Inga Kiss

Inga Kiss is a professional artist who received her education in the city of Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.

In 1985, she participated for the first time in a city exhibition held at the Donetsk Palace of Culture, receiving favorable reviews in the local press. After graduating from the Donetsk State Art College (DSAC), she worked in book graphics and later in industrial graphic design, serving as a freelance artist for several city publishing houses.

In 1994, she published her first book — a fairy tale in verse titled “Andryusha’s Toys” — under the name Nina Belova, with her own illustrations. The book was printed in a circulation of 20,000 copies. Much later, her second book, also illustrated by the author, was released — “Funny Lines.”

Later, by force of circumstance, she tried herself in the field of design — first in interior design, and later in fashion design at the city fashion house Lidik. While working on interiors, she created original projects using her own sketches for metal forging, stained glass, bas-reliefs, and wall paintings, the latter of which she executed personally.

In the mid-1990s, she turned to easel painting, selling her works at the city art market, working in the genres of landscape and still life. Later, ...