Natalia Turnova. Solo Exhibition
At the heart of Natalia Turnova’s work lies a deep exploration of human passions, emotional intensity, and psychological complexity. Fear, love, pain, and anger — feelings that often elude rational control — are recurring themes in her painting. The portrait genre becomes her primary means of giving form to these elusive inner states, serving as a precise and expressive tool for their visual embodiment.
The exhibition brings together selected series created over the years, alongside a new body of work that Turnova has developed in recent years and is now being presented to the public for the first time.

5.03.2025—1.06.2025

March 5 – June 1, 2025
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Natalia Turnova: The Unofficial Portrait
For Natalia Turnova, portraiture is a way of seeing and reflecting. It is both a generalized image that channels collective emotions and traumas, and a form of self-portraiture that reveals the artist’s intense focus on her own inner life. Working in series — a hallmark of Turnova’s practice — allows her to deeply immerse herself in the emotional phenomena she explores: personal and societal pressure points such as the fear of loneliness and aging, manifestations of cruelty and aggression, the experience of loss and abandonment.
Each of Turnova’s projects is a self-contained statement, yet when shown together, they may also be read as a kind of visual diary — albeit one rendered on a monumental scale, unusual for the diaristic genre.
Alongside selected series from previous years, the exhibition features for the first time a new cycle of paintings