My art begins where words are no longer enough.
I give thoughts, experiences, and feelings a physical form.
Biography & Artistic Credo
ALLA GRANDE is a German contemporary artist with an academic background in architecture, fine arts, and design.
She completed a five-year university degree at the State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture | Institute of Architecture and Art in Odessa and subsequently worked as an architect for several years.
The intensive engagement with space, structure, proportion, and construction continues to shape her artistic mindset to this day.
Her independent artistic work evolved over many years and through various forms of expression. In the course of her artistic development, ALLA GRANDE worked with various two-dimensional and, in particular, three-dimensional techniques and materials. In the process, spatial effect, structure, and haptics increasingly moved to the fore. From this development, her current distinctive form of sculptural wall reliefs ultimately emerged.
ALLA GRANDE deals with emotional and psychological states that shape our lives and relationships: closeness and distance, protection and vulnerability, inner pressure, trust, change, liberation, and belonging. The starting point can be her own experiences as well as feelings and behaviors she perceives in other people.
Her works do not recount these experiences in a representational way. She translates them into abstract physical forms, leaving the viewer the freedom to recognize something of their own within them.
This gives her architectural background a new meaning. What once served to construct real spaces is now used by ALLA GRANDE to capture something far less tangible: emotional states.
This combination of structural thinking and psychological perception forms the core of her current artistic practice.
Today, her works can be found in private collections around the world, as well as in international hospitality and interior design projects—from Europe and the United States to the Middle East and Asia.

Sculptural wall reliefs
The sculptural wall reliefs emerge directly from the material. Through folding, tension, compression, and layering, three-dimensional structures with pronounced depth and physical presence develop.
Light is an essential component of the work. Depending on the time of day, the viewing angle, and the surrounding space, the shadows, contours, and sense of depth change. As a result, the relief never appears completely static, but rather enters into an ongoing dialogue with the space.
Each work is created intuitively and, at the same time, methodically during the creative process. Forms are developed, modified, and rebalanced until structure, movement, and stillness achieve their own equilibrium. This process cannot be repeated exactly—each relief remains a one-of-a-kind piece.
The works are created for immediate spatial perception. Only through the interplay of material, dimension, light, and architecture do they unfold their full physical impact.
Exhibitions
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 Artbox.projects Gallery | as part of ARTEXPO Basel | Switzerland
- 2024 Cipriarte Gallery | as part of the Venice Biennale | Italy
- 2024 Andakulova Gallery | Dubai | United Arab Emirates
- 2024 Thomson Gallery | Zug | Switzerland
- 2024 Nicoleta Gallery | Berlin | Germany
- 2023 Swiss Art Expo | Artbox.projects Gallery | Zurich | Switzerland
- 2023 Van Gogh Art Gallery | International Group Exhibition | Madrid | Spain
- 2022 Artparma Fair | Context Art Gallery | Parma | Italy
- 2022 Luxembourg Art Fair | Context Art Gallery | Luxembourg
- 2022 International Art Fair Innsbruck | Van Gogh Art Gallery | Austria
- 2021 Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) | Neuland Gallery | Essen
- 2021 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam | Neuland Gallery | Netherlands
- 2021 Affordable Art Fair Stockholm | Neuland Gallery | Stockholm | Sweden
- 2017 The Art Cube Gallery | Düsseldorf
- 2014 Art Monaco - International Art Fair | Monte Carlo | Monaco
- 2013 Rhineland State Exhibition | Krefeld
- 2009 Salle Andre Kerkhove | Arts Et Loisirs | City of Leers | France
- SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Since 2014 Permanent solo exhibition featuring rotating works
- GLIM IMMOBILIEN | Krefeld
- 2014 Schaffrath Stiftung | Mönchengladbach
- 2012 Kameha Suite Frankfurt | Frankfurt am Main
- 2012 Burj Al Arab | Dubai | United Arab Emirates
- 2012 The Charles Hotel | Munich
- 2011 Textile Fair Frankfurt | Frankfurt am Main
- 2011 Swissotel Berlin | Berlin
- 2011 InterContinental Berlin | Berlin
- 2010 Bayerischer Hof | Königssaal | Munich
- 2010 City Hall Ville de Leers | Leers | France
- 2010 Deutsches Theater Munich | Munich
- 2009 Museum Kulturbahnhof | Korschenbroich
- 2008 Ev. Ladenkirche | Müllheim a. d. Ruhr
Prizes & awards
- 2024 Architecture Collection | HOUZEE Awards | Platinum Award
- 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards | Art Book / Charity Project | Best Of The Best
- 2015 Carpetvista Design Competition | 3rd Place
- 2013 Creative Hands Award | Nomination
- 2012 EMA - Economy Meets Art | Nomination
- 2012 Homesolute Award | REMEMBER Collection | designed for TEBA
- 2011 Women for the Future | EMOTION Initiative | Top 5 Nomination | Realize Dream
- 2011 Teba Art Award
- 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards | Award for Art Book / Charity Project
Publications
- 2024 Art Magazine Magzoid | Dubai | United Arab Emirates
- 2022 Hia Magazine | Dubai | United Arab Emirates
- 2019 Saatchi Art Catalog | Spring 2019 | Los Angeles | USA
- 2018 Rheinische Post | Westdeutsche Zeitung | Krefeld
- 2016 Art Monaco Magazine | Monte Carlo | Monaco
- 2013 Stemberg Magazine, Wuppertal, Germany
- 2013 Kr-One | City Magazine | Krefeld
- 2012 Trade Fair Newspaper Stuttgart | Frankfurt am Main
- 2012 Dailynet | Frankfurt am Main
- 2012 Arcade Magazine | March/April
- 2012 Teba Magazin | Duisburg
- 2011 Top Niederrhein Magazin | Krefeld
- 2011 Emotion Magazine | Women for the Future - Our Role Models | Berlin
- 2011 Teba Catalog | Art Edition Alla GrAnde
- 2010 Nord Éclair | Voyage Avec Ses Toiles | City of Leers | France
- 2010 Extra Tip on Sunday | Krefeld
- 2009 Rheinische Post | Krefeld
- 2009 La Voix du Nord | City of Leers | France
- 2008 Mülheimer Woche | Mülheim an der Ruhr
Works in private and public ownership
- Conrad Hamburg Hotel | Presidential Suite | Levantehaus | Hamburg
- Lune Rouge Collection | Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil | Montreal | Canada
- Humbert II and Marie-José of Savoy Foundation | Geneva | Switzerland
- Federal Ministry of Defence | Berlin
- Karlheinz Böhm Foundation | Menschen für Menschen
- ArtLink London | Commissioned Works for Luxury Hotel | Qatar
- Architecture & Interior Design Studio MHZ | Milan | Commissioned work for Kuwait
- Copelouzos Family Art Museum | Athens | Greece
- Schaffrath Foundation | Moenchengladbach
- Leers City Hall | Leers | France
- Headquarters TOP Magazine Frankfurt Rhine-Main | Frankfurt am Main
- Krefeld City Hall | Krefeld
- Protestant Church Shop | Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Kameha Suite | Frankfurt am Main
- Amendt Architecture Firm / Gallery | Krefeld
- Neuss Port Headquarters | Neuss
- Other private and public collections worldwide