Alyona Volkova (b. 1994, Odesa, Ukraine) is a visual artist working primarily in painting, sculpture, and combinations of the two, as well as printmaking and installation. Her practice centers on consciousness as a fluid phenomenon able to contract inward into the individual lens of self and to expand outward, reaching past the limitations of rational materiality through the extended body of nature, into the collective, and beyond. This exploration informs her work within realms of ontology, ecopsychology, and spirituality, questioning the nature of being, existence, and reality.

Her research stems from theology, rituals, and practices of slowing down, as a counterforce against the fast-paced demands of the modern age, whose gravitational pull often disperses focus to the periphery. She turns to natural aesthetics and symbolism to visually ground or elevate the viewer's attention toward the center, be it a compositional or metaphorical one. Largely inspired by the human–nature connection as a continuation of the body, Volkova incorporates organic materials such as linen, cotton, clay, natural pigments, and minerals.

Trained in classical academic painting from an early age, she has developed a highly detailed realistic technique, which she juxtaposes with fiction in her visual language, resulting in hyper-real abstractions and figurative metascapes: abstract landscapes of inner and outer space, revealing the continuity between consciousness and nature.

Materializing through gradual, repetitive durational labour, her work evokes a meditative space where the viewer encounters dimensions beyond the visible—where new realms of timelessness, spaciousness, and absence of gravity unfold.

Volkova has exhibited internationally at Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt), VOLTA Basel, Art Karlsruhe, and Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden). Her works are held in public collections including Sammlung Ana Pohl, Portugal & Germany; Collezione Guggiari, Switzerland; Collection FER, Germany; and the Misk Foundation, Saudi Arabia, as well as various private collections. She holds a BA in Classical Academic Painting from M.B. Grekov Art College in Odesa, Ukraine, and completed her Meisterschülerin (Master Student) degree at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt, Germany, where she studied under Tobias Rehberger.