About Me
Biography:
The artist Bistra Bakalova was born in Bulgaria and graduated from the Sliven High School of Art, Bulgaria, then she studied painting on the Faculty of Fine Arts, Veliko Tarnovo State University, Bulgaria. In 1988-1992 she graduated from the Kiev Academy of Art, Ukraine.
She moved to Prague, Czech Republic, in 1992.
The paintings of Bistra Bakalova take us to the enigmatic sensual world of a woman-artist, where spontaniety and irrationality co-exist with systematic thought and sound reasoning, delicacy of feelings interacts with strong will, and life is equal to love. Her works cannot be perceived by sense only; the password to them is sensitivity. Their themes are as if taken from the emotional subconsciousness of the viewer.
Every oil of the woman-painter is a quest, an attempt to grasp theme, and refracting it through the prism of modern artistic vision, to embody it in colours, lines and hues.
Many of Bistra´s paintings can be found in private collections in Germany, Austria, France, U.S.A., Holland, England, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Australia, Brasil, Hong Kong Japan and many other countries.
“Painting became the part of my being, the form of expression, conversation and way to escape.
My dreams, childhood and memories fade into my pictures. They are my statement, my alter ego.
I want to reach out people who feel my art and perceive it by their sensibility nor rationality.
I account myself as introvert and hence the way to arouse public notice by pictures became matter of fact.”
Exhibitions
1992 First exhibition in Prague, Obecný dům
Exhibition in Gallery Slovart, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Exhibition in Gallery Rapid, Prague
1993 Exhibition in Gallery Carolinum, Prague
1994 Exhibition in Gallery Carolinum, Prague
Exhibition in Gallery K&B, Prague
1995 Exhibition in Gralla, Austria
Exhibition in Gallery Alten Brennerei, Ennigerloh, Germany
Exhibition in Guttmann Gallery, Bad Pyrmont, Germany
1996 Exhibition in Aardenburg, Holland
1997 Exhibition in Gallery Celetná, Prague
1998 Exhibition in TVM, München, Germany
1999 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
2001 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
2003 The 2nd European Meeting of Women Painters and Sculptors, Wimereux, France
2003 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
2004 Exhibition in Gallery Dans&Art, Geneve, Switzerland
2004 Participation in Salon d’Autumne, Paris, France
2006 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
2006 Participation in Salon d’Autumne, Paris, France
2007 Open Art 2007 exhibitions in Villepinte and Rueil Malmaison, France
2008 InterArt 2008 Greifswald, Germany, group exhibition
2008 The Art Ladies October 2008, LA, U.S.A.
2009 Solo Exhibition in Gallery Alphonse D’Heye in Knokke, Belgium
2010 InterArt 2010 Greifswald, Germany, group exhibition
2011 Solo exhibition in Gallery Heubar, Basel, Switzerland
2011 Group exhibition in gallery “Kleiner Prinz” Baden Baden, Germany
2011 Group exhibition in gallery “Boehner” Mannheim, Germany
2012 ArtSalon in Gallery DOX, Prague
2012 “Kunst an der muba”, Basel, Switzerland
2012 InterArt 2012 Greifswald, Germany, group exhibition
2013 “Kunst an der muba”, Basel, SwitzerlandYou can highlight important information or announcements in text like this.
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