20/04/2026
Meet the Artist: Alena Gastaldi🌟
23.04, 18:00
ZithaKlinik, 20-30 rue d’Anvers, 1st floor
Luxembourg
Alena Gastaldi is a classically trained figurative and plein air painter based in Luxembourg. Academic painting, drawing, and sculpture formed an integral part of her six-year architecture studies in her hometown of Kostroma, Russia, which she continued to develop after graduation. She later spent a year studying with the internationally renowned watercolourist Thomas M. Schaller and is currently a regular student at Studio Escalier in France, a private school known for its rigorous academic curriculum, where she has studied under Nicole Michelle Tully and Tobias M. Hall, accomplished American painters.
Her work captures the character of contemporary life through direct observation, preserving fleeting moments and cultural narratives with a strong foundation in traditional technique.
The majority of the works in this exhibition are created en plein air – painted outdoors, in a tradition that has been central to artistic practice for generations or developed from smaller observational studies. Painted directly from life, these works translate the complexity of a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface, balancing colour, structure, and atmosphere. This process unfolds in the midst of everyday activity, where movement, sound, and distraction become part of the act of observation.
She regularly participates in plein air competitions in Ireland, where her work has been regularly recognised by juries and colleagues. Alena’s work is held in private collections worldwide, from Australia, China and Singapore to Europe and the United States.
See you there🙌🏻