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Elina Kohanaya
My name is Elina Kohanaya.
I am an artist, a former member of the Union of Children's and Youth Writers (2021), a screenwriter and an actress.
Exhibitions:
2025 — Visual Arts Exhibition “Dreams In Pera Palace” Istanbul
2025 — The exhibition "Temporarily Here" explores the impact of the ecological crisis and war on the human psyche, urging us to live fully in the present moment and recognize the urgency of preserving nature and mental well-being.
2024 — VOGUE SEVENTH EDITION Group exhibition BOOMER GALLERY / TOWER BRIDGE AREA, LONDON UK (my watercolor on page 20 of the catalog)
2022 — “Moscow in Flowers” Museum Sadovoe koltso with watercolor diptych “Irises” group exhibition
2022 — "Countryside romance" A group exhibition of works by fifteen artists who convey from different angles the multidimensional, exciting feeling of country romance (Moscow)
2022 — "Art - into the home" Group exhibition on the role of painting in the interior (Association Exhibition Halls of Moscow)
2018 — joint project with photographer Olga Smirnova: creating thematic postcards based on her portraits of rats for a charity rat exhibition at Loft Project Floors (St. Petersburg)
2016 — watercolor triptych “Uhtyshka!”, group exhibition “Border Spaces” ART PLAY (Moscow)
2010 — personal exhibition of graphics and watercolors “Magical characters of Elina Kohanaya” Circular Kinopanorama (Moscow)
2008 — gallery on Kuznetsky Most with oil painting "Chinese pilot", group exhibition (Moscow)
Since 2013 I have been performing my one-man performances and fairy tales in Moscow.
Some of the sites:
Children's film festival CAT - fairy tale "A Kitten named Little Fox and his friends"
(Circular Cinema Panorama)
Performance with the fairy tale "Ukhtyshka" at the opening of the exhibition "Border Spaces" (ARTPLAY)
Arctic winter festival "Feeling of Snow" fairy tale "White Flower and Little Bear". (Izmailovsky Park)
Festival of Fairy Tales in Sokolniki Park
Participated in the “Folk Tales of Kindness” competition, organised by SITYCELEBRITY, with a fairy tale in verse “Laughter is so powerful!” After winning the competition, it was voiced by Honored Artist Andrei Matveev.
The workshop of cardboard decorations Made in Cardboardia chose the fairy tale "Nobody's Puppy" for installation in Artplay to help the GAV Homeless Animal Shelter and published it in the Tiranska Gazette newspaper.
Two works were published in collections: the Ballad of the Wind in “The World through the Eyes of the Young” and the story “Your feelings are mutual, Poseidon” in “The Writer’s House”.
I wrote fairy tales to order for the Alisa Fox workshop.
I worked as a freelance writer with the Bookly publishing house and as a screenwriter for the children's YouTube channel “Smalfiki”.
I will be glad to receive your letters to
Elina Kohanaya, with endless faith in miracles