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Natalia Grezina was born in 1987 in Sevastopol, Crimea. She graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Sevastopol branch of the Moscow State University with a degree in Geography and Social Ecology; and from the School of Contemporary Art by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2010—2016 worked as an illustrator and graphic designer. Since 2018 lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Natalia creates soft sculptures, objects, and installations, using embroidery, sewing and various artificial and natural materials. Her main topics are post-memory, the influence of historical heritage on personality, and the relationships between human culture and the natural environment. In her works, Natalia often refers to the allegorical language of fairy tales and myths, as well as to archetypal cultural images.
Represented by ADH Gallery (London) and Chrysalid Gallery (Rotterdam).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SPRING, 2023
KUUB Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands
THE SHIMMERING LAND (with Anton Yermolov), 2023
Chrysalid Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
THE WATER SEEMED SMOOTH (with Kirill Basalaev), 2021
ADH Studio, Moscow, Russia
SUNKEN GARDEN, 2020
Chrysalid gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
GIFT
(with Anastasiya Sukhareva-Morozova), 2019
MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, 2019
The Center of Creative Industries “Fabrika”, Moscow, Russia
THE BLACK SEA ALWAYS TURNS RED, 2019
RAW street photo gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
FAME, 2018
Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
GALATEA KUNSTPRIJS, 2023
Dordrechtsmuseum, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
SUBJECT: TRANSITION, 2023
Baanhof, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
A PUBLIC AFFAIR, THE DEAD DARLINGS 2023
Amsterdam Art Week, the Netherlands
COUNTERBODIES, 2022
De Achtertuin, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
BIG ART, 2022
Bajeskwartier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ON TOP OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, 2022
Excelsior Studios, London, UK
COUNTERBODIES, 2021
De Achtertuin, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
THE FIFTH WAVE, 2021
Schusev’s Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
WHAT DO MERMAIDS SING ABOUT, 2021
Artetage, Vladivostok, Russia
MASKS OF TIME, 2020
Ural Vision gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
BLOOD IN THE CORNER OF THE EYE, 2019
The Others art fair, Turin, Italy
TECHNOGENIC, 2019
Hiedanrannan Kartano, Tampere, Finland
WILL YOU BE A WITNESS? 2007/19, 2019
the Center of Creative Industries “Fabrika”, Moscow, Russia
SANS (T)REVE ET SANS MERCI, 2019
Cube Moscow, Russia
WORKSHOP’18:
SYSTEMS OF SECRET SYMBOLS, 2018
MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
CONVENIENT ART, 2018
MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
U.A..., 2018
XL gallery, Moscow, Russia
WORKSHOP’17: THERE WHERE NO ONE DREAMS ABOUT: FROM SACRED GEOGRAPHY TO NO PLACE, 2017
MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
CILTURAL CODE. NON-RANDOM GENERATION, 2016
Museum of Tauris, Simferopol, Ukraine
COLLABORATIONS
SHIMMERING LAND ROLE-PLAYING EXPERIENCE
(with Jana Romanova)
Chrysalid Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
TO THOSE WHO HAVE NO TIME TO PLAY, 2022
SOLO EXHIBITION OF GLUKLYA
Framer Framed, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
ART RESIDENCIES
SALZBURG INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
Salzburg, Austria (course ‘Making special stories’ by Rossella Biscotti), 2021
'BEREG' ART RESIDENCY
Nikolayevka, Ukraine, 2014, 2016