Nikola Mihov (b. 1982) is a Bulgarian artist, photographer and curator based in Sofia. Since 2019 he is part of the curatorial team of Synthesis gallery, Sofia. He is co-founder of the photobook platform PUK! and was a guest-curator of Sofia Art Book Fair (2017).
PHOTOBOOKS
2021 He Breaks, He cuts, He spills,, Janet 45 Publishing, Bulgaria
2017 Processing … Innocences, France
2016 Hello and Welcome to Paris, self-published, co-produced with Janet 45 Publishing, Bulgaria
2015 Forget Your Past, second expanded edition, Janet 45 Publishing, Bulgaria
2012 Forget Your Past, Janet 45 Publishing, Bulgaria
SELECTED PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 31.12, Photo Saint Germain Festival, Room Service 2, Hôtel la Louisiane, Paris, France
2023 31.12, International Meetings of Photography festival, Hindliyan`s House, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2021 He Breaks, He cuts, He spills, pop-up exhibition, delpire & co, Paris, France
2019 Processing… Athens Photo Festival, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece
2019 ReForget Your Past, Contemporary space, Varna, Bulgaria
2018 Processing… Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 Processing… Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 ReForget Your Past, Sofia Art Book Fair, Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Hello and Welcome to Paris, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Hello and Welcome to Paris, Goat milk festival, Gorna Bela Rechka, Bulgaria
2015 Forget Your Past, Fotoquartier im Schlössl-Kino, Vienna, Austria
2015 The Sea Inside, Contemporary Space Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2014 Forget Your Past, Month of Photography, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 The Sea Inside, Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Under Destruction, The Red House – Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 Victoria Palace, Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Forget Your Past, Sofia Architecture Week, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 Forget Your Past, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
2010 Forget Your Past, Goat milk festival, Gorna Bela Rechka, Bulgaria
2009 Forget Your Past, London Photomonth, This Is Not A Gateway Festival, Hanbury Hall, London, UK
2009 Forget Your Past, The Red House – Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Death Valley, BUNA: Forum for contemporary visual arts, ReBonkers gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2022 Self-splaining (a Triumph of Empathy). The European Nomadic Biennial. Manifesta 14, Gallery of the Faculty of Arts Rruga Agim Ramadani, Prishtina, Kosovo
2022 Athens Photo Festival, Photobook exhibition, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece
2021 100 best photographic book in Central and Eastern Europe 2000–2020
2021 Parallel 42 – A Circle of Humanity,exhibition from the Imago Mundi Foundation collection, The Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana, Albania
2018 Photobookfest, Lumiere brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2018 Memory Place, Tabya Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 Cosmodrum, One Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Night of the Year, Arles, France
2017 Here I live, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016 Nuit de la Photo, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2015 Circulation(s) – Festival of Young European Photography, Le Cent Quatre, Paris, France
2015 Save the Dreams – contemporary Artists from Bulgaria – Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fodazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2015 Europe. Southeast – Recorded Memories, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2015 Art for Change 1985-2015, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 Le Voyage a Nantes Festival, Nantes, France
2015 Hide and Seek, Hladilnica Pekarna Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2014 Europe. Southeast – Recorded Memories, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Holidays After the Fall, The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 The Collection. New Acquisitions 2012-2013, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 Bulgarian Photography Now, Contemporary Space, Varna, Bulgaria
2013 Europe. Southeast – Recorded Memories, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Germany.
2013 Bulgarian Documentary Photography, Photo Synthesis Art Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 BG Press Photo, Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Modern Architecture Works. Industrialna Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 East of Best – Young Bulgarian Contemporary Art, Roodkapje Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2012 Menotrentuno III, Young European Photography Festival, Sardinia, Italy
2012 Socialism’s Material Residue, WM Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 A Possible History, The Bulgarian Art Through the Sofia City Art Gallery Collection, Sofia
2012 Raw Art Fiar, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2012 International Festival of Young Photography, Cheboksary, Russia
2012 The Collection, New Acquisitions 2010 – 2011, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Essl Art Award CEE, Academia Gallery, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria 2011
2011 The Other Eye, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Phodar – International Biennial of Photography, Pleven, Bulgaria
2009 From Yesterday till Tomorrow. Monuments of Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Bari, Italy
2008 Fair of Culture, Student Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Gaudenz B.Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art – Shortlist 2008, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2016 Nominee for Kassel Dummy Award
2014 Nominee for The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2012 Nominee for Zooms Award of Salon de la Photo in Paris
2012 Prize for Photojournalism of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists
2011 Nominee for Essl Art Award CEE 2011
2009 Photoschool Prize, Phodar – International Biennial of Photography
2008 Nominee for Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art
SELECTED BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2024 Concrete Architecture: The Ultimate Collection, Phaidon, England (Upcoming)
2019 Future Cities: A Visual History, Bloomsbury Publishing, England
2018 Atlas of Brutalist Architecture, Phaidon, England
2018 Pocket Artchive N2, Kontentive Studio, Bulgaria
2018 SOS Brutalism, Park Books, Switzerland
2016 Nuit de la Photo, Switzerland
2015 Bulgaria: Save the Dreams : Contemporary Artists from Bulgaria, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fabrica, Italy
2015 Circulation(s) – Festival of Young European Photography, Le Bec en l’air editions, France
2015 Art for Change 1985-2015, Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria
2013 Holidays After the Fall – Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia, Jovis verlag, Germany
2013 Europe. South-East – Recorded Memories, Spector Books, Germany
2012 The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague, Edno, Sofia
2012 A Possible History, The Bulgarian Art Through the Sofia City Art Gallery Collection, Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria
2011 Menotrentuno III, Young European Photography in Sardinia, Soter editrice, Italy
2011 East of Best – Young Bulgarian Contemporary Art, Kolektif, The Netherlands
2010 Critical Cities Vol 2: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists, Myrdle Court Press, England
2009 From Yesterday till Tomorrow. Monuments of Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria
MAGAZINES
Fisheye Magazine, (France), M magazine – Le Monde supplement (France) Modern Matter Magazine (England), Geo (France), A10 (The Netherlands) Foam (The Netherlands), British Journal of Photography (Great Britain), Le Monde (France), Reponses Photo (France), IL Fotografo Magazine (Italy), Abitare (Bulgaria) One magazine (Bulgaria)