The materials are very tactile, when interacting with them tangibility is important, the sense of volume often goes behind the movement of the mass – improvisation giving eventually new forms. The result is often unpredictable, which makes the process of creation unique.

The pieces of clay and porcelain come together into the whole one, they are flexible and malleable to assemble – the process of assembling the sculpture transmits the act of finding and uniting into an overall volume. Balance and movement are important, opposing materials in the same object realise the metaphor of balance. The different materials often dictate their own composition, arguing with the sketches, this dictate is important and uses imperfect of processes and materials, constant practice and selection of moments. I am interested into the themes of memory, the collection of fragments and the bringing together of memories into a whole one, the theme of body and movement, balance and dynamics, growth and decay in nature. Initial ideas and meanings unite separate objects in series, the time of creation of objects varies, sometimes series are added or corrected, removing objects that have become irrelevant. When I create artwork, I use hand modelling, glazing, high firing, oxidation, patination, combining ceramics, wood, stone and metals. Main art media: sculpture and objects.
Natalia Stepanyuk
— sculptor, ceramist, artist works with traditional materials: clay, porcelain, metal, wood. The choice to use them is made consciously, later they will return to the environment of origin.
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1964 born in Krasnoyarsk, lives and works in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation

EDUCATION

2022-2023 — Intensives and workshops at MSCA. Moscow
2020 — MosArtShcool, art management. Moscow
2020 — Workshop of sculptor N. Chepkasova. Kaliningrad
2018 — Workshop of artist Y. Bulychev. Kaliningrad
2000 — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, jurisprudence. Kaliningrad
1995 — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, philology. Kaliningrad
1990 — ZNUI N.K. Krupskaya, choreography. Moscow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 — Meditation. Exhibition of sculpture by Natalia Stepanyuk. Historical and Art Museum. Kaliningrad
2023 — The Logic of Harmony. Sculpture by Natalia Stepanyuk. House-Museum

Herman Brachert. Svetlogorsk
2022 — Flow. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad

EXHIBITIONS

2023 — Nerve. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad
2023 — Reboot. Triptych Gallery. Moscow
2023 — House as a Phenomenon. MilliArt Gallery,/ 4Ceramics. Moscow
2023 — Gravity. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad
2022 — Bedtime Stories. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad
2021— Under the Red Dome. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad
2021— Free from…. ARTGART Gallery. Kaliningrad
2021— 360. ARTSPASE Gallery. Kaliningrad
2020 — OUT. ARTSPASE Gallery. Kaliningrad
2020 — Stay in touch. Nagornaya Gallery. Moscow
2020 — IN DA HOUSE. ARTSPASE Gallery. Kaliningrad
2020 — Picture Question 2.0. ARTSPASE Gallery. Kaliningrad
2019 — Apartment Concert, Picture Question. ARTSPASE Gallery. Kaliningrad

COLLECTIONS

Public collections:
Historical and Art Museum. Kaliningrad
Hermann Brachert House Museum. Svetlogorsk

Private collections:
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad (RF)
Rotterdam (Netherlands), La Manga (Spain), Albany, New York
(USA)

GALLERY ACTIVITIES

2020 — Co-founder of the contemporary art gallery ARTGART.
Manager, curator of exhibition projects. Kaliningrad
2019 — Founder of the contemporary art gallery ARTSPACE.
Curator, organizer of exhibition projects. Kaliningrad

PRESS

2023 — «Kulturny Code». Vesti Kaliningrad
2020 — «Grani Iskusstva». Kaliningrad houses. 2020, No. 08, December, p. 48.
2019 — «Kartiny Vopros». Royal gate. 2019, No. 11, November, p.27.
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