Natalia Gurova
Natalia Gurova is mentee of Sonia Leimer.
Natalia Gurova’s artistic practice moves between fiction, history, and social structures, translating these narratives into sculptural, installation-based, and curatorial forms. She engages with a space and its social dimensions, addressing questions of migration, queer identity, and the politics of memory. Working with wood, ceramics, metal, text and found materials, Natalia investigates processes of fragmentation, reconstruction, and recontextualization — how objects absorb and transmit traces of personal histories. Often, these forms suggest bodies and structures in transition: part human, part object, viewed through feminist and queer perspectives.
She was born in Belarus, raised in Russia, since 2014 lives and works in Austria. Natalia studied object sculpture 2018-2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Julian Goethe. She got Würdigungspreis for her diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts. Natalia’s works have been exhibited at Vienna Art Week, Vienna Design Week, Wien Woche, Parallel, Austrian Cultural Forum London, Queer Museum at Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Galerie Michaela Stock, Belvedere 21.