The Vazrazdane art gallery, a member of the National community centre “Vazrazdane” has been established in 5.IX.1995 by the idea of the community centre's secretary Dimitar Atanasov, a writer and journalist.
The team Krassi Aleksieva and Simeon ( Sim ) Aleksiev run the art gallery. Since its third year it is specialized on theme “The BODY”, as about 70 percents of the exhibitions correspond more or less to the theme.
It is presented only the contemporary pictorial and plastic art. Pronounced artists are invited as well as quite young and unknown ones. Realistic, super-new, photorealistic, symbolic and surrealistic, naive, primitive and etc. paintings thoroughly exhibited. There is a run on authors, creating modern figurative art, especially depicting the body.

The graphic artists are appreciated. There are a lot of exhibitions with graphic works, drawings and illustrations.

The art gallery exerts a lot of work and efforts in publishing of catalogues and albums that will be a useful source of knowledge for the future generations interested in our fine art nowadays.

In the gallery depot there is, maintained a rare and diverse collection of oil paintings, graphic works and drawings, sculptures. The collection on theme “ The BODY ” is especially stunning .

Since 2001 the art gallery gives “Media”prize for art-journalism- a diploma, made by assoc. prof. Vladimir Genadiev and also a picture from artist, who works with gallery.

 

Since 2005 the art gallery gives prize “Silver Vazrazdane” for attainment in contemporary pictorial and plastic art. The prize is a sculpture made by prof. Georgy Chapkanov – Chapp. The winner to this moment are: Georgy Yorganov, Dimitar Voinov- junior, Dimitar Lalev, Dimitar Rashkov, prof. Emil Popov, Matey Mateev, prof. Nikolai Maistorov, assoc. prof. Vladimir Genadiev, and Georgi Chapkanov has a prize about total creation work – a special sculpture made by Dimitar Rashkov.

In 2006 the art gallery Vazrazdane takes a first prize in The Night of Galleries and museums - Plovdiv, which is constituted by KCM – Plovdiv.

 

Interesting facts about Vazrazdane gallery:

  • In period September 1995- September 2010 are opened over 350 exhibitions, 23 in every year.

  • 8600 piece of art have been shown.

  • Visitors to this moment – more than 93 000 .

  • The thirty and six painters have debuted in the gallery.

  • Over 100 artists are showed for the first time in Plovdiv.