Slav Nedev
Sofia, Bulgaria
8 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Sofia
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Works by Slav Nedev
Slav Nedev is born in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lives and works.
Since 1989 he is a freelance artist with interest in various fields including painting, drawing, digital art, sculpture, installation etc.
He is a winner of various awards and scholarships, participant in international biennials and festivals, his works are to be found in numerous private and public collections.
1967 Born in Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Sofia.
Since 2001 Member of Union of the Bulgarian Artists
Since 1989 Freelance Artist
Works in Publics Space
2019 The Evergreen Twig (sculpture, Rosarium Park, Kazanlak), stainless steel, 304 x 197 x 199 cm
2018 Rose Flower (sculpture, Rosarium Park, Kazanlak), aluminum, stainless steel, 260 x 192 x 192 cm
Curatorial Projects
2019 C (Carbon), Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 τόπος - topographies - ...topias, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Selected Solo Shows
2023 Out of Space – out of Time, Arosita Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Inner/Outer Spaces, Depoo Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 Objects, Arosita Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Slav Nedev. Paintings, Zehentstadel, Bertzhausen, Germany
2016 Water Prints, Artur Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 Biotope, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Images from Nowhere, Agrion Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2006 Remains, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 Elements, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2003 Between Two Dreams, Triadiss Gallery, Sofia
1995 Selected Works, Vitosha Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Selected Group Shows
2022 Biographical: Places of the Experienced. Shadows of the Past, Shadows of the Future, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 National exhibition Sliven 2021, City Art Gallery, Sliven
2019 Thank You Mr. Ruf, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
C (Carbon), Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 Ilindentsi. An Art Zone, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Youthexhibition 2, Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 7th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Bistrichki, Valchev, Nedev, Simeonov, Art Center Gallery, Pleven, Bulgaria
Bistrichki, Valchev, Nedev, Stubel Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 τόπος - topographies - ...topias, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
PaySage, The Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 SUPER[M]ART[KET], Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
Map of the New Art (Luciano Benetton collection), Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
2014 Snap to Grid, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, USA
What Happened?, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
To Be Continued… (Gaudenz B. Ruf Collection), Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Untold Abstraction, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Hospital for Lovers, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 Earth | Body | Mind, KIAF 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal
Chances, Choices, Changes, (a World Bank project curated by Marina Galvani) National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
Communications, VIVACOM Art Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Zona URBANA, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Two Brothers, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
Reality & Fiction, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
T-A-P-E INVITES at Made in Arnhem 2009, Arnhem, Netherlands
Environmental Justice, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Uninhibited Contacts, Argos Gallery, Sofia
Close Distance, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia
2007 Traffic, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
Cultural Identity, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia / Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, CT, USA
Balance, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2006 The Body, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 Personal Mythologies, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2003 10 Years Izkustvo/Art in Bulgaria Magazine, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia
The Figure Painting, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
Five Bulgarian Artists, Bulgarian Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 Bulgarian Painting after 1989, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2000 Young Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery
1993 New Names 2, Shipka 6 Gallery of UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Residencies and Symposiums
2022 Continuity and New Dimensions, Art Center Ilindentsi, Ilindentsi, Bulgaria
2019 Art 2019, Art Center Ilindentsi, Ilindentsi, Bulgaria
2017 Mit Holz kochen, 3rd International Art Symposium, Beratzhausen, Bavaria, Germany
2015 Sound & Color, Varna, Bulgaria
2014 Anders und doch gleich, 1st International Art Symposium, Beratzhausen, Bavaria, Germany
Freeze Frame, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
2012 Art 2012, Art Center Ilindentsi, Ilindentsi, Bulgaria
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Bavaria, Germany
The Old School International Art Residency, Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria
2011 World Art Games - Vukovar 2011 International Art Residency, Vukovar, Croatia
2010-11 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2010 Art Paths, Krapets, Bulgaria
2008 The Steps of Time, Sliven, Bulgaria
2007 Oryahovo 2007 International Art Residency, Oryahovo, Bulgaria
Uninhibited Contacts, 2nd International Art Symposium, Nessebar, Bulgaria
8th Watercolor Art Symposium “D. Uzunov”, Sozopol, Bulgaria
2006 7th Watercolor Art Symposium “D. Uzunov”, Sozopol, Bulgaria
2004 Sozopol Art Symposium, Sozopol, Bulgaria
2003 Vlasina 2003 International Art Symposium, Vlasina Lake, Republic of Serbia
Collections
Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
City Museum of Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia
Contemporary Bulgarian Art, New Bulgarian University Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria
Cultural Center of Leskovac, Leskovac, Serbia
Department of State, Washington D.C., USA
Gaudenz B. Ruf, Zürich, Switzerland
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Kuratorium Europäische Kulturarbeit, Beratzhausen, Germany
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
Museum Dechko Usunov, Sofia, Bulgaria
Siddhartha Arts Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Town of Shabla, Shabla, Bulgaria
World Art Games, Osijek, Croatia
Selected Bibliography
2017 Catalogue of the 7th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China. Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing. ISBN: 978-7-5135-9391-5
2017 Mit Holz kochen, 3. internationales Künstlersymposium Beratzhausen für Künstler/Innen mit und ohne Behinderung. Published by Kuratorium Europäische Kulturarbeit, Beratzhausen, Deutschland.
2016 S. Nedev. τόπος - topographies - ...topias, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Slav Nedev.
2015 Bulgaria: Save the Dreams. Contemporary Artists from Bulgaria (English/Bulgarian/Italian) from Imago Mundi Series. First published by FABRICA, Italy 2015. ISBN: 978-88-98764-59-4
2014 P. Tzanev, St. Pamukchiev, The Untold Bulgarian Abstraction (English/Bulgarian), Published by Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, ISBN: 978-954-92096-7-9
2014 Anders und doch gleich, 1. internationales Künstlersymposium Beratzhausen für Künstler/Innen mit und ohne Behinderung. Published by Kuratorium Europäische Kulturarbeit, Beratzhausen, Deutschland.
2013 B. Rangelova, 120 years Bulgarian Art: Unions, Associations and Groups from 1892 to 2012, Foundation Supporting Art in Bulgaria, ISBN: 9549259137, 9789549259131
2012 2nd Kathmandu International Art Festival, KIAF 2012, Earth | Body | Mind. Published by Siddhartha Art Foundation.
2009 TAPE Invites at Made in Arnhem 2009, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Published by TAPE, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2003 D. Simeonova, Th. Vulcheva, The Pastel Technique in the Works of Four Bulgarian Artists, ART LIMES Magazine, Issue 2, 2003, Hungary
2002 Ruen Ruenov. Bulgarian Painting after 1989, Exhibition catalogue. Published by Contemporary Art Assn., Sofia, Bulgaria, ISBN: 954-91163-1-X
2001 D.G. Dimitrov, Izkustvoto na XX vek - Sadbata na avangarda (The Art of the 20th century - The Fate of the Avant-garde), Prosveta-Sofia AD, ISBN: 9540109345
2000 St. Yanakieva, Young Artists of the ’90, Izkustvo/Art in Bulgaria Magazine, 75-77, 2000
Awards and Scholarships
2022 Grant for a solo exhibition, Creative Initiatives Program of National Culture Fund, Bulgaria
2021 Grant for a solo exhibition, Creative Initiatives Program of National Culture Fund, Bulgaria
2019 Second Prize. Competition for a Work in Public Space in Rosarium Park, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2017 First Prize. Competition for a Work in Public Space in Rosarium Park, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2016 Grant for Curating a Group Exhibition, Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art
2012 Certificate of Honor from Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Kathmandu, Nepal
2011 Residency at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Schwandorf, Bavaria, Germany
2009 Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France