Natalia Kukunet Dolgova

Natalia Dolgova is a contemporary painter working between Denmark and the United Kingdom. Her practice is rooted in long-term observation of northern territories and the human presence within extreme landscapes, where light, silence, memory, and myth form a living cultural continuum rather than a decorative motif.

Working primarily with large-scale oil painting and mixed media, Dolgova builds complex visual environments that explore Arctic and North Atlantic spaces, coastal communities, boats, and transitional zones between nature and inner perception. Her works are not illustrative narratives but painterly constructions of atmosphere, time, and embodied experience. Light functions as a structural element — shaping space, emotional depth, and the sense of timelessness embedded in northern landscapes.

Dolgova’s artistic language emerges from sustained field research, travel, and direct engagement with local environments and cultural memory. Conversations with communities, prolonged observation of landscape rhythms, and material experimentation in the studio inform each series. Rather than documenting reality, her paintings translate lived experience into layered visual structures where myth and contemporary perception intersect.

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Baron Stieglitz Art Academy, St. Petersburg.

Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg
Kirsten Kjærs Museum, Denmark
Exhibition Hall of Jyllands-Posten, Copenhagen
The Greenlandic House (Det Grønlandske Hus), Copenhagen
Magadan Regional Art Museum, Russia