Alina Hubarenko

I am an Ukrainian-German artist, born 1991 in Kyiw and grown up in Germany near Kassel. I took up artistic activity in early childhood and attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture back in Ukraine, but after one year I switched to a medical university. Nevertheless, I continued self education in art with support and knowledge of modern artists, spending my life between two countries and two professions. Nowadays I consider myself as an emerging professional artist, living and working since 2017 in Bad Arolsen, Germany.

The basis of my art is repetition and meditative practice of watching the world around me: its outlines, details and small nuances. I invite the viewer to walk this path of reality recognition with me, which is why I use a hyper-realistic painting technique where every line in the picture plays a role as a guide. For a long time I have been painting only one object – the waters of seas and oceans. It is beautiful in each of its manifestations, harboring within itself an immense life force and energy that everyone can partake of. Today the people are drowning in a huge amount of information pouring in on them from different sides – fragmentary, contradictory, incomplete, turning their consciousness into chaos. In my work I try to step out of this flow and show the viewer a different state of balance and harmony, slowness of the moment and self-awareness through the greatest element on the planet. The sea is a great source of love and energy for me and I want to share these feelings through my work. My works are portals to a state of genuine joy and abundance so lacking in today’s world of technology and post-truth.

(Es)temporary, curated by Monica Ferrarini, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt – Office of the cultural and didactic relations, Rome, Italy, 08.06-22.06.2023 SY art/ Ukrainart art beyond borders – Ulike Teknikker, Bærum Kunstforening, Sandvika, Norway 3.6 – 25.6 75 Years of BBK Kassel, documenta-hall Kassel, Germany, 01.06-04.06.2023 FLINTA Best Age, Women’s Museum Bonn, Germany, 2.4.-5.11.2023 Brücke, Galerie Violett, Kassel, Germany, 10.-12-2022 AQUA VITA, Galerie Bernhardt, Fulda, Germany, 10.2022-01.2023 Fall Online Exhibition, 2022, National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society, North Amerika, www.noaps.org – 2022 Beyond War, Galleri Nordnorge, Harstad, Norway, 08.-09.2022 Zeitenspiegel, Galerie Bernhardt, Fulda, Deutschland 05.-07.2022 Shades of Grey, The Stage Gallery, kuriert von Maruan Bahrour, Köln, Deutschland – 06.2022 Les Petits Eclairs, Galleria dei Miracoli, curated by Monica Ferrarini, Rom, Italien – 05.2022 Artbox Project Venezia 1.0 (digital) , Tana Art Space, Venedig, Italien – 05.-06.2022 Artbox Project World 2.0, URBANSIDE Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland – 02.-03.2022 Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2021, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London – 2021 Fall Online Exhibition, 2021, National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society, North Amerika, www.noaps.org – 2021 Vernissage Makowski Gallery, Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin – 2021 (Im)Possibilities, Galleria La Pigna, kuriert von Monica Ferrarini, Rome – 2021