A short creative biography
2023 Retrospective exhibition in Echternach, Luxembourg Svetoslav Emandiev was born in Sofia
2019 – 2023 Creative period in the city of Echternach, Luxembourg – painting, creating wood carvings, sculptures and sculptural portraits and other works
2018 Wooden sculpture “LEBENSBAUM” (oak wood) (3.60m) for the Mëllerdall Nature Park administration in Beaufort
2016 Concours d’Aquarelles Sosthéne Weis: Prix de la Conférie St. Michel Luxembourg
2014 Participation in the exhibition in the Neumünster Abbey
2013 “Baroque”, painting within the same festival
2012 “Lellingen” and portrait, painting – International Art Festival in Lellingen, Luxembourg
2012 “Wohlis” – wood sculpture 200 cm high, City Square of Echternach
2011 Cover of a book about Echternach
2010 Exhibition “Emandiev and friends” – campaign to support “Televie” in Denzelt gallery, Echternach, Luxembourg
2009 “Emandiev and Herman” – exhibition under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg
2006 – 2008 Cycle of three paintings for the organization “ChrestmoArt”, city of Echternach, Luxembourg
2008 Two picturesque portraits in the gallery of the church house in Echternach
2008 Altar of Saint Willibroord, wood carving and icon painting, height 250 cm in the basilica of the city of Euernach, Luxembourg
2008 – 2009 “Summer Academy” for children at Himmerod Abbey. Three-component program – drawing, color and shape with the aim of three-dimensional spatial thinking.
2007 “Dragon” – summer activities with children within the framework of the cultural program of Luxembourg in the city of Echternach
2007 Four portraits for the bishop’s gallery – city of Trier, Germany
2002 “Saint Bernard of Clairview” – wooden figure, height 120 cm in the same abbey
2000 Restoration of the Abbot’s throne from 1752, wood carving size 400/400 cm (Classicism), Himmerod Abbey
2000 „Winter in Himmerod”, painting, with size 200/300 cm in the Anatist church
1999 Model of the Romanesque monastery Himmerod, wood, size 160/200 cm in the Himmerod Abbey Museum, Germany
1994 Cycle of paintings “Tuareg”, within the same cultural exchange1995 – “Tree of Life” – 360/185 cm wood carving panel in the Cultural Hall of the city of Pütlingen, Germany
1993 Exhibitions in Bern Kastel (Moselle) and Saarbrücken (Saaraland) – Germany, Orvaux (Britain) – France. Leads a course with amateur artists in Heusweiler, Germany
Working with amateur artists in the city of Saint-Michel-sur-Orger, France, within the cultural exchange between the cities of Pütlingen and Saint-Michel-sur-Orger.
1992 At the invitation of the city of Pütlingen, Germany, he worked for 6 months in a studio provided by the city. Exhibitions in the cities of Endenkoben, Heusweiler, Pütlingen.
1991 At the invitation of the “Friends of Bulgaria” organization from the city of Pütlingen, Germany – an exhibition in the city of the same name
1984 Carving panel “Cyril and Methodius” with dimensions 600 cm/200 cm in the 18th high school, Sofia
1981 -1990 Worked as a designer and organized exhibitions
1976 -1981 Graduated from the Sofia Art Academy
1970 -1973 Studied at SPTU artistic crafts, specialty woodcarving
1955 Svetoslav Emandiev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria