Stanislav Pamukchiev was born in Sofia in 1953. He studied mural painting at the National Academy of Art in the Bulgarian capital, graduating in 1979. Since 1996, he has been a professor at this same institution.
Pamukchiev’s art is grounded in life’s energetic foundation. As such, his artworks interact with, attain and channel this energy and preserve it as a receptacle. The purpose of this conceptualisation is to remind the viewer of the incompleteness of the world we live in, partly due to our daily disconnection with our surroundings. Therefore, art must regain its metaphysical function in the field of contemporary culture.
Diverse in style and medium, Pamukchiev’s voluminous corpus of paintings, drawings, sculpture objects and installations sometimes anticipated, paralleled or followed the development of contemporary art on the eastern side of the Berlin wall prior to and in the wake of its collapse, especially in Bulgaria. Monochrome painting in particular was among Pamukchiev’s favoured tools for depicting the energetic potential of artworks and artistic objects.
Among his recent group exhibitions one can single out: Hangzhou, China (2014); Sculpture and Object, Bratislava, Slovakia (2011); Collection of the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium (2011); Arena Vestfossen, Oslo, Norway; Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Koblenz, Germany (2008). He has participated in the following art festivals and fairs: Art Zurich, Switzerland; Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden; Art Fest, Strasbourg, France; Lineart, Gent, Belgium; Miart, Milan, Italy; Art Junction, Cannes, France; Art Fest, Basel, Switzerland. He was the winner of the First Class Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius in 2016, the national Vladimir Dimitrov – Maistora Award in 2015, the Zahari Zograph Award in 2004 and the Grand Prix of International Painting Triennial, Sofia in 1996.
Pamukchiev lives and works in Sofia.
