jh	Mag.art BELLA VOLEN VISUAL ARTIST

Art is my life -
My dreams, my hopes, my escape route, my breath, my gift, my sweetest everything.
Beginning and end, chaos and harmony
All that I need, all that I want
The only thing always with me, the only thing which can`t hurt me.
Art can`t make me suffer, it only makes me happy
Art—it is in me and I am in it.

BIO

Bella Volen is a professional visual artist and has a masters degree in painting. She works with different medias as cooks use different flavors. Her focus is mainly in canvas painting, human transformations through body painting, but she does also murals, performance, installations, stage design, stage costumes and book illustrations.

Bella has won many international body painting and fine art awards, lives in Vienna, Austria and works world wide as an artist and art instructor.

She comes from an established arts family in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, and was raised among painters, sculptors, dancers and poets.

Her natural talent was supported with thirteen years of formal study in some of the most prestigious art institutes including the fine arts secondary school and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, followed by six and half years painting study in Vienna.

In 2009 Bella came up with an idea and with the help of the amazing balloon designer and actor Guido Verhoef this idea became a new art form and direction : Paintloon

In Dallas, march 2011, Craig Tracy, Filippo Ioco and Bella Volen founded I-FAB: International Fine Art Bodypainting Association.

In 2011 Bella is presenting the first Fine Art Body Painting Award at the World Body Painting Festival.

Since 2010 Bella and a few of her art partners work on big projects in a new art group called: CREACHIEFS

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Bella Volen
Contact: www.bella-volen.com
e-mail: info [at] bella-volen.com
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives in Vienna, Austria, works worldwide

Studio:

Palais Palffy, Museum of Fantastic Realism

Josefsplatz 6, Vienna 1010

Austria

Education:

Awards:

Prize of Excellence/ Award of Distinction from ART NOW 3: The 3rd Annual Juried Contemporary Art Online Competition. The award is one-page in " Art in Vogue 100 Contemporary Artists" a quality art book in Masters of Today series. The book will be released in 2011 in print run of 25,000 copies.

Samui Body Painting Champion, Thailand 2011- 1st prize

Pepsi Body Painting Master, Italy 2010 - 1st prize

Shanghai Body Painting Champion, China 2009 - 1st prize

MIST Stockholm Body Painting Champion, Sweden 2008 - 1st prize

World Body Painting Fluoro Champion, Austria 2006 - 1st prize

Judge:

Jury Member Australian Bodyart Awards, 2012, Daylesford, Australia

Jury Member Beauty Forum Munich, Bodypainting competition 2011, Germany

Jury Member Fine Art Body Painting Award, World Body Painting Festival 2011, Austria

Jury Member North American Body Painting Championship 2011, USA

Jury Member International Body Painting Festival 2010, Germany

Jury Member World Body Painting Festival 2009, Austria

Jury Member World Bodypainting Festival ASIA 2008, Daegu / South Korea

Jury Member: Milan Body Art Contest 2008, Italy

Art Instructor:

Workshops at the Fantastic Realism Academy, Fantastic Museum, Palais Palffy, Vienna

Teacher at the World Body Painting Academy - composition, colour theory, history of body painting, body painting

Teacher at Academy Geras: Contemporary objective painting

Membership:

World Body Painting Association

IG Bildende Kunst

CREACHIEFS

I-FAB- Fine Art Body Painting Association

Book publications:

2008- Body Painting Transformations by Bella Volen

2012- The Art of Body Painting, The Netherlands
2011- Art in Vogue 100 Contemporary Artists, Masters of Today, UK
2011- Art Book Bulgaria 2010, Bulgaria ( 21 pages profile included)
2011- World Art Dictionary, USA
2011- Body Art Fashion, by Karala B, Austria
2008- Bringing Body Painting to Life, Austria

many book illustrations ( photos coming up soon)

Exhibitions:

Solo echibitions:

Group exhibitions: