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Alina Ihnatieva
$1,100
OilFigurative
Alina Ihnatieva
Ukraine / Europe
ART Index Score
40
Emerging Talent
62%
Updated 2026-05-06
Biography
Alina Ihnatieva is a contemporary Ukrainian artist. Her practice centers on oil painting — executed with palette knife and brush — and explores the space between body, perception, and silence. Moving from an impressionist foundation toward a more internal and emotional field, her work engages light, movement, and absence as its core visual language. Alina approaches the body not as an object but as presence, and her paintings often remain intentionally unfinished, creating space for the viewer to complete the image through their own perception. Her series Traces of Existence — sixteen works in oil on canvas — documents states of being: moments in which the body dissolves into space and the landscape becomes a sensation of time. She participated in the group exhibition DESTINATION, supported by Volvo Ukraine, in 2019, and has collaborated with artist Andriy Shmyrin.
Featured in
- DESTINATION, group exhibition supported by Volvo Ukraine, 2019
Artist's statement
I am a contemporary artist from Ukraine working with oil painting.
My practice focuses on the space between body, perception, and silence. I work with oil painting using palette knife and brush, allowing the surface to remain raw, textured, and alive.
I am not interested in narrative. I work with states — moments where the body dissolves into space and the landscape becomes a sensation of time.
Rooted in impressionism, my work moves toward a more internal and emotional field. Light, movement, and absence shape my visual language.
I explore the body not as an object, but as presence. My paintings often remain intentionally unfinished, creating space for the viewer to enter and complete the image through their own perception.
Works
16 works
