Newsletter: Summer Edition 2026
Newsletter: Summer Edition
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Dear Friends,
We are pleased to share Sarieva/Gallery's summer selection of news and exhibitions from around the world by the gallery and the artists we represent, along with upcoming events, special recommendations, and notable publications and media appearances.
We hope you enjoy this newsletter.
Best wishes,
Katrin and Vesselina Sarieva
GALLERY NEWS
Representation of Krassimir Terziev
Following a long-standing collaboration that began more than a decade ago, including two jointly realized exhibitions and a series of educational panels, Sarieva/Gallery inow proudly represents the artist Krassimir Terziev.
Krassimir Terziev is a leading Bulgarian contemporary interdisciplinary artist with an international career, working across video, photography, and text, and addressing contemporary cultural and social themes. His practice questions the boundaries between reality and fiction, while exploring the multiple transitions and tensions between a globalized world—dominated by an overwhelming multiplicity of symbolic imagery and its material grounding in technological, physical, and human “hardware.”
Most recently, Sarieva/Gallery presented Base and Superstructure, his second solo exhibition with the gallery following “Fixated Images” (2018) at Sariev, Plovdiv.
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Pravdoliub Ivanov’s participation in Manifesta 16 Ruhr (2026)
Manifesta 16, Ruhr region, Germany
St, Gertrud Church, Essen
Curatorial Team: René Block and Leonie Herweg
20 June - 04 October 2026
Sarieva/Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of Bulgarian artist Pravdoliub Ivanov in Manifesta 16 Ruhr, one of Europe’s leading nomadic contemporary art biennials. The 2026 edition will take place across the Ruhr region in Germany from 21 June to 4 October 2026, activating twelve decommissioned post-war church buildings across the cities of Essen, Bochum, Duisburg, and Gelsenkirchen as sites for artistic and civic reimagination.
Manifesta 16 Ruhr brings together over 100 international artists and collectives, including 64 newly commissioned projects developed specifically for the architectural and social contexts of the Ruhr region. The biennial continues its long-standing focus on site-responsive artistic practice and the transformation of urban infrastructures into spaces for dialogue, community, and cultural experimentation.
ARTISTS NEWS
Artan Hajrullahu, Nedko Solakov
South by Southeast
group show
11 June – December 026
Curator: Katerina Gregos
EΜΣΤ National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
[Learn more]
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Pravdoliub Ivanov
Modeern Freedom
group show
19 May – 31 August 2026
Curators: Piotr Franaszek / Tomáš Koudela / Wojtek Radtke
Pilecki Institute, New York, USA
[Learn more]
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Stefan Nikolaev
The Innocent Eye
solo show
30 May – 25 July 2026
Michel Rein, Paris, France
[Learn more]
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Krassimir Terziev and Pravdoliub Ivanov
Programmed Traces
group show
11 June 2026 – 25 October 2026
Curated by Firat Arapoglu
Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
[Learn more]
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Nedko Solakov and Rudi Ninov
20 Years Les Moulins
group show
31 May - 20 December 2026
curators committee
Galleria Continua / Les Moulins, Paris, France
[Learn more]
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Luchezar Boyadjiev
Structures in Transition – Curatorial School 2.0 Exhibition
Group show
23 March – 25 July 2026
Museum of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
[Learn more]
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Nedko Solakov
Controfigure / Proxies
group show
28 April – 04 September 2026
Curator& Sara Agostini
Paul Thorel Foundation, Naples, Italy
[Learn more]
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Vesselin Sariev and Pravdoliuv Ivanov
FIG. 6 - Fabricated Realities: Graphics at the Edge of Belief
group show
05 June – 05 July 2026
Curated by Amelie M. Klein
12 George Washington Street, Floor 3 + Parliament Underpass - space of the Regional History Museum – Sofia, Bulgaria
[Learn more]
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Nedko Solakov
Expositio Mundi - Ghezzi and the Invention of Exhibitions
10 July - 25 January 2027
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy
[Learn more]
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Sasho Stoitzov and Pravdoliub Ivanov
Tissues of Belonging
group show
April 29 – May 30, 2026
Curator: Alec Bălășescu
2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, Romania
[Learn more]
ARTISTS UPCOMING
Summer 2026 - Artist in Focus // DOT Sofia: Showroom
Krassimir Terziev is born in 1969 in Dobrich, Bulgaria, Terziev lives and works in Sofia. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Sofia University (2012), where he has been lecturing since, and an MA degree in Painting from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia (1997), where he lectured from 2009 to 2016. He is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia.
His work is included in major collections such as Centre Pompidou/MNAM (Paris) and Arteast 2000+ (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana), and has been exhibited internationally at institutions including TATE Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Manifesta 14.
Most recently Terziev presented a large-scale installation “Between the Past That Is About to Happen and the Future That Has Already Been” (2024–2025), installed at the site of the former Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in the center of Sofia.
ON VIEW SARIEVA
OT
site-specific project
Petar Nakov curated by Ivaylo Avramov
April 30 – July 31, 2026
Sarieva/Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
RECOMMENDED
Luchezar Boyadjiev
On Vacation – Artist talk
Alliances without (vacationing) leaders
June 12 2026
Public lecture/presentation of “On Vacation…2004-2026 (Corpus Equorum)” cycle and exhibition at the National Gallery in Sofia (summer 2025), within the public program of Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other, Triennial of Photography Hamburg
Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
[Learn more]
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PAUSE — Discussion Forum by Nula32
The Plovdiv Modus Vivendi, a lecture by Katrin Sarieva
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The Place of Eternal Return
A Brief Overview of Bulgaria’s Participations and Non-Participations in the Venice Biennale over the Past 115 Years
by Svetlana Kuyumdzieva
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Pravdoliub Ivanov
Ornaments of Pain
solo show
Curator: Vladiya Mihaylova
Cube Gallery - Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria
[Video]
RECENT MEDIA
One image is not enough
Interview with Krassimir Terziev
Portal Kultura / interview in Bulgarian
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A creative duo with international success
interview with Pravdoliub Ivanov and Vesselina Sarieva, Bulgarian National Television / in Bulgarian
[Watch here]
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A Rebel at Heart: World-Renowned Artist Nedko Solakov on Art and Life
Nova TV / in Bulgarian
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OT – Petar Nakov’s debut exhibition
Interview with Petar Novakov and Katrin Sarieva
Bulgarian National Television / in Bulgarian
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Curator Vladiya Mihaylova discusses the exhibition Passage by artist Sasho Stoitzov
Darik Radio / in Bulgarian
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Dimitar Kambourov on the exhibition Base and Superstructure by Krassimir Terziev
Capital / in Bulgarian
[Read here]
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Art et nectar
Le Quotidien de L'art / in French
[Read here]
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Solo Exhibition by Krassimir Terziev
Interview with Krassimir Terziev and Vesselina Sarieva
Bulgarian National Television/ in Bulgarian
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Petya Blagoeva on Ornaments of Pain by Pravdoliub Ivanov
Capital / in Bulgarian
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The exhibition Passage by the artist Sasho Stoitzov
Interview with Vladiya Mihailova and Vesselina Sarieva
Bulgarian National Television/ in Bulgarian
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The superstructure as a Base
Text: Kiril Vassivel
Portal Kulura/ in Bulgarian
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Ornaments of Pain or Art as an Antidote to Numbness
Въпреки.com / in Bulgarian
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A gallery in Plovdiv will present a site-specific project by the sculptor Petar Nakov
Bulgarian News Agency / in Bulgarian
[Read here]
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Ornaments of Pain – an exhibition by Pravdoliub Ivanov
Interview with Pravdoliub Ivanov and Vladiya Mihailova
Bulgarian National Television / in Bulgarian
[Watch here]
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The curator Vesselina Sarieva and the artist Krassimir Terziev discuss the exhibition Base and Superstructure
Darik Radio / in Bulgarian
[Watch here]
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Ornaments of Pain
Interview with Pravdoliub Ivanov
Portal Kultura / in Bulgarian
[Read here]
