Nataliya Zuban
Studio Grant holder in Göteborg, 1 April 2026–31 May 2026
Nataliya Zuban is an artist based between the Netherlands and Ukraine whose practice
spans sculpture, installation, video, and kinetic media. Her work engages with memory,
trauma, and the material traces of historical and personal events, with a focus on fragility,
transformation, and cycles of creation and destruction. Working across unstable and
process-driven forms, she develops sculptural environments in which matter operates
simultaneously as structure and agent of change. Through systems that shift, erode, or
collapse over time, her installations evoke states of curiosity, uncertainty, and tension,
reflecting on vulnerability as a shared human and political condition.
During her residency at IASPIS, Nataliya Zuban will experiment with and test prototypes for a kinetic installation focused on tension and duration. The project examines how fragile structures behave under pressure, how time functions as an active element in sculpture, and how kinetic systems shape changing spatial and sensory experiences.
Photo: Rozalina Busel
Nataliya Zuban
Nataliya Zuban holds an Interdisciplinary PhD from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art
and Design, Wroclaw, Poland (2018–2021), and BFA/MFA degrees, Ceramic major, from
Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine (2009–2015). Recent residencies include
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2023–2025); Senter for keramisk kunst, Ringebu, Norway
(2023); Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (2022); and EKWC, Oisterwijk, The
Netherlands (2022).
Solo and group exhibitions include Coexistence, RAM Gallery, Oslo (2023); WARÚM
DARÚM WARÚM DARÚM WARÚM, Loods6, Amsterdam (2025); Migration, Ariana
Museum, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); Zenith, MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum,
Poland (2019); and Voyage of Discovery, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea (2017).