Veselin Gospodinov — “Painting”

4 – 23 November 2025

Opening: 4 November 2025, 6:00 PM

After more than three decades of teaching and living in Germany, Veselin Gospodinov returns to Bulgaria with the exhibition “Painting” — a story about his path from expressive figuration and the musical emotion of youth to realism, in which the form itself becomes content.

In the exhibition, the author presents figurative painting, portraits and landscapes. Attention to detail, light and texture is a characteristic feature of his style. Each canvas is the result of continuous work on a model that the artist himself photographs — a striving for accuracy, but also for a deeply personal experience.

At the beginning of his creative path, Gospodinov was strongly influenced by classical music and opera. His early paintings are expressive, emotional, full of movement — people, ballet, opera images, in which music becomes color and rhythm. Influenced by the harmony in the work of Peter Popov and by the plastic expressiveness of Volodya Kenarev, he builds his own inner and creative profile.

His move to Germany in the early 1990s marks a decisive change. Immersed in a different cultural environment and the temptations of new trends, Gospodinov turns to realism — a style in which he finds the fullest expression of his essence. “Even in the most perfect realistic work, the artist’s handwriting is always visible,” he says.

For Gospodinov, form is convincing enough to turn into meaning. He works with independence and confidence, but highly values ​​the feedback he receives from his students in Germany.

Music remains his eternal companion. And as he often did in Germany, so in Ruse on November 4, the opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by a performance by the violin duo “Gogovi” to create complete harmony between painting and music.

The exhibition “Painting” is an invitation to the viewer to look at reality – through the eyes of an artist who recreates it with respect, patience and deep understanding. Each canvas by Veselin Gospodinov is a meeting between art and contemplation, between the visible and the invisible.