The International Beşiktaş Stone Sculpture Symposium has taken place since the year 2008, organised by the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and on behalf of the Beşiktaş Municipality. The aim of the symposium is to contribute to Beşiktaş with quality works of art.
No works are entered for Velislav Minekov's participation at the II International Sculpture Symposium Besiktash- Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
Velislav Minekov graduated sculpture in 1986 at the Art Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria, in the class of Dimitar Daskalov. He specialized metal design in Hamburg with Prof. Jürgen Birthe. Velislav Minekov is currently professor in the specialty "Metal" at the Art Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is son of the famous bulgarian coryphaeus in monumental sculpture Velichko Minekov.
Prof. Velislav Minekov deals primarily with sculpture and metal design. He helped in the organisation of two exhibitions of his students- "Scrap" (2007) and "Living in metal" (2010).
Prof. Velislav Minekov has solo exhibitions in Turkey and Germany. He participated in numerous international sculpture symposiums and competitions.
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