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Ivan Iliev was born in 1951 in Burgas, Bulgaria.
1969 he moved to Sofia, studied at the Academy of Art, and after graduation worked as a freelance artist,
as well as an Artistic Editor-in-Chief for several years.
Since 1990 he lives and works with his family in Vienna, Austria.
Besides painting, for many years he worked also as a computer graphics artist, realizing visualization projects,
commissioned by the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the topic of Archeology
Member of the “Berufsverband der Bildenden Künstler Österreichs”.
His resume includes numerous groups and solo shows internationally.
Among other:
ANIMA MUNDI, Venice 10-24 May 2024.
Under the skin, Gallery of Biblioteca Angelica-
Piazza di Sant’Agostino- Roma, 2-6 March 2024.
XIV Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso 14-22 2023.
Feuer verzhrt Wasser erhnärt, Wien 2023.
ART Eindhoven, 4-5 February 2023.
EuropArtFair Amsterdam 2021.
Palladio’s Friends, Villa Caldogno 2020.
ARTBOX PROJEKT Miami 2.0 2019.
Biancoscuro Art Exhibition- Contemporary Selected Artist, PAT Pavia, 2018…
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Three cornerstones comprise the primary characteristics of my artistic work: the care for detail, the love of nature and my affinity for late Renaissance and Baroque painting. I am coming across the subjects of my paintings in reality, just around me, every day. The plants that have always fascinated me, are not only nature forms – perfect by design – but like any creation in the world around us, also equivalent with the message of growing and withering, the flowing time. I like to think about all that; it can be found as a main theme in my artworks and the Still life painting is a fine way to tell stories. Many great artists have done it incredibly. All my life I am trying to understand what these greats were after, with the hope of finding my own way.
“Ivan Iliev’s artistic production conjugates, in a fervent poetic synthesis, the scrupulous observation of reality, the noblest artistic tradition of the XVII and XVIII centuries, the chromatic component and its modifications, and the combination of shapes, in a symbolism which expresses a thought or an allegory. His works are not limited to a subtle suggestion to admire the shape, the whole aesthetic structure, or
the mere emotional transportation. They invite the observer to go beyond the known and established, towards a new dimension, rich, suggestive, and evocative”.
(Dr Monica Ferrarini)