Valentin Vitanov

Artworks of Valentin Vitanov can be found in the National Gallery Bulgaria, as well as in various museums, municipal galleries, public buildings and private collections in Bulgaria, Germany, France, Russia, China, Hungary, Finland, Colombia, Greece, Australasia, Macedonia and so on.

Valentin Vitanov

was born in 1949 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, in the star sign Sagittarius with Ascendant Virgo. This means that he is always in motion and change, physically and mentally. Always to discover something new, to try new things and continue to search with unsaturated curiosity. His entire work of art is characterized by change and seek again. In Bulgaria he has repeatedly tried to avoid "socialist realism" and, like many other Bulgarian artists, has expressed himself in a kind of "magic realism". There are human figures with elements of surrealism, as well as abstracts in the background, because a purely abstract art was banned in Bulgaria at the time.
In his artistic career in Bulgaria, Valentin Vitanov participated in more than 30 National Art Exhibitions, had two personal exhibitions, one of them in the capital Sofia. Two pictures from this exhibition were acquired by the National Gallery Sofia. He was twice the winner of the exhibit...

EDUCATION

Even as a little boy, he astonished the people around him with his imaginative drawings and painted pictures.
At the age of fifteen (1964) he was admitted to the National Art School in Sofia.
For the 15-year-old boy, it was more interesting to discover the big city than to paint the dry type, plaster figures and stuffy animals in school (something he later had to regret). His favorite school subjects were the painting lessons, drawing and painting in nature, working with sound and perspective. He did not care much for the rest of the school subjects. His grades had deteriorated so dramatically that he had to leave school at the end of the second year of school. In 1968 he graduated from high school with a high school diploma in his hometown.

The next two years, which were a kind of education, were the most difficult and darkest for the life of Valentin Vitanov - the military service. There he was tormented and tortured to the limits of his mental and physical powers. Despite some emotional trauma, Valentin has realized that the limits of his body and mind have become much wider, which later helped him overcome difficulties in life more easily.

A year later, he realized that the only thing he wanted was to b...

His artistic path has led to numerous exhibitions and exhibitions in Germany and abroad: Stuttgart, Munich, Meisen, Karlsruhe, Paris, Feldkirch, / Austria /, Sofia / Bulgaria /, Solnok / Hungary /, Internationale Kunstausstellung-Hollfeld, Kunstverein Fellbach, Tain l'Hermitage - France, Weldebräu-Schwetzingen, Gallery of the City of Viernheim, Gallery of the City Möglingen, Gallery of the City - Filderstadt, Gallery of the City - Fellbach, Kunstverein - Feuerbach, Neuer Kunstverein - Regensburg.
At the end of 2009, the anniversary exhibition in the Alte Kelter Fellbach was opened in a hall with not less than 2500 square meters. A great challenge that Valentin Vitanov fulfilled with high professionality.

In 2010, two works of art were purchased at the construction, Methodius chapel Ellwangen mural painting and glass object Eltako for the gardens of company Eltako in Fellbach. He participated in an international art auction in Paris later this year.

2011- Participations- International Exhibition Kunstverein Kulmbach e. V., exhibition "2m²", in SWN Waiblingen, auction Paris, exhibition "Handzeichnung" InterArt Stuttgart, "Short sketched" -VBKW Waiblingen, Open Studio `11, Popcollege Fellbach.

2012 Exhibition participatio...