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
https://supportyourart.com/conversations/alina-sokolova/ (in Ukrainian)
https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/alina-sokolova-her-process/ (in English)
https://www.bode-projects.com/blog/35-in-conversation-with-alina-sokolova-episode-6/ (in English)
https://www.blockfrei.org/wanderings-through-ukrainian-art-alina-sokolova-by-eva-kovac/ (in English)