Born: March 28, 1952 (67 years old), in Rousse.
Education:
1977 - graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia, specialty Painting", under Prof. Dobri Dobrev.
Since 1992 he has been an associate professor and since 1998 a professor of painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
He works mainly in the field of painting, but also in the murals, scenography, graphics and layout of the book. He has more than 100 participations in representative exhibitions of Bulgarian art in the country and abroad and over 50 publications. Author of the book "Things, places and people", 2011, Zahariy Stoyanov Publishing House, Sofia.
She lives and works in Sofia.
Since 1998 he has been actively involved in the European programs "Erasmus" and "Socrates".
In 1994 and 1995, he holds a master's degree in painting in Seoul, Korea, to the Seoul Art Center. 1995 is invited by the Pro Arte Bulgarika Foundation for one month stay and work in Switzerland. In 1997 he won a scholarship to stay and work in Paris.
His works are owned by the National Art Gallery, Art Gallery, art galleries in the country, state and private collections abroad - Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Finland, Israel, Spain, France, England, USA, Germany, Canada, South Korea National Art Gallery - Bratislava, Art Gallery - Szczecin, Dr. Peter Ludwig Collection - Aachen and others.
He is also the author of four frescoes in Varna. He has made several stage designs in different theaters in Sofia.
In 1996 he was the curator of the exhibition "Bulgarian Jewish Artists" under the auspices of the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria.
There have been participations in joint exhibitions presenting the Bulgarian art in Rome, Lisbon, Stockholm, Moscow, Lucerne, Schaffhausen, Vienna, Batereihenhal and others.
Solo exhibitions:
2017 - Paintings on paper, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
2015 - Attempt to Understand, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
2014 - Painting Exhibition, Vladimir Dimitrov - Master Art Gallery, Kyustendil
2014 - "Back to Paris", "Rakursi" Gallery, Sofia
2012 - Associates, Academy Gallery, Sofia
2011-2010 - Nostalgia all, Dom Wittgenstein, Vienna Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava Gallery-Bookstore "Sofia Press", Sofia
2010 - "Are You Ready?", Rakursi Gallery, Sofia
2008 - Things Outside Us, National Autumn Exhibitions, Balabanov House, Old Plovdiv, CIBANK Gallery, Sofia
2007 - Return to Egypt, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia
2002 - Things, places and people (jubilee exhibition), Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia (2001 - Sacrifices, Tsiklop Gallery, Sofia
Musicians: UBA Gallery, 6, Shipka Street, Eurobank, Sofia
1999 - 5x3 + 2 or not here and not now, Irida Gallery, Sofia (1999) watercolors from Paris, Ata-Rai Gallery, Sofia
1998 - 12 Marginals, Ata Gallery, Sofia
1993 - Knights: National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia,
В В В В В - "Sweet Waters" Gallery, London.
В Collective exhibitions:
В Official Collection of the Olympic Games, Barbican, London 2012
"A message from the ages. Churches and Monasteries of the Balkans ", Sofia City Art Gallery, (curator Adelina Fileva), 2011
"Tradition and Contemporaryity", Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, (curator Chavdar Popov), 2011
"The Choice", Sofia City Art Gallery (curator Maria Vassileva), 2011
"Atelier. Muses and Models ", Sofia City Art Gallery, (curator Milena Balcheva), 2010
"Crossing points. Artists painted artists", Sofia City Art Gallery, (curator Daniela Chulova-Markova), 2010
В "Faces of Music", Art and Culture Hall, BNR, Sofia (curator Olympia Nikolova), 2010
Contemporary Bulgarian and Cypriot Art, Kafkaridis Theater, Nicosia, Cyprus 2009
Biennale of visual arts August in Art, City Art Gallery, Varna (2008) The Music (Curator Olympia Nikolova), Wittgenstein House, Vienna Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Prague Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Budapest The coasts of Europe (curator O. Nikolova), European Commission, Berlaymont
Building, Brussels (2007) Contemporary Bulgarian Painting: Plastic / Conceptual 2000-2005 (Curators Iskra Trayanova, Chavdar Popov), Narodne Osvetve Center, Bratislava Hofburg, Innsbruck, Austria Pole Porcha, Vienna DAP Gallery, Warsaw Cultural Center "Babylon", Utrecht Thermen am Figurt Museum, Trier,
Germany (2006-2007) International Biennial of Painting, Cairo So do all (curator O. Nikolova), Debut Gallery, Sofia (2006).
В Awards:
Annual National Prize for Painting "Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master" (2012)
Crystal star of Macta Gallery, Sofia (1997)
First Prize, General Art Exhibition Portrait, Pazardzhik (1988)
Diploma, International Painting Competition, KoЕЎice, Slovakia (1983).
В Permanent collections:
National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia City Gallery, Bulgaria
Collection of Dr. Peter Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Art Gallery Bratislava, Slovakia
Art Gallery Szczecin, Poland
Museum of Balkan Art Lemnos, Greece
Collection of the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Official collection of the Olympic Games, China
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