REFLECTIONS ... | Stoyan Tsanev (1946–2019)
Exhibition dedicated to the 80th birth anniversary of the artist Stoyan Tsanev (1946–2019)
17 March – 13 April 2026
Exhibition opening: 17 March 2026 (Tuesday), 6:00 pm
Academia Gallery, 1 Shipka Street, Sofia
The exhibition Reflections… is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the artist Stoyan Tsanev (1946–2019), who left a bright mark on both Bulgarian and world visual art. The exhibition presents his works in the fields of painting, graphics and ceramics, created between the 1980s of the 20th century and the second decade of the 21st century. Stoyan Tsanev's reflections on time and space, on the beginning, on the "birth of great things" define his plastic style, "cleansed of all details", without giving an answer to what excites the artist. Every viewer should discover it for themselves, as artist says: "If a person has my sensitivity, they will inevitably understand me."
Artworks by Stoyan Tsanev are property of: National Gallery, Sofia; Sofia City Art Gallery; Graphic Cabinet, Varna; art Galleries in Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Stara Zagora, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Sliven, Dobrich and other Bulgarian cities; National Fund for Fine Arts and National Library in Paris, France; Art Dialogue Collection, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Kuopio, Finland; Museum of Modern Art, Delhi, India; National Art Gallery, Oslo, Norway; National Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Museum of Modern Art, Fredrikstad, Norway; Museum of Fine Arts "A.S. Pushkin", Moscow, Russia; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Library of Congress, Washington, USA; New Gallery – Samlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany; Museum of Modern Graphics, Cairo, Egypt; Bank Luxembourg.
Stoyan Tsanev is featured in The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Art, London (1981) and Contemporary Art Print of the World, Kyoto (1989).
Participations internationally
● 1978 – Art’78, Washington, USA; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Krakow, Poland; Intergrafika, Katowice, Poland. ● 1979 – Biennial of Graphic Arts, Heidelberg, Germany; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Darmstadt, Germany; Art 11’80, Basel, Switzerland; Intergrafika, Berlin, Germany; Biennial of Graphic Arts, São Paulo, Brazil; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad, Norway; Triennial of Graphic Arts, Frechen, Germany. ● 1981 – Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Varna, Bulgaria; Triennial of European Graphic Arts, Grado, Italy; Biennial of European Graphic Arts, Baden-Baden, Germany. ● 1982 – Art 13’82, Basel, Switzerland; Biennial of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad, Norway. ● 1983 – Biennial of Graphics, Varna, Bulgaria; Balkan Biennial of Arts, Bucharest, Romania; Triennial of Graphics, Frechen, Germany; Premio Internazionale, Biella, Italy; Biennial of Graphics, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. ● 1984 – Art Expo, New York, USA; Intergrafica, Berlin, Germany; Biennial of Graphics, Fredrikstad, Norway; Biennial of Graphics, São Paulo, Brazil. ● 1985 – Biennial of Graphics, Listowel, Ireland; Biennial of Graphics, Varna, Bulgaria; Biennial of Graphics, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. ● 1986 – Biennial of Graphics, Fredrikstad, Norway; Premio de Grabado “Massimo Ramos”, Ferrol, Spain; Triennial of Graphics, Frechen, Germany; Salon d’Automne, Paris, France; Independent Exhibition of Graphics, Kanagawa, Japan. ● 1987 – Art’87, Basel, Switzerland; Triennial of European Graphics, Grado, Italy; Premio Internationale, Biella, Italy; HangaAnhalt, Tokyo, Japan; Biennial of Graphics, Liège, Belgium; Biennial of Graphics, Varna, Bulgaria. ● 1989 – Biennial of Graphics, Grenoble, France; Biennial of Graphics, Liège, Belgium. ● 1990 – Biennial of Graphics, Fredrikstad, Norway; Triennial of Creative Graphics, Helsinki, Finland. ● 1991 – Biennial of Graphics, Varna, Bulgaria. ● 1998 – Biennial of Graphics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Awards
● 1979 – Award from the Biennial of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria ● 1979 and 1988 – Award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists for graphics named after Veselin Staykov ● 1981 and 1989 – Award from the Biennial of Graphics, Varna, Bulgaria ● 2007 – Zachary Zograf National Award for Painting, Bulgaria
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