Milko Bozhkov

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Biography

Born 1953 in Resen, Bulgaria, Milko Bozhkov studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia. Milko Bozhkov works in several different fields: drawing, book design, color lithography and painting. He has had numerious solo exhibitions at home and abroad and has taken part in many international exhibitions of Bulgarian art.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

MARS, 2025 Solo exhibition

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The artist paints real Martian landscapes inspired by photographs taken by Mars rovers. Yet he populates his Red Planet with images that hold personal meaning for him: the figure of the god Mars from Diego Velázquez’s painting; Van Gogh’s yellow chair, accompanied by the pipe from his house in Arles; the embroidered figures of two lovers on his grandmother’s decorative wall hanging; his first dog… Naive, romantic and human. As Milko Bozhkov says, “Wherever we go—whether to another planet or another city—we always look for things we recognise.”