Slav Nedev

Slav Nedev

Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgaria

About Slav Nedev

1967 Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Works and lives in Sofia.______ Since 2012 Founder & President of Biotope Assn.; Since 2001 Member of Union of the Bulgarian Artists; Since 1989 Freelance artist.______ ARTIST STATEMENT The most essential thing about a visual work of art is actually invisible. To me a work of (visual) art is a kind of dream, a medium, which in its silent vagueness conveys what sometimes clear conceptual thinking cannot communicate and is otherwise inexpressible. Paradoxically the most important think in a visual work of art – its spirit – is actually invisible and impossible to put in words, yet we could perceive it instantly if it’s there. I always need to get involved emotionally and mentally with a subject in order to start exploring it through the means of art. Usually such involvement results in a series of works that often evolve through the years. However the things I am interested mostly in are the idea, the principle, the type, and the relationships, most of all the relationship between man and his surroundings, hence my focus on architecture and other urban phenomena and processes as well as on topography that kind of documents the interaction between man and nature. The subject of these explorations could be summed up in the questions: Where are we? How do we interact with our surroundings? What is/will be (the possible) the result of this interaction?

Education:

High school
Private drawing courses

Events:

Collections

Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
City Museum of Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia
Contemporary Bulgarian Art, New Bulgarian University Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria
Gaudenz B. Ruf, Zürich, Switzerland
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Kuratorium Europäische Kulturarbeit, Beratzhausen, Germany
Museum Dechko Uzunov, Sofia, Bulgaria
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Siddhartha Arts Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
World Art Games, Osijek, Croatia

Exhibitions:

Works in Publics Space

2019 The Evergreen Twig (sculpture), Rosarium Park, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2018 Rose Flower (sculpture), Rosarium Park, Kazanlak, Bulgaria


Curatorial Projects

2019 C (Carbon), The Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 τόπος - topographies - ...topias, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria


Selected Solo Shows

2018 Objects, Arosita Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Water Prints, Artur Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 Biotope 17, Arosita Gallery (Stick Space), Sofia
2010 Biotope, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Images from Nowhere, Agrion Gallery, Sofia
2006 Remains, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 Elements, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2003 Creation, Kozhuharovi Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Between Two Dreams, Triadiss Gallery, Sofia
1999 Works on Paper, Dritta Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 Remains, Ata-ray Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995 Selected Works, Vitosha Gallery, Sofia.


Selected Group Shows

2019 Thank You Mr. Ruf, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia,
Bulgaria
The Other Body, Geshov Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
C (Carbon), Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
While Walking about the City, Red Dot Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 The Gift, ICA Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Paper Time, Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilindentsi. An Art Zone, Sofia City Art Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Youthexhibition 2, Red Dot Gallery, Sofia,
Bulgaria
2017 7th Beijing Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Bistrichki, Valchev, Nedev, Stubel Gallery, Sofia
2016 PaySage, The Red Dot Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 τόπος - topographies - ...topias, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 SUPER[M]ART[KET], Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
Map of the New Art, Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy;
2014 Snap to Grid, 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;
The Untold Abstraction, Shipka 6 Gallery of
UBA, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2013 Open Monument, Berlin, Germany;
Hospital for Lovers, Rayko Alexiev Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 Earth | Body | Mind, Kathmandu International
Art Festival 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal;
Chances, Choices, Changes, National Palace
of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria;
Communications, VIVACOM Art Hall, Sofia;
Magnet & Antimagnet, ICA Gallery, Sofia;
Tree of Life, VIVACOM Art Hall, Sofia;
2011 Zone URBAN, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2010 Section 13, Industrialna 11 Gallery, Sofia;
2009 Two Brothers, Bratislava, Slovakia;
Reality & Fiction, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia;
T-A-P-E INVITES at Made in Arnhem 2009,
Arnhem, the Netherlands;
Environmental Justice, Kunsthal
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark;
2008 Uninhibited Contacts, Argos Gallery, Sofia;
Close Distance, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia;
2007 Traffic, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
Cultural Identity, Sofia Press Gallery,
Sofia/Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, CT, USA;
Balance, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2006 The Body, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2005 Personal Mythologies, Shipka 6 Gallery,
Sofia, Bulgaria;
2004 Landscape, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2003 10 Years Izkustvo/Art in Bulgaria Magazine,
Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
Five Bulgarian Artists, Bulgarian Embassy,
Copenhagen, Denmark;
2002 Interior, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
Bulgarian Painting after 1989, National
Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2000 Young Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery;
1995 Spiritual Messages, Vitosha Gallery, Sofia;
1994 New Names, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.