→Dimitar Solakov

Biography

Dimitar Solakov is a Bulgarian multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses photography, video, drawing, painting, installation, sound, 3D printing, and digital technologies including AR and VR. He graduated in Photography from New Bulgarian University. His work examines the relationships between humans and their surroundings and the ways in which we understand, transform, and construct the world around us. Moving between nature and urbanisation, personal experience and collective histories, Solakov often questions humanity’s position at the centre of these relationships and the responsibility that comes with its capacity to alter the environment. Climate change and possible futures for humanity form an important strand of his practice. Rather than treating the future as a distant or purely speculative space, he uses it as a way of looking back at the present—examining contemporary choices, anxieties, contradictions, and failures through their possible consequences. Other works revisit the past, questioning how history, cultural heritage, and collective memory are reconstructed and reinterpreted in the present. His approach shifts between deeply personal perspectives and deliberately distanced or speculative positions. Solakov has presented his work internationally, including at the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Cosmopolis #2 at Centre Pompidou, the Art Encounters Biennial, the Gabrovo Biennial, Kunsthalle Bega, and other institutional and independent contexts.