Alina Grabovsky (born in 1987 in Kiev, Ukraine) studied painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She completed her studies in 2016 as a master student of Prof. Marcel van Eeden. This was followed by numerous scholarships and exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including at the Picture Theory Gallery and the Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City.

Alina Grabovsky’s works arise in series and multilayer the processes and changes in society. She thematizes unstable conditions, precarious identities, transitions, and transformations. She often shows only parts of the human body in poses or scenes from daily life, leisure, and sexuality in a fragmentary, interwoven manner. For the viewer, much remains vague and interpretable: one no longer seems to stand firmly on the stage floor, the water has no depth, and the sky occupies a modest space within a strictly geometric form that is not necessarily found in the upper image area. The brushwork is expressive, the color palette provocative, which further intensifies the tensions. There is often no clear boundary between abstract space and figural elements. In a seemingly absurd spatial diversity that follows no perspectival law, Alina Grabovsky’s autobiographical experiences of her Ukrainian-German-Jewish identity are processed.