Bistra Bakalova

The artist Bistra Bakalova was born in Bulgaria and graduated from the Sliven High School of Art, Bulgaria, then she studied painting on the Faculty of Fine Arts, Veliko Tarnovo State University, Bulgaria. In 1988-1992 she graduated from the Kiev Academy of Art, Ukraine.

She moved to Prague, Czech Republic, in 1992.

The paintings of Bistra Bakalova take us to the enigmatic sensual world of a woman-artist, where spontaniety and irrationality co-exist with systematic thought and sound reasoning, delicacy of feelings interacts with strong will, and life is equal to love. Her works cannot be perceived by sense only; the password to them is sensitivity. Their themes are as if taken from the emotional subconsciousness of the viewer.

Every oil of the young woman-painter is a quest, an attempt to grasp theme, and refracting it through the prism of modern artistic vision, to embody it in colours, lines and hues.

Many of Bistra´s paintings can be found in private collections in Germany, Austria, France, U.S.A., Holland, England, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Australia, Brasil, Hong Kong Japan and many other countries.

“Painting became the part of my being, the form of expression, conversation and way to escape.

My dreams, childhood and memories fade into my pictures. They are my statement, my alter ego.

I want to reach out people who feel my art and perceive it by their sensibility nor rationality.

I account myself as introvert and hence the way to arouse public notice by pictures became matter of fact.”

Exhibitions

1992 First exhibition in Prague, Obecný dum.

Exhibition in Gallery Slovart, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Exhibition in Gallery Rapid, Prague.

1993 Exhibition in Gallery Carolinum, Prague.

Exhibition in Gallery Celetná, Prague.

Exhibition in Gallery Rapid, Prague.

1994 Exhibition in Gallery Carolinum, Prague.

Exhibition in Gallery K&B, Prague.

1995 Exhibition in Gallery Celetná, Prague.

Exhibition in Gralla, Austria.

Exhibition in Gallery Alten Brennerei, Ennigerloh, Germany.

Exhibition in Guttmann Gallery, Bad Pyrmont, Germany.

1996 Exhibition in Aardenburg, Holland.

1997 Exhibition in Gallery Celetná, Prague.

1998 Exhibition in TVM, M ü nchen, Germany.

1999 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland.

2001 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland.

2003 The 2nd European Meeting of Women Painters and Sculptors, Wimereux, France

2003 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland.

2004 Exhibition in Gallery Dans&Art, Geneve, Switzerland.

2004 Participation in Salon d'Autumne, Paris, France.

2006 Exhibition in LeonArt Gallery, Basle, Switzerland.

2006 Participation in Salon d'Autumne, Paris, France.

2007 Open Art 2007 exhibitions in Villepinte and Rueil Malmaison, France.

2008 InterArt 2008 Greifswald, Germany, group exhibition.

2008 The Art Ladies October 2008, LA, U.S.A. , group exhibition.

2009 InterArt II 2009 Greifswald, Germany. , group exhibition.

2009 World Wide New Year Show in Gallery Western, LA, U.S.A.

2009 Solo exhibition in Galerie Alphonse D'Heye, Knokke, Belgium.

2009 …ahh Exhibition at Loft at Liz's Gallery, LA, U.S.A. , group exhibition.