Bekir Smolski

Bekir Smolski (Belarus, 1966) - a professional artist working in different aspects of artistic creation: painting, stained glass, mosaic, frescoes and sgrafitto.
Lives and works in Austria since 2002.
His artworks are located in private collections in USA, Austria, Germany, Italy, France and other countries.
During 2014-2019 was represented by Agora Gallery in NY, USA, with successful exhibitions and sales of the artworks.

Light, with its transformations and changeability, variety of forms, uncommonness of structure has always been the source of inspiration for me. There are a few good examples of it throughout the centuries – ranging from the elegant play of light in the paintings of Dutch artists of the seventeenth century to the harsh, at times exaggerated, chiaroscuro in the work of some contemporary artists.
“If I look at the history of art, I was definitely inspired by the romantic painter William Turner (1775-1851). I am impressed by the glorifying deepness of his landscapes and by magnificent light, which is moving within the space of his paintings. And definitely my admiration of Light was also transferred into my paintings and into my passion of creating stained glass objects.
My irreal landscape at the paintin...

Graduated from Minsk College of Art (Belarus) and from Belarusian Academy of Art, Department of Monumental-Decorative Art.

- "Pathways", Agora Gallery, New York, USA (2017);
- "Ode and die Freude", Austria (2016);
- "Landscapes of the Minds", Agora Gallery, New York, USA (2016);
- “Christmas Expo”, Galleria360, Florence, Italy (2015);
- “The Illusion of Reality“, Galleria De Marchi, Bologna, Italy (2014);
- “The Substance of Form“ Agora Gallery, New York, USA (2014);
- "Artspace.by", Zagreb, Croatia (2013);
- "Kunstraum.by", Vienna, Austria (2013);
- Art Project "DERU 2012" Jena, Germany (2012);
- “The Course of Light”, Gallery Academy, Belarusian Academy of Art, Minsk, Belarus (2011);
- “Sommer Impressionen”, Gallery Meduna, Vienna, Austria (2011);
-“Das Fliessen des Lichtes“, Gallery Time, Vienna, Austria (2010);
- “Im verzauberten Eisland”, Gallery Meduna, Vienna, Austria (2009);
- Gallery ART PRESENT, Paris, France (2008);
- exhibition of stained-glass design light objects. Altes Rathaus, Vienna, Austria (2005);
- “Christmas rendezvous”. Gallery “Glasnost”, Vienna, Austria (2005);
- “Made in Stein”. Salzburg, Austria (2005);
- Painting exhibition. Art Club, Vienna International Center. Vienna, Austria (2002 and 2004);
- Gallery “The Timmel Collection“, Florida, USA (2000);
- “The Light of the Black Star”, Gallery “Master”, M...