In my art practice, I reflect on how the challenges of the outside world shape the human inner landscape. Focusing on psychological and transitional spaces, indirect communication, and postmemory, I create textile-based sculptures and installations that use metaphor to articulate states of intimacy and vulnerability. I am drawn to the ghost side of history – those unseen or suppressed presences, myths, and figures that continue to influence society from the margins.
Silence is a central focus of my current research. I approach it not merely as an absence, but as a tool of communication under conditions of censorship and self-censorship. This exploration of boundary states is deeply connected to my experience as a Crimean and a migrant, caught in the friction between conflicting political and cultural forces.
In parallel, I reflect on the trauma of witnessing war in Ukraine from a distance – an experience mediated by continuous exposure to violence through social media. To render this ongoing psychological tension tangible, I turn to archetypal symbols and the tactile quality of handwork, using labor-intensive processes to document reality through emotion and offer a therapeutic counter-space.
While I work across multiple media, including digital video and sound, embroidery remains central to my practice. Inherited from my grandmother, this slow, repetitive skill embeds thought and emotion into every stitch, creating a personal mythology. By combining natural and synthetic materials, I reflect on complex environments where nature resists industrial influence, crafting magical realism spaces between the remembered and the silenced.
Het Wilde Weten project space
The residency period for the development of the artistic research "The Portrait of a Silent Eater".
You Promised Me Poems
In times when it feels like life often moves at the pace of spectacle, You Promised Me Poems offers a different rhythm. It calls for patience and attentiveness, encouraging a way of seeing that values subtlety over proclamation. Some works speak loudly, while others talk gently. This exhibition is dedicated to the power of the quiet ones.
The Memory
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, we are giving shape to memories of freedom and unfreedom. The Memory showcases the results of the encounters and experiences we've had with Studio Herinnering over the past year. We gathered stories, created a podcast, and offered workshops in which four artists collaborated with young people to create new work. We are also showcasing existing and previously unseen work by artists who contributed to the podcast.
The Alcove Project: Bell
The Alcove Project: Bell is a site-specific, participatory project developed as a living archive of stories, emotions, and memories materialized through manual techniques. Established within the TENT special program (March 2025 – June 2026), the project facilitated 17 sessions with 77 participants in Rotterdam, becoming an intimate monument to this community. The project is curated by Anke Bangma.
Interwoven
"Interwoven" is a group exhibition that explores the connections between the Dutch and Ukrainians, many of whom have found refuge in the Netherlands. The exhibition showcases the work of 16 contemporary artists from both countries, highlighting their diverse individual and collective practices, which are united by common threads.
Shimmering Land
The Shimmering Land is a duo exhibition that features the artworks of Crimean artists Natalia Grezina and Anton Yermolov, who have been working alongside curator Marth von Loeben on a project about lost heritage.
Galatea Kunstprijs
The exhibition and incentive prize is aimed at refugees with a residence permit living in the Netherlands. In the last months of 2022, an Open Call was placed inviting artists with a recent migration history to apply. A jury selected eight talented candidates out of all the applications. They have a chance of winning a prize and having their work shown in a joint exhibition.
Counterbodies
“Counterbodies” will be one of a kind pop-up exhibition to showcase works of 12 international female artists from the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Crimea that share a common interest over the theme of the body. The show will feature both established artists and new voices in the contemporary art world, to offer the public both quality and freshness.
Big Art
A pop-up platform for XL artworks and huge design objects, brought to you by a blend of established artists and designers as well as upcoming talents. Every year BIG ART occupies a special building in or around Amsterdam where dozens of galleries, artists and designers fill the place with a unique mix of monumental paintings and drawings, large sculptures and photographs, mesmerizing lightart and impressive interactive installations.
Sunken Garden
The heavy influence of humanity over their natural environment and living condition is undeniable, to the point that the changes in the landscape are visible, tangible and directly reflect on the health of their bodies. The technological hubris that pushes humanity to the limit of their abilities and extremes of their imagination will be absorbed by nature almost effortlessly: the elements will find a way to bring back balance, patiently conquering and reclaiming their rightful domain.
The Black Sea Always Turns Red
In the first chapter of Hundred Year’s War, I chose to explore my own private family history of war and trauma by combining my embroidered sculptures with the tales and witnesses from the visual archive of my grandmother. Each piece has its own story, standing at the border between nightmare and memory, giving an insight to the viewer of the first spark that initiated their creation: the emotional burden handed down on my infant shoulders has shaped the person and the artist I have become.