Nedko Solakov
Nedko Solakov ( Bulgarian Недко Солаков , usual transliteration Nedko Solakov ; * 1957 in Cherven Brjag ) is a Bulgarian artist.
Life
Nedko Solakow studied at the Art Academy in Sofia and graduated from Mito Ganovski in 1981 in wall painting ; 1985–86 he studied at the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Antwerp . From the 1990s he received scholarships in Zurich , Vienna , the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin as well as in Stockholm in 2001 and in Kitakyushu in 2002 . A first solo exhibition took place in 1981 in the gallery "Rakovski 108" in Sofia, outside Bulgaria in 1987 in the railway keeper's house in Esslingen am Neckar . Solakov regularly takes part in international group exhibitions, including several times at the Istanbul Biennale (1992, 1995 and 2005) and the Venice Biennale , where he played in the Bulgarian Pavilion in 1999. In 2007 he was again represented at the Venice Biennale and received an honorable mention from the jury for his contribution to the Arsenale ; two of his works were shown at the same time at documenta 12 in Kassel . He is also represented at dOCUMENTA (13) with the installation Knights (and other dreams), 2010-2012 in the Brothers Grimm Museum . Nedko Solakow lives and works in Sofia.
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Solakow works in various media and art genres, with many works leading to a spatial installation . A theme that runs through his entire work is the position and work of the artist within society and the resulting - sometimes political - questions, which Solakow comments in a humorous and sometimes absurd way. A typical technique are small handwritten notes or drawings that Solakow attaches to the walls of exhibition rooms or builds up as a series of images, for example in his contributions to documenta 12 or the 52nd Venice Biennale. The spatial arrangement of these fragments forms a kind of archive that - comparable to the work of Ilya Kabakov - transfers the artist's experiences from a personal to a political level. An example of this is the work Top Secret (1989–1990), in which Solakov documents his life and in particular his work with the Bulgarian secret service on index cards.
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Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1996 Desires , ARNDT Berlin , Berlin
- 1998 Silly , ARNDT Berlin, Berlin
- 2002 Studies for Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts (and tips for the average global citizen) , ARNDT Berlin, Berlin
- 2006 Earlier Works , Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 2007 New Noah's Ark, Stupiditz and the Wave , ARNDT Berlin, Berlin
- 2009 Emotions , Mathildenhöhe , Darmstadt
- 2010 Optimistic Stories , ARNDT Berlin, Berlin
Web links
- Web presence of the artist
- Literature by and about Nedko Solakow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Nedko Solakow in the documenta archive
- Nedko Solakow on kunstaspekte.de
- Rudolf Schmitz: Absurd stories as inspiration. Portrait of Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov , Deutschlandradio.de , September 10, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ " Political nuances ( Memento from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )", in: art kunstmagazin , October 17, 2007 (web archive accessed on December 3, 2018).
- ↑ 3D panorama and interview on hronline.de (accessed on August 12, 2012)
- ↑ Walter Robinson: " Kvetch Fest ", in: Artnet Magazine , 2007
- ^ Christopher Phillips: “ The view from Europe's lower east side - art in Bulgaria ”, in: Art in America 10.1997
- ↑ Christiane Hoffmanns: “ Confession Artists on the Road to Success ”, in: Welt am Sonntag , August 19, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solakov, Nedko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Солаков, Недко (Bulgarian); Solakov, Nedko (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherven Bryag |