Stanimir Videv

Stanimir Videv is among the brightest representatives of Bulgarian abstract painting and is one of the leading artists in Plovdiv, where he lives and works. He is born on March 27, 1957. Graduated from the art high school in the city of Kazanlak in 1976. He completed his higher education in 1984, majoring in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Dobri Dobrev. He has been a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1985, and of the Union of Plovdiv Artists since 1986. His first solo exhibition was in 1986 in the city of Plovdiv, part of the National Autumn Exhibitions.

Stanimir Videv has presented more than 30 solo exhibitions, and his paintings are owned by the National Art Gallery, museums and private collections in Bulgaria, Germany, England, Spain, Turkey, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Israel, USA, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg , Serbia, New Zealand, including that of Belgian entrepreneur and connoisseur Hugo Wooten.

Participated in collective exhibitions of Bulgarian art in countries such as France, Switzerland, Russia, Holland, Germany, Greece, Malta, Italy, Belgium and China, also took part in international art fairs - Expo Art in Los Angeles (1991) , Euro Art in Geneva (1993), Turkey (2009) He has numerous participations in general exhibitions and plein airs (Vienna - Austria, Istanbul - Turkey, Paris - France, Luxembourg and Tel Aviv - Israel, Malta, Switzerland, Greece, USA)

 He is the winner of a number of awards:

- "Plovdiv" award for 1997 and 2007

- "Sword of Rompheus" award for 1997,

- the prize of the Union of Plovdiv Artists for 1986, 1987 and 1997.

- "Vasil Levski" National Award for 1987

- the award of the "Dyakov" gallery for 1996.

- First prize for painting, "Miniart", Ruse 2009

- prize of the municipality of Pleven at the "Fifth Biennial of Small Forms", 2010.

- Painting Prize, Pöchlarn, Austria 2014