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Centre for Illustration

Alenka Sottler

  • 1958

Selected Exhibitions

2012 | Authorial exhibition of illustrations, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia

2012 | Authorial exhibition of illustrations, KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia

2011 | Authorial exhibition of illustrations, International Gallery of Portraits, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2008, 2009 | I colori dell Sacro, 4th and 5th International Exhibition of Illustrations for Children, Museo Diocesano, Padova, Italy

2008, 2009 | International Exhibition of Illustration, Book Fair, Bologna, Italy (traveling exhibition)

2008−2009 | Exhibition of prizewinners of the 21st BIB, Korea and Japan

2005, 2006, 2007 | The 47th, 48th and 49th Annual Exhibition, New York, USA

2005 | Sala Borsa Library, Illustrare Andersen / Emperor’s new Illustrations, Bologna, Italy

2005 | Representations of Awe in Contemporary Imagery, Gallery AOP, London, England

2004–2012 | Le immagini della fantasia, an international exhibition of illustrations for children, Italy and other European countries

Awards

2016 | Gold Medal, Illustrators 58 Annual Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, New York, USA

2013 | Prešeren Fund Award, Republic of Slovenia

2012 | Grand Prix, 3rd Croatian Biennial of Illustration, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 | Finalist in Getting Inside The Outsider, House of Illustration and The Folio Society’s Inaugural Book Illustration Competition, London, UK

2010, 2012 | Merit Award / 3 × 3 Illustration ProShow No.9 / 3 × 3 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, New York, USA

2008 | Award for Excellence, Bologna Book Fair, Bologna, Italy

2007 | Golden Apple, 21st Biennial of Illustration Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005, 2006, 2007 |Certificate of Merit, 47th, 48th, 49th Annual Exhibition at the SI New York, USA

2005 | Award for Excellence, Emperor’s New Illustrations, Bologna Book Fair, Bologna, Italy

Selected Published Illustrated Works

2021 | Jack Zipes/ Felix Salten, Bambi, Princeton University Press

2019 | Anja Štefan, Tunes from Mousedale dunes, publishing house Mladinska knjiga

2012 | Albert Camus, The Outsider, publishing house Mladinska knjiga

2011 | Lela B. Njatin, Why Granny is Angry, Center for Slovenian Literature

2009 | Grafenauer, Sottler, Visions, art edition, 999 copies, publishing house Nova revija

2008 | Svetlana Makarovič, Svetlana’s fairytales, Publishing house MIŠ

2007 | Andrej Brvar, Three Poems, publishing house Litera

2005 | Brothers Grimm, Cinderella, publishing house Mladinska knjiga

2004 | Bernhardt Lins, Willi wunscht sich einen bruder / Nicolo desidera un Fratello, Bohem press

2004 | World fairytales, publishing house Nova revija