Nenko Balkanski

About me
Nenko Bojanov Balkanski
I was born on the 1st of November 1977 in Sofia, Bulgaria and was brought up in an artistic environment being the grandson of a famous Bulgarian painter of the same name. This direct contact with art from a very early age probably predestined my life-involvement with painting. The creative strain has never left me and I have dedicated myself to painting and the strenuous paths of the artistic quest. Although mural painting is a field in which I have been working for some time, especially iconic murals, I have simultaneously produced a number of landscapes, portraits and still-life paintings which I was invited to exhibit at the Overgas private gallery in Sofia in December 2005. At present I am also working in the interior design field, where I have been experimenting with combinations of materials, textures and nuances, integrating natural motifs into the often monolithic corpus of the home and work-place.

1984-1991 125 Comprehensive School “Dr. Ivan Pashov”, Sofia

1991-1996 Arts Gymnasium “Academician Ilia Petrov” Sofia,


1996-2002 National Academy of Arts “Nicolay Pavlovitch”, Sofia,
Diploma for Magisterial level in Mural Painting, profession Artist

2003 July National Academy of Arts “Nicolay Pavlovitch”, Sofia –started doctoral dissertation in “Theory of contemporary Greek-Orthodox art”

Solo exhibitions:
2005 05.12 Short presentation exhibition organized by OVERGAS in their building
2007 20.09 Exhibition in Gallery “Vedart” - Sofia
2007 04.12 Exhibition in Cultural Center Trakart in Plovdiv
2008 09.10 Exhibition in Gallery "AZZA" - Sofia

2008 11.12 Exhibition in the Gallery of the Bulgarian
Cultural Institute in Budapest - Hungary

2009 17.05 Exhibition in Gallery of the Music Academy in the city of Debrecen - Hungary

2009 19.10 Exhibition in Gallery "Rakursi" - Sofia
2011 13.10 Exhibition in MOM Cultural Center – Budapest, Hungary