Irene Naraeva

Painter and visual artist. Forms in transformation. A Dutch artist working across painting and other visual media, Naraeva has been active since 2002 and has lived and worked in the Netherlands since 2022.
Painting is at the centre of her practice. Alongside it, she works with collage, assemblage, digital print and video. Her visual language moves between abstraction and figuration, using transformation of form, layering, fragmentation and deliberate distortion of reality to explore emotional and existential experience.
Transformation is a recurring principle throughout the work of Naraeva. She is interested in states of transition, the ways in which forms emerge, change, dissolve and reappear, and how one state can carry traces of another. Across painting and digital media, natural forms, human figures, cities and other familiar images are transformed through shifts in form, scale and perspective, becoming unstable and open to new interpretations.
Her ongoing Metamorphoses series explores one of the central expressions of this broader idea, the relationship between human beings and nature. Trees and natural forms acquire anthropomorphic qualities, evoking bodies and figures and becoming carriers of memory and witnesses of time. Bo...

Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia - University Degree in Mechanical Engineering, equivalent to Bachelor and Master level

Professional Program in Interior Design and Decoration

Technical and Engineering Drawing - Extensive experience in technical drawing, engineering graphics, spatial construction and visualization

Selected Exhibitions and Art Projects
2026
Verlangen naar elders - Art Project, Book Publication and Exhibition - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
Solo Exhibition - Bistrocafe Loft, Land of Free Thought, The Hague, the Netherlands
Lentesalon 2026 - Kadmium, Delft, the Netherlands
NIEUW 2026 - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
2025
Metamorphoses - Solo Exhibition - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
Herfstsalon 2025 - Kadmium, Delft, the Netherlands
De kwetsbare Nederlandse natuur - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
DUOS - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
NAVO EXPO - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
ENTREE - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
NIEUW 2025 - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
2024
ONTHEEMD - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
De Zee, de zee - Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, the Netherlands
2019-2020
Collective projects and exhibitions - Bubble Art Projects, the Netherlands and London, United Kingdom
Collective exhibitions - Minima Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Exhibitions - Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2016-2018
ARS Hortus Festival - Aptekarsky Garden, Moscow, Russia
Red and Black - International Exhibition Pr...