Doncho Zahariev

I am an artist based in Bulgaria and over the years of my creative experience I have followed a long path – a winding exploration of abstract art and its borders. Sometimes I imagine that all my artworks are landscapes, though emotional landscapes, which I visualise as a long, almost geological evolution of emotional processes. Sometimes the picture would present a peaceful sea embracing the endless depth of the clear sky of a calm mind, sometimes it would present an eruption of the forces born deep into the depths of the human soul. But more often than not, these worlds unveil slowly, as the contact with them becomes more and more intimate. While painting these emotional landscapes, I neither try to expose „the true nature“ of emotions, nor to present them beautifully - my struggle is to present them just as they happened to be in a particular moment.
My artworks are possession of The National Art Gallery of Bulgaria, other public and private galleries in Bulgaria, private collections in Austria, Belgium, Greece, USA, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro, Cyprus, Switzerland, Poland, France, South Korea.

2019 National exhibition “Ludogorie”, Razgrad, Bulgaria
2018 National Competition of Allianz Bulgaria for Painting, Sculpture and Graphics, Sofia, Bulgaria. Award Nominee.
2018 Biennial for Contemporary Fine Arts “Friends of the Sea”, Bourgas, Bulgaria
2018 Regional Competition “Struma 2018”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria. Winner of the Grand Award of UBA (Union of Bulgarian Artists )
2017 National exhibition “Ludogorie”, Razgrad, Bulgaria
2016 Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria – solo exhibition
2016 Quadrennial for Painting from the Balkan Countries “Myths and Legends”, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2016 Biennial for Contemporary Fine Arts “Friends of the Sea”, Bourgas, Bulgaria
2016 National Competition of Allianz Bulgaria for Painting, Sculpture and Graphics, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 Biennial Art of Miniature, Rousse, Bulgaria
2014 Cité Internationale des Arts, exhibition
2014 Cité Internationale des Arts, residency
2014 – Seventh National Biennale for Small Events, Pleven, Bulgaria – First award for painting
2014 – Biennale of Contemporary Bulgarian Fine Arts, Bourgas, Bulgaria.
2014 – National exhibition “Now/Then”, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 – National competition Allianz Bulgaria for painting, sculpture and graphics, Sofia, Bulgaria -...