Ilona Koroman

Ilona Koroman builds her practice around the poetry of everyday life and the intimacy of interiors, offering glimpses through windows, doorways or keyholes. Her figurative oil paintings, rendered in an earthy palette of ochres and browns, draw on her admiration for the Early Renaissance — before the rules of perfect perspective were fully established — as well as for the Russian avant-garde, while still retaining a distinctly contemporary quality. The seemingly ordinary scenes contain subtle references to art history and evoke a sense of calm, melancholy or timelessness. Her engagement with war or politics remains deliberately understated; instead, she focuses on quiet moments of everyday life, where she believes beauty can be found.