Лични данни и образование
Born on 9 February 1957 in the village of Zmeyno, Omurtag municipality. 1982 — graduated in Painting from St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo.
Lives and works in Varna and Zmeyno.
Избрани самостоятелни изложби
More than 20 solo exhibitions in Varna, Sofia, Ruse, Heidelberg, Moscow and the Netherlands, including:
2025 — Astry Gallery, Sofia
2024 — “Inspired”, Le Papillon Art Gallery, Varna
2022 — Astry Gallery, Sofia
2022 — Georgi Velchev Art Museum, Atelier Georgi Velchev Hall, Varna
2017 — Anniversary retrospective (painting, printmaking, sculpture), Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery, Varna
2012 — BulArt Gallery, Varna
1999 — Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands
1989 — Heidelberg, Germany
1984 — First solo exhibition
Избрани общи и колективни изложби
Group shows in Europe and Canada, including more than ten editions of the International Print Biennial in Varna and exhibitions in Maastricht, Ljubljana and Bitola.
2026 — “Sea”, Georgi Velchev Art Museum, Varna 2026 — “The Artists of Vulkan”, Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery, Varna
2022, 2024 — Annual exhibitions of the Georgi Velchev Art Museum, Varna
2019, 2024 — “Summer Walk along the Largo”, Largo Art Gallery, Varna
2022 — “Art Reflection Varna – Vulkan”, Art Salon of Radio Varna
1985 — Painting-and-music performance, Archaeological Museum, Varna
Произведенията на автора се намират в
National Art Gallery, Sofia;
Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery, Varna;
City Art Gallery, Burgas;
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow;
Private collections in Bulgaria, Russia, the USA, Spain, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Japan.
Професионален статус
Freelance artist — painting, printmaking, sculpture. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Painting section.
“Varna” Award (2015) for establishing high artistic values in contemporary Bulgarian painting.
Критика
“With his deeply sensuous nature and an almost super-intuitive feeling, Vasil Vasilev blends the earthly and the heavenly with remarkable ease, turning them in the end into a spiritual and captivating painterly matter.” — Rumen Serafimov, art historian
“Vasil Vasilev does not paint what can be seen; he tries to look behind it — to use the more precise word, beyond it.” — Vladimir Zarev, writer
“For Vasil N. Vasilev these are the foundations — the light of the sacred and the shadow of the bodily.” — Vihra Pesheva, Astry Gallery
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Interviews and press:
Cherno More (2015)
BNR – Radio Varna (2017)
BNR (2022)
Art Varna (2022)
Utro Ruse (2022)
Impressio / BTA (2024)
Pro News Dobrich (2025)
Full list: vasilv.art/en/media
От автора
“I search for myself, for people, for time, for space and for God in my work.”
“I love yellow very much! Because it is light! And light is a good thing…”
