Chavdar Ghiuselev

BIOGRAPHY

Chavdar Ghiuselev was born on March 13, 1961 in the city of Sofia. In 1987, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Illustration and book layout", respectively a bachelor's and master's degree under Prof. Borislav Stoev and Prof. Vladislav Paskalev. In 2016, he defended his doctoral studies on the topic "Construction of space in the book and the theater" at the NBU with the supervisor Prof. Violeta Decheva.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1987, he went to Italy, where he settled in the following years. He works as an illustrator and graphic designer for magazines such as Vanity, Vogue, Max, etc. He does the graphic design of covers and at the same time he is the assistant of Alberto Nodolini in his scenographic projects. He visited the Childen's Book Fair in Bologna several times, where he received offers to work with Italian publishers. Creates 22 Arcana Tarot card illustrations for collector and publisher Piero Aligo. In Bologna, he met the famous Czech illustrator Stefan Zavrel, who organized summer workshops in Veneto, where he lives. He takes part there twice. There are exhibitions in Parma and Milan.
In the mid-1990s, he returned to Bulgaria and continued to work in graphic design. In 1997, he was invited by the director Stefan Moskov to be the scenographer of the theatrical production "The Master and Margarita". The performance has appeared on numerous stages abroad and is the first Bulgarian performance to participate in the official program of the Avignon festival. Later, his scenographic career continued with two adaptations of "Cyrano de Bergerac" by E. Rostan and "The Little Tzaches" by E. T. A. Hoffmann directed by Stephan Moskow at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg. Subsequently, he created over twenty scenographies in various Bulgarian theaters with directors such as Teddy Moskov, Yavor Gurdev, Artel Ritchie, Bina Haralampieva, Kamen Donev, Chris Sharkov and others. Multiple Icarus and Asker nominees, receiving two Icarus and one Asker for Cyrano and How You Want Me.
There are numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Parma, Milan, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Sofia, as well as participation in group exhibitions. He is a graphic designer for the magazine "Christianity and Culture" and the magazine "Culture". He is the author of the graphic layouts of a number of book covers for various publishing houses. From 2011 to 2016, he was a part-time teacher of "Graphic Design", Department of "Cinema, Advertising and Show Business" at NBU, and from 2016 - a full-time teacher.
He is the winner of the "Directa" award, the “Ikar” award (2011) for scenography (Union of Bulgarian Actors) and a nomination for scenography (2011), the “Asker” award (Theatre of the Bulgarian Army. He is a member of the SBH in the "Painting" section).