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

Education

2010 – 2012 College of Art, Uzhgorod, Ukraine

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

2019 Summer semester at HFBK Hamburg, photography class

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

Awards & scholarships

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

2020 “Pinchuk Art Centre Prize” shortlisted, Kiev/UA

2022 “Strabag art award” shortlisted, Vienna/AT

2022  Art Mentoring Program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 

Selected solo & group exhibitions 

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

2016 “Fear monger me” solo show at Mandelkern project, Vienna/AT

2016 “A (wo)man’s ritual” with Frustracija collective, Michaela Stock gallery, Vienna/AT

2016 “Dialogue between Photography and the Fine Arts” month of photography, group show, Schillerplatz, Vienna/AT

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

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

2017 “Verificat“ group show at Koridor art space, Uzhgorod/UA

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

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

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

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

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

2019 “Paralell Vienna” group show, Vienna/AT

2020 “In motion” group show, Improper Walls, Vienna/AT

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

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

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

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

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

2022  Solo show at Meta Legal Rechtsanwälte, Vienna/AT

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

Publications/Interviews