Delnara El

My name is Natalia (Delnara is my creative pseudonym). I'm from Ukraine. I'm a full-time artist, my passion is painting and travel. For seven years I traveled to different countries of Europe and Asia continuously, lived and painted for a long time in different cities.
Right now I’m reevaluating my artistic practices and all those experiences and impressions I got while travelling. I’m working on a new series, using the polysemy of the concept of “migration”, while trying to find new facets of the multicultural and multiethnic society.

I use a dynamic worldview, rejection of a settled way of life and migration as tools to re-actualise my “mental map”, as a way to see more clearly and get rid of automatic perception. Being a nomad used as a cognitive tool in the artistic field allows space for miracles and manifestations of life itself.

Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, master's degree in the reconstruction of buildings and structures

Personal exhibitions:

2024 Mediterranean. Kalkan Culture House, Kalkan, Turkey
2023 IMPRINT. Impressions of war. Squat 17B, Kyiv, Ukraine

Group exhibitions:

2024
• Circle 2024. CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
• NFT.NYC. North Javits, Hudson Yards, Times Square, New York, USA
• Posters for Peace. Peace Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Surreal Exhibition. The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Membranes. The eARTh Gallery, London, UK
• The 38th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition group exhibition. Agora Gallery, New York, USA
• The Man Who Planted Trees. Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK
• Stand Up! Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
• WOMEN IN ART. Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA
• Metamorphosis: Exploring Transformation Through Art. Cista Arts, London, UK
• Imaginarium Exhibition. Artly Mix - Cultural Space, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Digital Art, Assemblage, Paper Collage. Limner Gallery, New York, USA
• We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall. Creative Health Camden, London, UK
• ART GENERATION - International Contemporary Art Festival. Hotel Olavi, Savonlinna, Finland
• Another Badger in the Wall. Badger in the Wall Gallery, Clapham, North Yorkshire, UK
• Pained contemplation. War...