About the Artist
Saneta-Sofía Galasova is a painter and professional musician of Ossetian heritage and Spanish nationality. Raised in Spain, she began painting at an early age in the studio of her father, the internationally recognised painter Ruslan Galasov, and has pursued her artistic practice ever since.
.Her parallel training as a professional musician has profoundly influenced her work as a painter. She studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León in Spain, the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in Austria, and the Haute École de Musique de Genève in Switzerland. For more than eleven years, she has been an artist of the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Her extensive musical experience has shaped her understanding of structure, rhythm, composition and expression, qualities that continue to inform her approach to painting.


During her years in Saint Petersburg, Galasova’s artistic development continued at the Mariinsky Theatre’s scenic painting workshop, Golovinsky Hall. Alongside her work as a musician, she spent much of her time there, working alongside painters and scenic artists, exchanging ideas and immersing herself in the practice of theatrical painting. This experience played a significant role in her development as a painter and left a lasting impression on her artistic practice.
For Galasova, music and painting are expressions of a shared creative source. She believes that art emerges most authentically when it arises from a deeper inner presence rather than from the ego alone.
Her work has been exhibited at the Feodor Chaliapin Museum and in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, among other venues. She received a commission to create The Conversion of Saint Paul, a permanent fresco for the Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings are held in private collections in Spain, France and Russia.

Exhibitions
Exhibition in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, 2018–19.
Exhibition at the Fyodor Chaliapin Museum in St. Petersburg, 2020.
Exhibition in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, 2022.
Exhibition at the Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Bali, Karangasem, October 2026.
