Gencho Nakev is a Bulgarian painter working mainly in the field of abstract art. Born in 1962 in Kazanlak, Bulgaria, where he takes his high school education in Specialized Secondary School of Fine Arts in Kazanlak. Later graduated the University of Veliko Tarnovo, Faculty of Fine Arts, in speciality: Painting
Since 1995 he has been teaching drawing in Drawing and Modelling Department at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia (Bulgaria). Associate Professor since 2011. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1992, and through UAB to AIAP of UNESCO. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
His artworks are possessed by galleries in Sofia, Pleven, Gabrovo, Vidin, Blagoevgrad and Dobrich (Bulgaria), private collectors in Bulgaria, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Russia, USA, Canada, England and Turkey.
Individual exhibitions
2015 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2015 – Art Gallery “Aspect”, Plovdiv
2013 – Municipal Gallery of Pleven
2012 – Union of the Bulgarian Artists,
Art Gallery “Sofia Press” “Journey” I
2012 – Art Gallery “Aspect”, Plovdiv – “Journey” II
2011 – Art Gallery “Nesi”, Burgas
2010 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2009 – Art Gallery “Aspect”, Plovdiv
2008 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2007 – Art Gallery “Aspect”, Plovdiv
2007 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2006 – Art Gallery “Aspect”, Plovdiv
2005 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2004 – Art Gallery “Nesi”, Burgas
2004 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2003 – Art Gallery “Artamontsev”, Sofia
2001 – Art Gallery “Cyclopes”, Sofia
1999 – Month of the European Culture, Sts. Constantin and Helena Church, Plovdiv, the Old Town, presented by Art Gallery “Solers”
1998 – Art Gallery “Navilart”, Varna
1993 – Municipal Gallery of Pleven
1993 – “Gallery 13”, Pleven
1991 – “Rom – Art Gallery” – Braunschweig, Germany
1990 – Municipal Gallery of Pleven
1990 – Gallery of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1990 – Municipal Gallery of Sliven
Major group’s exhibitions and forums
2009 – Exhibition “Layers” – the Art Gallery of the Statе Institute of Culture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Mission” and the Gallery “Artamontsev” present Bulgarian artists at the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU in Brussels
2006 – International Plein Air – Caorle (Italy)
2004 – “Ohlyuv Art” (Snail Art), project of Art Gallery “Artamontsev” and Mrs. Isabelle Sol Dourdin, under the patronage of the First lady of the Republic of Bulgaria,
Mrs. Zorka Parvanova, Programme for development of the ONU
2004 – V Graphic Art Workshop, Plovdiv
2002 – Exhibition “Small format”, Pleven
1999 – Art Fair – Francfort, Germany, presented by Galerie in der Prannerstrasse (Munich)
1997 – Exhibition « Мiniature », Lebanon
1997 – Exhibition “Krida Art”, Sofia
1996 – “Rom – Art Galerie”, Braunschweig, Germany
1995 – “Rom – Art Gallerie”, Braunschweig, Germany
1994 – Union of the Bulgarian Artists, Art Gallery “Sofia Press” presents Bulgarian artistes in Liège, Belgium
1993 – “Salon d’automne”, Paris, France
1992 – Exhibition of “Art Club” – Union of the Bulgarian Artists, Gallery 6 Shipka str., Sofia
1992 – Exhibition “Eroticism”, Pleven
1992 – “Eroticism” Happening, Pleven
1991 – Exhibition of “Art Club” in “Rom – Art Galerie”, Braunschweig, Germany
1991 – Kunstforum – Länderbank, Vienne, Austria, charity auction, presented by the Gallery of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists “Sofia Press”
1991 – Exhibition of « Art Club », Cottbus, Germany
1990 – “The Ship” – installation/happening, forecourt of the
Palace of Culture – Sofia
1990 – International Plein Air “Etara”, Gabrovo
1990 – Group Exhibition “5 + 2”, Gabrovo
1990 – Group Exhibition “ART”, Pleven
1990 – Exhibition “7 + 2”, Pleven
1990 – Exhibition of the Artists of Pleven in the town of Sliven
1989 – Exhibition “Experiment”, Pleven,
collective exhibition of artistes and photographers
1989 – “Awakening”, Pleven, installation/happening Gencho Nakev and Lyuben Kostov