Art is my life— Bella Volen is a professional visual artist and has a masters gergee in painting. She works with different medias as cooks use different flavors. Her focus is mainly in painting, murals, photography based on human transformations through body painting, but she does also theatre art 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. CURRICULUM VITAE Bella Volen Contact: www.bella-volen.com Awards: Pepsi Body Painting Award 2010- 1st prize Shanghai Body Painting Champion 2009- 1st prize Stockholm Body Painting Champion 2008– 1st prize World Body Painting Fluoro Champion 2006 – 1st prize Swiss Body Painting Day 2006 and 2009– 1st prizeSome facts: Teacher at the World Body Painting Academy - body painting, composition, colour theory,history of body painting Member of the World Body Painting Association and IG Bildende Kunst Jury Member German Body Painting Festival 2010 Jury Member World Body Painting Festival 2009 Jury Member: Asian Bodypainting Awards - World Bodypainting Festival 1/2010 Diploma, master degree in painting 2003-2010 Study of painting at the University for Applied Arts, Vienna (Prof. Wolfgang April 2000 Art exchange at the City of Bath College, UK. 1996-2001 Ilia Petrov National High School for Fine Arts (special subject: painting), 1995-1996 Fine arts courses for drawing, painting and composition (Prof. Ganovski and Exhibitions: Solo echibitions: 1/2010 The Time Arrow, Mental & Physical Transformations, Diploma exhibition 1- 7/ 2005 Kapsh CarrierCom AG , Vienna, Austria Group exhibitions: 6/2009 Essence 09, Vienna, Austria 11/2008 Art Advent Calender, City hall, Vienna, Austria 11/2008 Using Foto, Praterstrasse 15, Month of the photography, Vienna, Austria 4/ 2008 Bilder im Birkenwald, wirken bald, Praterstrasse 15, Vienna, Austria 11/2007 Sailing for the Olympics, Art Museum Tsing Tao, China 4/ 2007 Cross Borders, Masc Foundation /Vienna Austria 4/ 2007 The colors of Bulgaria, Museum Friedrichshof, Austria 6/ 2006 Essence 06, Mak Museum Vienna, Austria 6/ 2006 Q_Spectacle, Orth an der Donau, Austria 5/ 2006 Performaty Goes Business, Anorak,Vienna, Austria 3/ 2006 The Tree Of Life, Society of the Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria 7/2005 Body Painting Another Expression, Culture house, Seeboden, Austria 7/2005 Déjà Vu, Kunst Quartier Vienna, Austria 6/2005 Malstrom, University for Applied Arts Vienna, Austria 3/2003 Gallery Sais, Sofia, Bulgaria 12/2002 The Time, Society of the Bulgarian Artists, Sofia (13 works included), Bulgaria 6/2001 Diploma exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria 5/2001 National home of the Culture Sofia, Bulgaria 6/2000 Euro-Bulgarian Culture Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria 4/2000 The Lighthouse and the Storm, Bath, England 3/1999 Sofia City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 5/1998 Gallery X-S, Sofia, Bulgaria
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