Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, June 18, 2022: Bella Volen, a Bulgarian interdisciplinary visual artist (#1599)

Bella Volen (1982) is a Vienna-based professional interdisciplinary visual artist, and gallery owner, who works worldwide as an artist and art instructor.

Coming from an established arts family in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bella was raised as a third and sixth-generation artist among painters, sculptors, dancers, and poets.

Her natural talent was supported with thirteen years of formal study in some of the most prestigious art institutes including the fine arts secondary school and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In 2003 Bella moved to Vienna, where she has studied painting at the University of Applied Arts.

Her focus is mainly on canvas painting, human transformations through body painting, photography, and video. They are often connected and presented in a melting pot of all these elements through augmented reality. It is about a total work of art and meeting point of classical art and modern digital technology. A painting can be scanned with an augmented reality application (Artivive) and the observer sees an art video and music connected to the painting. Some of the canvas paintings are also ChromaDepth 3D paintings. Through the special Chroma Depth technology and Chroma Depth 3D glasses, the painting becomes multi-dimensional.

Another important part of her work is commission illustrations, murals, performance, installations. Furthermore, she has experience with stage design and stage costumes.

In 2009 after a trip to Shanghai, Bella came up with an idea and this idea became a new art form and direction called: Paintloon- there where balloon sculpting meets paint. The result is painted balloon sculptures or costumes, often combined with LED light.

Bella has a master's degree in painting and has been awarded 18 prizes at competitions all around the world, a lecturer at the World Bodypainting Academy, judge, and curator of projects and competitions.

Since 1998 her works have been exhibited in Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, England, China, South Korea, Thailand, USA, and Venezuela.
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