Koryakina Alina
Alina Koryakina was born in 1993 in the town of Valuiki, Belgorod region. Since 2024 she has been living in St. Petersburg.
In 2022 she defended her thesis “Concrete with photoluminescent properties for small architectural forms”, receiving the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences. She is a member of the youth association at the Union of Artists of Russia.
EDUCATION:
- 2016 — V.G. Shukhov Belarusian State Technical University, specialization “Architect-Designer”
EXHIBITIONS:
- 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
- 2023 — “POCHVA”, CSI Byl, Stary Oskol
- 2023 — “Green Man”, National Research University Belgorod, Belgorod
- 2023 — “Bubbles of the Earth”, CSI “Chudo”, Kursk
- 2023 — I Interregional Exhibition of Contemporary Art
- 2023 — “Parallels”, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
- 2023 — curating and participation in “Sasha 2.0. We all need memories to know who we are”, MegaGrinn shopping center, Belgorod
- 2023 — “Bubbles of the Earth”, MAUK “Cultural Center ‘October’, Belgorod
- 2022 — “In the Center of Attention”, BGKhM, Belgorod
- 2022 — personal exhibition “Color! Color! Color! Color!”, CMI, Belgorod
- 2021 — solo exhibition “Search”, BGNIB, Belgorod
- 2021 — “Green Day X. on/off (must choose)”, KC “Oktyabr”, Belgorod
- 2020 - 2017 — solo exhibition “Magic of Colors”, VGKhM, Valuiki
- 2020 - 2017 — VIII Regional Youth Exhibition, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod.
- 2020 - 2017 — Exhibition of watercolors of Belgorod masters, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
- 2020 - 2017 — “Lyrics of Valuysky Krai”, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
- 2020 - 2017 — Exhibition of Litvinova I.N. and her students, VGKhM, Valuiki.
- 2020 - 2017 — VI Regional Youth Exhibition, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod.
“I have been going to plein airs for many years, painting productions from life, studying art history, but I could not fully understand what I wanted to talk about. And only this year I underwent a kind of initiation after deep work with the acceptance of my “I”, working through the theme of shame, phantasms and the inner radical.
In my works I started to address the natural world, the world of simplicity and sincerity. So that the viewer could empathize, feel, find in them what is consonant with himself. I try to convey that elusive feeling when you pour sugar on black bread and butter, when you see fireflies for the first time in your life and can't believe your eyes, or when you come to the river where your father came to swim as a boy, and a few decades later - you. I looked at life through the eyes of an impressionable child, and now I dream of embodying this honesty in my work. I want to immerse the viewer in the comprehension of the most significant images, to connect cultural regional contexts, to demonstrate identity, a common point of support in such a difficult time and to remember the touching and vulnerable that is in each of us.
At this stage I am working with painting, ceramics, connecting science and art through the use of photoluminescent pigment, thanks to the research of which I received my PhD.”
Alina Koryakina, artist
