ARTIST BIO
Liubov Kriuchkova, aka Momalyu, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Slovenia, Europe, who specialises in floral painting and pattern design. Her entire career has been centred around design and creativity. She was educated at the School of Fine Arts and she has a successful background in the furniture industry and interior design, along with a professional education in design.
Liubov was born in Siberia, and she has been painting ever since she was a young child. She has used painting to express her feelings and emotions. When she painted interior design projects for her clients, that's when she gained her first significant clientele. Then, after moving to Thailand in 2015, she gave everything up to pursue professional career in arts. The fragrant nature of Asia gave her works and paintings an air of warmth and sunlight.
She is currently living and working as an artist in Slovenia and her art focuses on the relationship between nature and humanity. In addition to collaborating with several companies to create original prints and patterns for textiles and wallpaper, she is working on a new series of paintings. These days, she mostly paints scenes from nature, a theme that permeates both her artistic and commercial endeavours.
Liubov takes part in regular exhibitions and she exhibited her works in Slovenia and Czech Republic, Italy. Her works are in private collections in Thailand, China, Australia, USA, Canada and Europe, South Africa.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am Love (Liubov- transl.). That's my name, and that's my way of exploring and reimagining the world around me. Today, in the dynamic rhythm of life, I feel a strong need to maintain my inner balance and be a source of light for others. So, my art is a way to connect with my true beginning, highlight everything good and good in myself and others through contemplation of the beauty of nature and connection with it.
"Know yourself - and you know the world," said the ancient sages, and for me these are not just words. My creativity is an expansion of the picture of the world and a way of self-discovery. Contemplating nature, which opens towards the rays of the sun, I find much in common with how our souls open towards love, transforming. So, drawing resources from nature, I paint light and harmony.
I find a response in the work of the Impressionists: in their solar palette and in their ability to show and display the elusive moment of the present...
I convey my feeling of unity with nature on canvases with oil paints that seem to me noble and deep. Their natural shades - earthen - symbolize support, and green - a symbol of energy of growth, development and harmony.
As Galen said, "Nature is the highest wisdom embodied.
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SOLO
3.09 - 20.09 2024 knjiznica Medvode, Slovenia
2024, June - «Gaja and Spirits of Nature», gallery Rettori Tribbio, Triest, Italy
2023, September - «Spirit Herbals», Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2022, October - «Tropical Nature», Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2022, August- «Graceful Vegetables», Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2022, December - «Tropical Nature», Commercial Venue, Ljubljana, Slovenija
OTHER PROJECTS
5-30.10.2024 II Edition of Pisa Social Arts Festival 2024, Italy.
10–13.10.24 2024 "GO Game", Platforms Project, Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library+Neon, Athens, Greece
2024, May - InspireFest, Astana HUB& US Embassy in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
2024, February- Grand exhibition Salvador club Ljubljana.
2023, October - ArtExpo Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023, April - Slovanský dům «Modrákohout», Prague
2022, March - Flash Benefit show , Square Foot Show, Canada
2022, February - Square Foot Show “In Bloom”, group exhibition, Canada
2016 «View from the window of the «Molchanovka» group exhibition, Irkutsk, Russia
2015 Artist's House Gallery, group exhibition, Irkutsk, Russia
2003 Furniture Design Award, Moscow, Russia
2004 Furniture Design Award, Moscow, Russia
2023 TV Medvode. Opening of a Solo Exhibition Link
2022 Journal article «Soto2022», page 19, September 2022, Slovenija, Link
2022 Journal Mojaobcina
EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
CURRENT REPREZENTATION
Gallery «Gabriel Fine Arts», London
PUBLICATIONS