Rumen Skorchev, Pandora` s Box VI, 2000, Lithograph, 52 x 38 cm.

Born October 7th 1932 in the town of Targovishte.
1950 – 1952 – Worked in the Pernik mines.
1952 – 1957 – Studied and graduated as a park-engineer.
1958 – 1964 – Studied and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia where he majored in book illustration and was later made professor in 1984.
1979 – Scholarship student of the Koryu Kikin Japanese Foundation.
1982 and 1994 – His illustrations were included in the ‘Who`s Who in Graphic Art’, dedicated to 330 contemporary graphic artists.
1990 – His works were included in the two-volume publication of 300 contemporary graphic artists, issued by the International Art Center in Kyoto, Japan.

Holds over 40 international and national awards, the most important of which are:

1970 Gold medal at the II International Print Biennale, Florence, Italy;
1972,1975 First Prize for the Best Childrens’ Illustration, Bulgaria;
1973 Gold medal, IV Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Slovakia;
1974 Grand Prix, IV Triennale of Drawing in Wroclaw, Poland;
1974,1987 Special Annual Award for Graphic Art in Bulgaria;
1978 Award of the Ministry of Culture of Romania at the II International Triennale of Balkan states, Bucharest;
1982 Award of the International Print Biennale in Listowel, Ireland;
1989 Silver Medal, International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany.

Solo Exhibitions

Langsam Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Losguardo Gallery, Torino, Italy; Bi Gallery, Biella, Italy; National Gallery for Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq; 2016 Gallery, Neuchatel, Switzerland; Edison Gallery, The Hague, the Netherlands; Alex Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Alfacs Gallery, New Delhi, India; Au Virage Gallery, Seprais, Switzerland; Kreditbank, Luxemburg; Dordrechtsmuseum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; Curacao Museum, Curacao, Dutch Antilles; Standard Chartered Bank, Lusaka, Zambia; Windobona Gallery, Bad Kissingen, Germany; Bayerishe Handelsbank, Munich, Germany; Hefner Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Chirobe Gallery and UNIDO Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Sofia City Art Gallery, Alexander Gallery, Irida Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since 1969 he has taken part in the following international biennials, triennials and exhibitions of printmaking, drawing and illustration: Ljubljana, Slovenia; Krakow, Poland; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Biella, Florence and Grado, Italy; Heidelberg and Frechen, Germany; Ibiza, Spain; Athens, Greece; Fredrikstad, Norway; Brno, Czech Republic; Listowel, Ireland; Intergrafica, Berlin, Germany; Balkan Biennale, Bucharest, Romania; Tokyo and Kochi, Japan; New Delhi, India; Milleuse and Strasbourg, France; Varna and Sofia, Bulgaria; Katowice, Poland; Juan Miro Drawing Biennale, Barcelona, Spain; Rieka and Pristina, Yugoslavia; Triennale of Drawing, Wroclaw, Poland; Triennale of Fine Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; International Biennale of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria; XXI Prix international d`Art contemporain, Monte Carlo; FIERA International Book Fair, Bologna, Italy; Biennale of illustration BIB, Bratislava, Slovenia; International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany; Triennale of drawing RACIBORZ – 2000, Poland; Maximo Ramos competition, Spain; Art `87, Basel, Switzerland; International Graphic Art Exhibition, Vienna, Austria.

Group exhibitions: Gekaso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Alzaia Gallery, Rome, Italy; ‘Bulgarian Graphics’ exhibition, Hoenefos, Norway; Edisson Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands; The House of the Artists, Moscow, Russia; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; Gulbenkinyan Foundation Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; International Academy for Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy; Museum for Italian Art, Lima, Peru; Galerie der Kuenstler, Munich, Germany; Progress Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; House Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria; Hefner Gallery and The National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Gallery of Venezuelan Artists, Caracas, Venezuela; Dresdner Bank, Bonn, Germany; Kuenstlerhaus, Ludwig Collection, Vienna, Austria; International Art Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany.

His works are in the possession of museums, galleries and private collections, the more important of which being:

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; Art Dialogue Foundation, Paris, France; Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris; City Museum, Goettingen, Germany; Dordrechtsmuseum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; City Museum, Fredrikstad, Norway; City Museum, Moutier, Switzerland; The Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; National Gallery, Washington, USA; Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Cairo, Egypt; National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; Sofia City Art Gallery, all regional art galleries in Bulgaria.

 

Rumen Skorchev, Pandora` s Box VIII, 2001, Lithograph, 38 x 54 cm.