Natalia Turnova is a painter and sculptor who holds a special place in contemporary Russian art. She grew up in the East: born in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ar the age of five she moved with her parents to the state of Burma in Southeast Asia.
Graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Art and Industry (formerly Stroganov) in 1983, she met Boris Orlov, the artist who noted the proximity of her art to the unofficial, which largely determined her further path. Since the 1990s, Natalia Turnova has become one of the most sought-after artists. To this time, she has developed her own recognizable style: expressionistic manner, bright colors, large format, precise shape.
Turnova has always been true to her gut, not striving to belong to any trends and groupings – and eventually became an original artist and philosopher, for whom creativity is something that grows out of life. That is why any of her statements, born in the course of long reflections and numerous “trials and errors”, is a declaration about being, about the essence, made by a subtle observer and researcher.
Natalia Turnova’s works are part of the collections of such institutions as the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Far Eastern Art Museum, the Oklahoma City Museum (USA), the Museum of Modern Art Lodz (Poland), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
