Nestor Kovachev was born in 1981 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. In 2005 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (MFA) and in 2006 he did and Education Internship at Generali Foundation, Vienna,  Austria.

Selected solo exhibitions: Think Tank or Deep-Frozen Archeology of Knowledge, Vienna Fair The New Contemporary, Gallery Heike Curtze (2013);  Take no chances, Hadji Nikoli Inn Art Gallery, Veliko Tarnovo (2013); Uccellacci e uccellini, Gallery Heike Curtze, Salzburg (2012); The Pleasure of Making Art, Next Generation IV, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (2011); Me, a Self-Portrait as an Artwork, Gallery Heike Curtze, Berlin (2011). Emergency Box of Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Vienna (2010). Awards: 2014 Shortlist BAZA Award  for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2013 Shortlist Canson Prix Award, Paris, France .

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

"Some of the presented collages are influenced by illustration, pictures, motives from magazines, newspaper articles, and  encyclopedias of the last 50-60 years and play with elements of abstraction. Very often I just memorize different images in my mind and use them for future creations.

The image motives, in close connection with the titles, consider the outside world and current events. The subject-matter is an always humurous, fresh view on society. In my works I try to investigate and handle very human and individual concepts of distance, banality, isolation, ignorance or irrelevance."