Nataliya Lemesheva

Nataliya Lemesheva is a Russian-born artist based near Barcelona, Spain. Her practice explores adaptation, personal boundaries, visibility and the experience of living between cultural contexts. Working across oil painting and mixed media, she treats shadows, doors and transitional spaces as metaphors for the unstable boundary between inner and outer worlds.

Since moving to Spain in 2020, Lemesheva has become increasingly interested in how light alters familiar objects and how a person becomes visible—or remains unseen—within a new environment. In her Shadows series, an ephemeral phenomenon becomes the principal subject; in recent relief works made with papier-mache, the shadow acquires a physical body of its own. Her Doors series considers thresholds as places of invitation, distance and choice.

Alongside these projects, Lemesheva paints small observational works from life. These studies of Mediterranean light, domestic objects and landscape form a quieter strand of the same enquiry: how attention transforms the ordinary and how a place gradually becomes familiar.

Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov, Russian Academy of Arts — Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
Higher School of Economics (HSE University) — Contemporary Art, online course, Russia

Selected exhibitions:
2026 “Open Doors, Open Futures,” Young European Movement, England
2025 Art3F, Paris, France
2025 Salon Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2025 Buat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2024 Gallery MIIM, Barcelona, Spain
2024 “Royal Academy Pushkin – the Soul of Russia,” Ostafyevo Museum, Russia
2023 “The Artist’s Path,” Gallery SALT, Moscow, Russia
2023 FIABARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Almenara Art Prize, Spain
2023 “There Is a House,” Solntsevo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2023 “The Path to Light,” Ryazan Museum named after Pozhalostin, Ryazan, Russia
2023 “MEAM Hall,” MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
2023 “SVOYASI,” All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow, Russia
2023 “Conversation with the Master,” Egoryevsk Historical and Art Museum, Egoryevsk, Russia
2023 “Inspired by Kolomna,” Ozerov House-Museum, Kolomna, Russia
2022 “A. S. Griboedov, Devoted to You,” Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia
2022 “Approving Beauty...,” Lipetsk Regional History Art Museum, Lipetsk, Russia
2022 “East and Tender and Brilliant,” Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia
2022 “N. Gumilev – Poet, Warrior, Traveler,” Cairo, Egypt
2022 Fearisart online project
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