

Momalyu
Born: 1980
Hometown: Ljubljana
Based in: Slovenia
Born: 1980
Hometown: Ljubljana
Based in: Slovenia
Liubov Kriuchkova, aka Momalyu, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Slovenia, Europe, who specialises in Fine art 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.
My art is a way to synchronize with my true self, to illuminate all that is good in myself and others through contemplating the beauty of nature and connecting with it.
What inspires you?
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.
Describe your creative process.
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.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
vital and positive energy according to my clients
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
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...
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
listen to yourself and be grateful
Where do you go for inspiration?
forest, mindful walking while admiring nature
Awards
Furniture Design Award, Moscow, Russia
2004
Furniture Design Award, Moscow, Russia
2003
Exhibitions
Fragility of Beauty
Switzerland, 2025
"GO Game"
Greece, 2024
"Infusion with the Wisdom of Nature"
Slovenia, 2024
«Gaja and Spirits of Nature»
Italy, 2024
Artexpo
Italy, 2024
«Modrákohout»
Czechia, 2023
«Unity with Nature»
Slovenia, 2023
Art Expo
Slovenia, 2023
«Graceful Vegetables"
Slovenia, 2022
“In Bloom”
Canada, 2022
«Tropical Sharm»
Slovenia, 2022
«View from the window of the «Molchanovka»
Russia, 2016