Alina Sokolova (born in Ukraine, lives and works in Vienna AT)

Education

2016 – 2021 Mag.art. Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, art and photography class

2019 Summer semester at HFBK Hamburg, photography class

2013 – 2015 Academy of Fine Art and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, sculpture & installation class

2010 – 2012 College of Art, Uzorod, Ukraine

Awards & scholarships

2025 Erste Bank Art Award 2025

2024 Schiele  Award 2024

2023  Start-Stipendium Bildende Kunst, Austrian Federal Chancellery

2022  Art Mentoring Program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2022 “Strabag art award” shortlisted

2020 “Pinchuk Art Centre Prize” shortlisted

2015 OeAD mobility scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, figurative painting class

Selected solo & group exhibitions 

2025 “Schiele Award” exhibition, Tulln/AT

2024 “Schiele Award” exhibition, Tulln/AT

2024 “Devotion” group show, Parallel Vienna/AT

2024 “Flesh so fesch” group show, Roberta Keil gallery, Vienna/AT

2023 “Craving stability” duo show with Bobby Meier, Zlati Ajngel, Varazdin/HR

2023 “Motherland” group show, Stadtmuseum Berlin/DE

2022 “RAW” group show, Vacancy gallery, Shanghai/CN

2022 Solo show at Meta Legal Rechtsanwälte, Vienna/AT

2021 “Der Kompass ist nutzlos” group show, FWP Rechtsanwälte, Vienna/AT

2021 “I saw it hang down there” group show, Bode gallery, Berlin/DE

2021  “Dancing plague, exquisite leisure and the incidental choreographer” graduation show at Semperdepot, Vienna/AT

2020 “(I do not feel) free to do (what I want)” group show, Rotor/centre for contemporary art, Graz/AT

2020 “Why there will be women artists in Lviv?” group show, Municipal Art Centre, Lviv/UA

2020 “Pinchuk Art Centre Prize” exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists, Kyiv/UA

2019 “Melancholia” group show at the Museum of Art, Zilina/SK

2019 “With view to the sea” group show at the Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Odesa/UA

2019 “Heracleumfall” solo show at Michaela Stock gallery, Vienna/AT

2018 “Anatomy of river smuggling” solo show at Zigutamve gallery, Vienna/AT

2018 “Delirious islands” in frames of month of photography, public space, Belgrade/RS

2017 “Trust me your import” solo show, Zakarpatya hotel, Uzhhorod/UA

2016 “Balkanization” group show at Friday Exit, Vienna/AT

2016 “Whoja Vu, Folx”, group show, New Jörg art space, Vienna/AT

Publications/Interviews