Alina Kostrichenko is a Russian-Ukrainian painter, currently based in Bulgaria. Some of her works she makes in collaboration with her mother, Valentina Murenkova.
Alina has always been interested in naive art, the art of primitive peoples, drawings in medieval manuscripts, as well as the joyful and open colours of the early Renaissance, and in her works, she tries to develop her own style based on a combination and rethinking of these periods and styles of art, while raising difficult social issues. In recent years, she has dedicated her work to the themes of violence, the war in Ukraine, and life in exile. Together with friends, she organized several exhibitions in Germany and the United Kingdom in support of Ukraine and Ukrainian artists.
Alina has studied contemporary art at HSE in Moscow, Russia and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
2024. Dreamscapes, Toplocentrala Regional Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. Personal exhibition.
2024. Ukraine - Our Home, London, UK, The Forge Gallery
2024. Power of Grace, 54 The Gallery, London
2023. Art of Existence, The Holy Art gallery, London,UK
2023. The Holy Art Fair, OXO Tower, London, UK
2023. Ukraine - Our Home, Cambridge, UK
2022. Ukraine - Our Home, Reforum Space, Berlin, Germany
2022. Ukraine - Our Home, Nuremberg, Germany
2022. Ukraine - Our Home. Crafft Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
2022. Fragility of Life. Art Events, Venice, Italy
2022. Ukraine - Our Home. Kendrew Barn gallery. Oxford, UK
2022. Ukraine - Our Home. LTB Rooms, Coventry, UK
2022. Ukraine: Courage to create, The Koppel Project gallery, London, UK
2022. More Than Body, Chisinau, Moldova
2021. City’s Dreams. Misericordia chapel, Venice, Italy
2021. BORDERS: BODIES + CITIES SKIN, Venice, Italy
2020. Forced relationships. HSE Gallery, Moscow, Russia
