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Born

1990, 

Israel

About

Ilona Balaga is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2023), and a BAFA from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (2016).

Ilona's practice navigates the tension between the fleeting and the enduring, the organised and the spontaneous. Working across sculpture, installation, video, performance, and collage, Ilona is drawn to spaces which hold a restless energy—where she explores how moments of flux and transformation contrast with more permanent systems. Her work engages with themes of potential, destruction, and renewal in both human and non-human contexts.

Through processes of cutting, adding, erasing, collecting, joining, re-editing, and re-fabricating, she constructs a visual language that treats materials as vessels of activity and carriers of memory. Weaving her materials into new syntaxes, Ilona challenges notions of power, ownership, and history, opening up alternative possibilities beyond the familiar. This reconfiguration becomes a way to investigate how language and meaning are constructed, while also questioning the boundaries between life and art.

Ilona is the recipient of Artis Residency Grant (2025), The Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award (2023) and the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation Grant (2020).  Solo presentations include Bodies in Friction, the Lab Program, Mexico City (2025), Conventional Signs, Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram (2021), Eye of the Storm, Balcont, Tel-Aviv (2019). She has exhibited her work in various group exhibitions including Staffordshire St. Gallery, London (2023), Scoppio Terzo, Terni, Italy (2022), The Wrong Biennale 5th Edition, online (2021), OnCurating Project Space, Zurich (2021) and Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2020, 2018).

About

Ilona Balaga is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2023), and a BAFA from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (2016).

Ilona's practice navigates the tension between the fleeting and the enduring, the organised and the spontaneous. Working across sculpture, installation, video, performance, and collage, Ilona is drawn to spaces which hold a restless energy—where she explores how moments of flux and transformation contrast with more permanent systems. Her work engages with themes of potential, destruction, and renewal in both human and non-human contexts.

Through processes of cutting, adding, erasing, collecting, joining, re-editing, and re-fabricating, she constructs a visual language that treats materials as vessels of activity and carriers of memory. Weaving her materials into new syntaxes, Ilona challenges notions of power, ownership, and history, opening up alternative possibilities beyond the familiar. This reconfiguration becomes a way to investigate how language and meaning are constructed, while also questioning the boundaries between life and art.

Ilona is the recipient of Artis Residency Grant (2025), The Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award (2023) and the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation Grant (2020).  Solo presentations include Bodies in Friction, the Lab Program, Mexico City (2025), Conventional Signs, Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram (2021), Eye of the Storm, Balcont, Tel-Aviv (2019). She has exhibited her work in various group exhibitions including Staffordshire St. Gallery, London (2023), Scoppio Terzo, Terni, Italy (2022), The Wrong Biennale 5th Edition, online (2021), OnCurating Project Space, Zurich (2021) and Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2020, 2018).