Alina Babenko, visual artist

Alina Babenko is a contemporary painter born in 1993 in Ukraine. She attended the Academic Art School in Bila Tserkva and completed her Master’s degree in Architecture at Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2017. She currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Using oil paints applied on canvas directly with her hands, Babenko creates works at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Her paintings are characterized by organic shapes, bold colours, and expressive, energetic lines. Seemingly chaotic, her compositions demonstrate balance of spontaneity and delicate fluid structure.

Babenko’s art focuses on the theme of inner dialogue, emotional and psychological states, transforming personal mental experiences into complex multi-layered images. Her process is rooted in spontaneity and intuition, seeking to abolish control and distance between the artist and her medium. The resulting works reflect a mysterious internal structure, revealing fragments of the artist’s personal universe while inviting broader interpretations from viewers. By translating her inner states into psychological abstract landscapes on canvas, Babenko, explores the very possibility of creating and maintaining dialogue with the viewers. Her intuitive approach secures the truth of the moment and reveals the sensual domain of the individual. Babenko’s paintings convey a profound sense of emotional depth and self-reflection.

Babenko’s solo and group shows include: Dialogue at Spivakovska ART:EGO Gallery, Kyiv (2021), INNER DIALOGUE at Galerie Frank, Vienna (2022), and the Woman’s Essence Show & Award 2025 at Musa International Art Space in London (May 8-10, 2025), supported by the prestigious WAA Woman’s Art Award. She has also taken part in group exhibitions such as Even if 50 or 80 percent water, every human being is equal at Wasserturm Favoriten, Vienna (2022), and the LLB Experten Gespräch: ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST ALS INVESTMENT at LLB (Österreich) AG in Vienna (2024), where she had the honor to present her paintings. Her works are in private collections around the world.

Alina Babenko
Alina graduated from the Academic Art School in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Region, Ukraine in 2011 and completed her Master’s degree in Architecture at Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine in 2017. 
In 2016, Alina began painting oil paintings and has since developed her own technique, which allows her to reflect her life experiences on canvas. The artist’s paintings are in private collections in Ukraine, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar and USA.

“Each canvas is a step which leads to opening of undiscovered individual’s properties, truths, values, desires and possibilities. Using canvas and lively colors, I reproduce the light, which lives inside me, creating the whole story in my pictures. The story, which no one heard before and won’t hear, but can only guess about what is happening by subject of the painting.”

Alina Babenko
Alina graduated from the Academic Art School in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Region, Ukraine in 2011 and completed her Master’s degree in Architecture at Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine in 2017. 
In 2016, Alina began painting oil paintings and has since developed her own technique, which allows her to reflect her life experiences on canvas. The artist’s paintings are in private collections in Ukraine, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar and USA.

“Each canvas is a step which leads to opening of undiscovered individual’s properties, truths, values, desires and possibilities. Using canvas and lively colors, I reproduce the light, which lives inside me, creating the whole story in my pictures. The story, which no one heard before and won’t hear, but can only guess about what is happening by subject of the painting.”

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