Gallery, Sofia Lessedra Gallery, Sofia
"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 Noahs Ark)," National Palace of Culture, Sofia
1990 "Objects," AIA Gallery, Bourgas, BG
Group Exhibitions
2009 “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)*
“Liquid Frontiers,” Tri Postal / lille3000, Lille (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)*
2008 Shifting Identities – (Swiss) art now, Kunsthaus Zürich
God & Goods - Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Average, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Germany
U-TURN, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Prospect. 1, New Orleans
The Street, The Whitechapel, London
16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
If the World was Clear, There’d be no Art, MARTa, Herford (curators Jan Hoet, Michael Kroeger, Lorenzo Benedetti)
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London
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
“Sweetest Taboos,” 3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana (curators committee) (C)
“Temporary Import – DAAD, Bethanien et al,” Art Forum Berlin, Berlin (curator Susanne Titz) (C)
“Istanbul“, 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (curators Charles Esche, Vasif Kortun) (C)
“Imaginaere Realitaeten,” art agents/gallery, Hamburg (curator Ludwig Seyfarth) (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)
“A Simple Life,” Hydra School Project / 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 für Moderne Kunst, Goslar
“(my private) Heroes“, Museum of Art and Design / MARTa, Herford (curator Jan Hoet) (C)
“OK/Okay“, The Swiss Institute, New York (curator Marc-Olivier Wahler)(C) “Strange, Familiar, and Unforgotten”, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
“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?”, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M., Germany
“Biennale of Urgency,” Grosny, Chechnya; Palais de Tokyo, Paris (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 1st Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland (C)
"25 Years Deweer Art Gallery", Otegem, Belgium
"Love It or Leave It", 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro (curators Rene Block, Natasha Ilic) (C) "Nuit Blanche", various locations, Paris (curators Hou Hanru, Ami Barak, Nicolas Frize) (C)
"Dreams (Night)", istallation at Art Unlimited, Art Basel 2004, Basel, Switzerland
"Utopia Station" Mostra d'Oltre Mare, Naples (curators M. Nesbit, H. U. Obrist, R. Tiravanija)
"Instructions," installation in public space at Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, organized by Kunsthalle Wien (curator Gerard Matt) (C)
"White Spirit," FRAC Lorraine, Metz (curator Béatrice Josse, Hélène Guenin) (C)
"Privatisierungen. 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, Bulgaria (C)
"Brainstorming, topographie de la morale" Centre National d'art et du paysage, Vassivière en Limousin
"Imagine Limerick / ev+a," various venues, Limerick, Ireland (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
"Noch ein Wunsch?", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (curator Ilina Koralova) (C)
"Incidents / De Nachten," deSingel, Antwerp (curator Moritz Kung)
2003 "Sculpture", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
"Divertimento", Galerie für Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig (Kuratoren Barbara Steiner, Ilina Koralova
"Focus 4", Underground Prisoner’s Museum, Jerusalem (K)
"Farniente (Le travail, c’est la santé)", FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon
"Continuare," Bienal da Maia, Maia, Portugal (K)
"Home," Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
"Videoscreeing 04," Galerie Martin Janda/Raum aktueller Kunst, Wien
"Empathy – Beyond the Horizon", Artspace, Sydney (K)
"In den Schluchten des Balkan. Kunst aus dem Südosten Europas", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (K)
"Attack! Art and War in the Times of the Media", Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (K)
"Blood and Honey", Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
"Das Lebendige Museum", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
"False Innocence: Exploring the fundamental issues of Contemporary Art", Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona
"Telling Stories", Vedanta Gallery, Chicago
"Salon des Refusés", Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venedig
"Utopia Station", 50 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
"Temporary Spaces", Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Kopenhagen
2nd Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Albisola (K)
"Performance Area", 18th Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Netherlands (K)
"Export - Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria", Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (K)
"Durchzug/Draft", Kunsthalle Zürich (K)
2002 "Propositions", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
"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)
Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
"2000+ Arteast Collection", Cifte Amam Art Gallery, Skopje (curator Zdenka Badovinac) (C)
"Loop - From the Beginning", Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (C)
"Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine Liebschaften", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (C)
"In Search of Balkania", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
"Power", Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
(curators Doreet Le Vitte Harten, Enrico Lunghi) (C)
"10 Years arsFutura," Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
"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)
"Cadavre exquis", Galerie George-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
"Nature", Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
"Frenetic Interferences - Memory/Cage Editions", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York "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
"Reconstructions", 4th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro (curators Iara Boubnova, Andrej Erofeev) (C)
"Nature," Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, NL
"Pause", 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (curators Wag-kyung Sung, Charles Esche, Hou Hanru) (C)
"Socle du Monde", Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark (curator Holger Reenberg) (C)
"Basics", Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (curator Bernhard Fibicher) (C)
"Marchands de souvenirs", Musee de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne (curator Benoit Decron) (C)
"Selfportrait", Rayko Alexiey Gallery, Sofia (curator Vesela Christova-Radoeva)
2001 "Total Object Complete with Missing Parts", Tramway, Glasgow
"Wir sind die Ander(en)", Herford (C)
4th International Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje (C)
"Plateau of Mankind", 49 Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia
"Ghost", Galerie Gian Ferrari, Milan
"Locus/Focus," Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, NL (C)
"For Once, Then, Something", Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (C)
"Marking the Territory", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (C)
"Loop – Alles auf Anfang", Hypovereinsbank Kunsthalle München, P.S.1, New York
"A World within a Space", Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (C)
"Devoler", Institute of Contemporary Art in Villeurbanne, Lyon
"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
"Accrochage", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
"Every Day There Is Something Different", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
2000 "The New Collection", Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
"Leaving the Island", Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan
"After the Wall", Ludwig Museum Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof,
"Waterfront/Cultural Bridge 2000", various sites, Helsingborg/Helsingor, Sweden/Denmark
"Amorales, Melgaard, Rawanchaikul, Solakov, Ozawa, Xhafa", Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
"Zeitwenden", Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 20er Haus, Vienna
"Premio Michetti 2000", Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Chieti, Italy
"Storm Centers - Poeziezomers Watou", Watou, Belgium
"Partage d’exotismes", 5e Biennale de Lyon,
"Arteast 2000+/The New Collection", Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
"Andriesse, de Monchaux, Schimerty, Solakov", Galerie Romain Lariviere, Paris
"3 Räume - 3 Flüsse", various sites, Hann. Mänden,
"The Arsfuturashow", Galerie arsFutura, Zurich
"On the Other Hand", ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
"46th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen", Oberhausen, Germany (C)
"Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection", MCA Chicago "L’Autre moitié de l’Europe", Jeu de Paume, Paris
"Video Positive 2000: The Other Side of Zero", FACT, Liverpool
"Cruce de caminos/Crossroads", Sala Plaza de Espana
1999 "Jahresgaben", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
"Zeitwenden - Looking forward into the next millennium", Kunstmuseum Bonn
"Unconditional Love 2", Norsk Anarkistisk Fraksjon, Oslo
"Locally Interested", ICA/National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
"After the Wall", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Turning the Page", Apollonia Festival of Arts, Sozopol
"Faiseurs d’histoires", Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
"Together III", Evangelischer Kunstdienst Erfurt, various churches/Andreaskirche, Erfurt
"Communication Front", Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
"Fauna", The Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
"Alternative Galeries of the 90’", Center for Contemporary Art/ATA, Plvdiv
"Vendegjatek", Museum of Contemporary Art/Ludwig Museum/Csikasz Galeria, Budapest
"Recipes", Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
"Photographies 2", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
"Rondo", Ludwig Museum/Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
"Un certain art de vivre" (from the collection of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon), Ata Center for Arts, Ata-Ray, Sofia (traveled)
"1999 Ways to Weimar", Weimar - Capital of Culture/3sat, Weimar
1998 "MoneyNations@access", Shedhalle, Zurich
"Magic Carpet", Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmö
7. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Züdwest LB, Stuttgart Meyer
"Revolution - Terror", ISEA 98, Liverpool/Manchester, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
"Landscape", Sofia City Gallery, Sofia
"Medialization", Edsvik Konst. Kultur, Sollentuna, Stockholm; Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn
"Kräftemessen 2: Bulgariaavantgarde", Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich
"A Century of Artistic Freedom", Wiener Secession, Vienna; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
"New Ways of Expression", Municipal Art Gallery, Dimitrovgrad, BG
"Europe, at the bull!", Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bad Salzdetfurth
"Resolution", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
1997 "Der rettende Engel", ACC Galerie, Weimar
"a vendre:", Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
"Heaven - Private View", P.S. 1, New York
"Selest Art 97", Selestat - "Unmapping the Earth"
"Kwangju Biennale 97, Kwangju
"Splash! - N. Solakov, P. Sorin, G. Wearing", ACC Galerie, Weimar
"Ars Ex Natio", SCA, The Old City of Plovdiv
"Around Us, Inside Us", Boras Konstmuseum, Boras - "S/light", Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmö
"Beyond Belief", Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
1996 "Enclosures", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"The Scream - Borealis 8", Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
"Bulgarian Glimpse Show", BCIC, Moscow
"Evidence: The Real Diversity", SCA/Sofia City Gallery
"The Image of Europe", Milos Art Space, Thessaloniki
"Inklusion : Exklusion", K_nstlerhaus Graz, Steirischer Herbst '96, Graz
"Instant Replay", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
"Madame ma conscience", Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
"Manifesta I", Natuur Museum, Rotterdam
"The Sense of Order", Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
"Beyond Belief", Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; ICA, Philadelphia
1995 "VideoHart", SCA/National Museum of Archaeology, Sofia
"The Books of the Artists", G_the Institute/Sofia City Gallery, Sofia
"Orient/ation", 4th Istanbul Biennial
"The Image of Europe", Nicosia streets, Cyprus
"Beyond Belief", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Transittions", National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
"Caravanseray of Contemporary Art", Fuori Uso/Aurum, Pescara
"Club Berlin - Kunst Werke", La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
"Projects", National Gallery for Foreign Art,
"The Outburst of Signs", Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich
1994 "N Forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations", SCA/Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia
"BG + CH = Ausstellung", Sredetz Gallery, Sofia
"22 Bienal", Sao Paulo
"Europa’94", MOC, Munich
"Von Kurzer Dauer", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"Instability - Progress. The Project for the XXII Sao Paulo Biennial '94", French Institute Sofia"Atajaras", Budapest Galeria, Budapest
"In Search of Self-Reflection", Plovdiv
"Prechody", Galeria Medium, Bratislava
"Naturally", Ernst Museum, Budapest
"Dermatology ? Art", Medical Faculty Department of Dermatology,
Sofia (curator Dr. Med. Galentin Gatev)
1993 "An Idea for Bulgarian Painting", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
"Object - Bulgarian Way", Club of the (Eternally) Young Artists, Sofia
"Works on Paper", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
"Exchange II", Shedhalle, Zurich
"Aperto’93", La Biennale di Venezia
"3rd Minos Beach Art Symposium", Aghios Nikolaos, Crete
"Schaerf, Wüthrich, Solakov, Widoff, Tison", Shedhalle, Zurich
1992 3rd Istanbul Biennial
"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)
"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
Collections
2004 Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Hopital- Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA
Herning Museum, Herning, Denmark
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Ludwig Museum, Aachen
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sofia
Natuur Museum, Rotterdam
Sammler Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen
Teyler Museum, Harlem, NL
The City Art Gallery, Sofia
The European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The National Library, Luxembourg
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Ulmer Museum, Ulm
Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC Bretagne, Chateaugiron
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
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 für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Museum of Art and Design / MARTa, Herford
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
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL
The City Art Gallery, Sofia
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami
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
Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
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