Alfia Koral

Born in Russia, and now based in London, Alfia Koral is a contemporary oil painter whose practice combines classical painting traditions with an analytical, research-driven approach to the medium itself.

Her artistic education began in childhood at a formal art school and continued through academic studies in drawing and painting. Alongside her artistic training, she qualified as a telecommunications engineer, a background that continues to inform her analytical approach to painting. She later studied art history and contemporary painting at the HSE Art and Design School in Moscow while independently pursuing an ongoing study of traditional Old Masters oil painting techniques through specialist workshops, masterclasses, technical literature and sustained studio practice. This combination of academic training, independent research and analytical thinking continues to shape her artistic practice.

For Alfia, a painting is never simply an image on a surface. She thinks of it as a layered structure in which colour, light and matter interact across successive strata of paint. Whether working with transparent glazes, dense impasto or expressive palette-knife passages, she builds each work upon an underlying chromatic foundation that co...

Education:
2017, 2020 HSE Art and Design School, Moscow, courses "Introduction to the History of Art", "Contemporary Art
2019 - 2020 St. Petersburg Art School "Oil painting", Course of Traditional Old Masters oil painting techniques
2017 St. Petersburg Art School "Artist Online", Academic painting course based on the practices of the leading art universities of St. Petersburg
2012 Art school "Art and Craft", Ufa, Oil painting technique course
2006 - 2008 Modern Art and Design School "Bohemica", Ufa, Courses of Academic drawing and painting
1992 - 1995 Ufa Children's Fine Art School No.2 named after A.E. Tyulkin, Basic training in painting and drawing, art history, sculpture

SOLO SHOWS
2022 "Autumn impressions", Art Space "Metronome", Ufa, Russia
2021 "Winter stories", Ice Palace "Ufa Arena", Ufa, Russia

Selected exhibitions:
2023 "Architecture of the World", "Landscapes of the World" Baroque Hall Srem Museum, Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia
2023 Secret Postcard Show, Cupola Contemporary Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2023 Still Life Expo, Gallery of Modern Art "Art Commune", Moscow, Russia
2022 Talent of Russia, The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Starfall, Zdes na Taganke Gallery, curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk, Moscow, Russia
2018-2021 VIII-XI festivals "Rosneft Lights up the Stars" art exhibitions in Tinkoff Hall concert complex, and in Bashkortostan State Concert Hall, Ufa, Russia