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Alexandra Konofalskaya

Belarusian sand animation artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ21994309 ↗
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Alexandra Konofalskaya (born June 11, 1986) is a sand animation artist.

Born in Zhodino, Minsk Region, Belarus, Konofalskaya had always dreamt of stage, and, as a child, she attended dancing classes. Though love to drawing led Konofalskaya to Zhodino kids art school in 1996 (graduated in 2000, summa cum laude). Continuing to improve in arts, in 2004 Konofalskaya entered the Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, the faculty of folk culture. She graduated in 2009 as a specialist in arts and drafting, artistic handicrafts. Being a student, Konofalskaya took part in a number of exhibitions and creative projects. Besides, she also arranged several personal exhibitions and performances.

In 2008 and 2009 Konofalskaya participated in an international action, Night of Museums, as the art director in the Belarusian National Arts Museum.

In 2009 she makes a dream of her childhood, both drawing and stage performances combined, to come true. Alexandra establishes a project “Sandart.

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“Alexandra Konofalskaya” enters the record as belarusian sand animation artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alexandra, Konofalskaya and Belarusian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexandra Konofalskaya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.