Biography
Martian Tabakov is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in the fields of
sculpture, drawing and installation art.
He creates interactive sound sculptures and site-specific sculptural installations
that are shown in established art spaces but also in non-gallery ones.
One of his main motives in his work is that of the living body as an
everchanging substance in correspondence to its surrounding.
Martian Tabakov has participated in numerous joint and independent
exhibitions and projects in Bulgaria, as well as in countries such as:
Austria, France, Turkey, Serbia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia.
Martian is one of the founders of the independent artist shared space
BELKA – Studio for Sound and Form in Sofia, Bulgaria which has
participated in international programs and exchanges
and is a place that hosts exhibitions, theatrical projects and musical concerts.
He is part of the Sofia based experimental post-punk band KAKE?.
Solo exhibitions:
2026 – The Divine Being, Charta gallery, Sofia
2024 – Before the Musical Instruments, ReBonkers, Varna, Bulgaria
2024 – With Prescription, audio visual performance,
Center Christo and Jean Claude, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
2023 - Inhabitant, Buisness Park Sofia
2023 - Inhabitants, travelling exhibition, Gallery Plus 359,
different outdoor locations in Bulgaria
2022 - The Circumstances We Create Are the Ones That Change Us,
Art Gallery Vaska Emanuilova, Sofia
2021 - CHECK IN, curatorial project of Marcus Graf, Collect Gallery, Istanbul
2021 - Architecture of sound, Gallery Plus 359, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 - Habitat and Inhabitants, BELKA- Studio for Sound and Form
2018 - 1m2 of art , ТАМ, Veliko Tarnovo
2018 - Solo exhibition of drawings - Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2017 - Ideal Perspectives, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
2017 - Solo exhibition of paintings, A&G Art Meeting, Varna
Collective exhibitions:
2026 - Baza Art Award exhibition, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2026 – The Inevitable Future, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
2026 – Festival for Contemporary Art Ruse, Ruse City Art Gallery, Bulgaria
2026 – BLENDING, AYA estate, Harsovo, Bulgaria
2025 – Baza Art Award exhibition, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2024 – Belka in Stockholm, Gallery Studio 44, Stockholm
2025 – Sofia Art Fair, Selected Exhibition, Sofia
2025 - Disturbance/Lost World, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
2024 – Belka Open Studio, Belka – Studio for Sound and Form, Sofia
2024 – Belka in Sarajevo, Museum for Literature and Performance Arts, Sarajevo,
Bosna and Hercegovina
2023 - Baza Art Award exhibition, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2023 – From the Storage 2, Charta Gallery, Sofia
2022 – Ruins and Empires, Sofia Largo, Sofia
2022 – To Collect Contemporary Art, Mühlviertel St. Oswald-Freistadt,
Austria
2021 - Morphology of Space, Art Gallery Rayko Aleksiev, Sofia
2021 - The Price Is Right, curator Voin de Voin, Art Gallery U10, Belgrade
2021 - AURA, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
2018 - Beneath the Surface, National Autumn Exhibitions, Plovdiv
2018 – Reconsidering The Form, A&G Art meeting Gallery, Varna
Awards:
2026 – BAZA art award for contemporary art
2023 – Award for sculpture, national exhibition for sculpture, Union of Bulgarian
Artist, Sofia
2023 – Young Bulgarian Artists – award for sculpture, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery,
Sofia
2021 – Award for sculpture, national exhibition for sculpture, Union of Bulgarian
Artists, Sofia
2017 – Best graduation project in the faculty of Fine Arts,
National Academy of Arts, Sofia