STATEMENT
As human beings, we live in a world shaped by both visible and invisible forces — natural rhythms, emotional landscapes, and technological structures. Verbal language often falls short in capturing the complexity of these experiences. For me, painting is a way to translate the unspoken — a visual language through which I explore transformation, memory, and connection.
Having lived across continents and immersed myself in many cultures, I’ve learned to observe the world from multiple perspectives. This sense of movement and multiplicity permeates my work. I create layered compositions that draw from nature, science, and inner worlds — works that invite viewers to pause, reflect, and enter into dialogue with what is both personal and universal.
In my series PHENOMENA, I reflect on the quiet and dramatic shifts in the natural world — from tides and sunsets to earthquakes and melting glaciers. I use pixel-like squares to represent fragments of change — data, memory, or energy — assembling visual rhythms that echo how transformation often unfolds: slowly, invisibly, or in sudden rupture.
In INFINITY, I turn to the vastness of time and space, inspired by scientific imagery of both the micro and macro cosmos. These works explore how repetition and form can express the interconnectedness of all things — where the cellular and the celestial mirror one another. Each piece becomes a meditation on what is infinite yet deeply familiar.
In SPACES, I explore imagined environments that merge memory, nature, and human structure. These works are internal landscapes — emotional architectures that suggest stillness, fragility, and presence. They offer the viewer a quiet invitation to wander, look inward, and rediscover the poetry of place.
Across all my work, I use abstraction to distill complexity. Through rhythm, texture, and light, I seek to evoke moments of transition — spaces between knowing and sensing, between form and feeling. My aim is not to explain, but to open — to offer a space where the viewer can find their own meaning.
ABOUT
I’m an artist currently based in Breda, The Netherlands, originally from Russia. My journey began in architecture, but living across countries like Belgium, Chile, the U.S., and now the Netherlands, painting has become my way of processing and expressing the world around me.
I began creating art seriously after moving to Santiago, Chile in 2017, where I became part of a close-knit community of artists. In 2020, I deepened my practice through studies in Art History and Contemporary Gallery Management at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
While living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I exhibited both independently and with galleries, including a solo show at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2024, I relocated to Breda, where I continue developing new work that reflects my ongoing exploration of place, memory, and transformation.
My practice is shaped by movement — across geographies, disciplines, and inner landscapes. Through abstraction and layered visual language, I seek to create quiet spaces for reflection, dialogue, and emotional connection.
ELENA GURYEVA 