Natalia Papaeva
Natalia Papaeva is a visual/time-based artist born and raised in Buryatia (Eastern Siberia) and based in the Netherlands. Her artistic process is set in motion with text – read or written – which then translates into movements, images, sounds. Often, her endangered birth language materializes in her practice. It brings the Buryat language from the domestic sphere into the public realm and by doing so she resists the notion of endangerment. She holds a BA from the Royal Academy of Art, Hague. Natalia won the TENT Rotterdam Award for the best video work and KABK department prize for the best graduation project in 2018. In 2025 Natalia won Frans de Wit Prize and also the prize of Business Platform Schipholweg for the best sculpture. From 2022 to 2024 Natalia was a resident at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Her works have been shown at HKW, M HKA, Asian Biennial, Ulaanbaatar Biennial and other international platforms.
The Year I Decided to Become My Own Moon, Singing Moon 05:02, Eating Moon
7:36, single channel video, colour, sound, 05:02, 2024, installation
Photo credits Sander van Wettum
Minii Ger, 04:23, video-performance, Natalia Papaeva
Camera-woman Mirella Moschella
Photo credits Mirella Moschella
The enemy is coming, video-performance, single channel video, sound, 09:27 min, 2024
Yellow textile work, The Mountain with a Big Nose, 2025, screen mesh for the screenprint, cotton, screen print, laser, 80*100 cm
Photo credit Ivan Erofeev
The process of reading, 2023, Marker on canvas, 214*123 cm
Photo credit Ivan Erofeev
Blue textile work, Let me think, 2024, Satin – Mongolian “torgon” fabric, laser, 54*54 cm
Photo credit Ivan Erofeev
The fire in my mind, aluminium, 2025, 180*150 cm
Photo credit Jonathan de Waard
Yokhor, 2018, 11:07, video-performance
Camera-man Oleg Revenko