This two-minute video about the illustration of THE ORIGINAL BAMBIE was shot in the studio of Alenka Sottler by director Igor Matijević. It was created at the request of Becca Kantor, editor of the literary magazine PAPER BRIGADE in New York, to air on the web launch of the new issue.
»Today I received the final proofs for the Bambi book from Princeton, and I was stunned by your drawings. Collaborating with you in my old, old age of 84 has brought me great joy, and who knows, perhaps there will be other projects that we can undertake together.«
prof. Jack Zipes, Writer, Artist, Thinker, Storyteller
Biography
After graduation and post-graduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied painting, she was left with a student prize and small poetry collections in her pocket, which became her great love. At that time, she did not fully understand how much words and association with poets and writers meant to her. She made pictures from paper that no one bought. In order to at least try to understand herself and society, she secretly began attending lectures on the sociology of culture. But in order to actually understand herself and society, she needed the next thirty years of study - which she has not finished to this day.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Bežigrajska Gallery 1, exhibition of paintings, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1986
Youth Hall Gallery Skopje, exhibition of paintings, Skopje, Macedonia / Youth Hall Gallery Sarajevo, exhibition of paintings, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
1987
Petek Gallery, exhibition of paintings, Ribnica, Slovenia / DSLU Gallery, exhibition of paintings, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1990
TG Gallery, exhibition of paintings, Trieste, Italy
2000
Rotovž Gallery, exhibition of illustrations, Maribor, Slovenia
2006
General Consulate of Slovenia, exhibition of illustrations, New York, USA / Embassy of Slovenia, exhibition of illustrations, Washington, USA / Galerie Nord-East, exhibition of works on paper, Strasbourg, France
2008
Tržaški tisak Bookshop, exhibition of illustrations, Trieste, Italy
2010
Bežigrajska Gallery, exhibition of illustrations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011
International Gallery of Portraits, exhibition of illustrations, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Klovićevi dvori Gallery, exhibition of illustrations, Zagreb, Croatia
2015
Etno Gallery Desetnica, exhibition in honour of Slovene poet France Prešeren, Kranj, Slovenia
Selected Group Exhibitions
Town Gallery Ljubljana, winners of the Prešeren Award for students, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1985,1987,1989
Modern Gallery, Biennal of Young Artists, Rijeka, Croatia
1986
Modern Gallery Rijeka, International Biennal of Drawings, Rijeka, Croatia
1992
Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Selection from Collection of Drawings, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994
Equrna Gallery, Turn around Women − exhibition of Slovenian women artists, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 – 2010
Cankarjev dom, Slovenian Biennal of Illustration, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1991 – 2009
BIB, international exhibition of originals for books for children, Bratislava, Slovakia
2001
Midoru Otaru, BEIJ’01 − International Biennale of European Illustration, Japan
2004 – 2012
Sarmede, Pallazzo Municipale, Monza, Siena, Tarvizo, Verona, Lugano, Rome, Le immagini della fantasia, international exhibition of illustrations for children, Italy and other places in Europe
2005
Museum of American Illustration, The 47th Annual Exhibition, New York, USA / Sala Borsa Library, Illustrare Andersen / Emperor’s new Illustrations, Bologna, Italy / Gallery AOP, Representations of Awe in Contemporary Imagery, exhibition of selected illustrations and photographs, London, England
2006
Museum of American Illustration, The 48th Annual Exhibition, New York, USA
Mednarodni festival sodobnih umetnosti − City of Women, exhibition of illustrations, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Galerie Nord-East, Expo de Noel 2006, exhibition of small works on paper, Paris, France
2006, 2008, 2010
Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Croatian Biennial of Illustration, Zagreb, Croatia
2007
Museum of American Illustration, The 49th Annual Exhibition, international exhibition of illustrations, New York, USA / Museo Diocesano, I colori dell Sacro − dal fuoco alla luce, 4th International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children, Padua, Italy / Gallery ZDSLU, drawings, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008
International Exhibition of Illustration, Book Fair, Bologna, Italy / Traveling exhibition Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, Itabashi Art Museum (Tokyo), Otani Memorial Art Museum (Hiogo), Yokkaichi Municipal Museum (Mie), Ishikawa Nanano Art Museum (Ishikava), Kagoshima Museum (Kagoshima), Chosunilbo Museum (Seoul), Japan and South Korea / Exhibition of prizewinners of the 21st BIB, BIB Exhibition 2008−2009 Ashikaga Chiba City Museum of Art, Korea, Seoul, City Art Museum, Kitakyushu City Museum of Art, Urawa City Museum of Art, Japan / Klovićevi dvori Gallery, 2nd Croatian Biennal of Illustration, Zagreb, Croatia
2009
Northwestern University Library, Best of Bologna: The Edgiest Artists of 2008 International Children’s Book Fair, Chicago, USA / International traveling group exhibition of illustrations Blue Book, Iran and Japan / Museo Diocesano, I colore del sacro; Terra, 5th International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children, Padua, Italy
Selected Illustrated Books
Bernhardt Lins, Willi wunscht sich einen bruder / Nicolo desidera un Fratello / Bohem press, (book was published in German and Italian language, Switzerland / World fairytales, Nova revija, Slovenia, 2004
Brothers Grimm, Cinderella, Mladinska knjiga, Slovenia, 2005
Andrej Brvar, Three Poems, Litera, Slovenia, 2007
Svetlana Makarovič, Svetlana’s fairytales, Slovenia, 2008
Grafenauer / Sottler, Visions, Nova revija, Slovenia / Luigi dal Cin, Echi d’Oceano: Fairytales from Oceania (with 10 other illustrators), Fanco Cosimo Panini, Modena, Italy, 2009
Lela B. Njatin, Why Granny is Angry, Center for Slovenian Literature, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011
Alenka Sottler, Good Morning (artist’s book), unpublished / Albert Camus, The Outsider, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
More books on Behance:
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