Natalija Gucheva (she/they)


(1998, Skopje) | Based in Ghent, Belgium
                                   
Gucheva is an artist who explores spirituality in contemporary society by working across various mediums. She believes that spirituality is multidimensional and complex, and her work seeks to address this complexity by examining our relationship with nature, the divine, and the communities we find ourselves in.

She invites us to imagine a post-human world, where our relationship with technology, nature, and spirituality is transformed. She encourages us to think about our own personal utopias and to consider how we can contribute to a better future through re-imagining our relationship with the world around us and embracing a more holistic and interconnected way of being.

Currently pursuing her master's degree in Fine Arts at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, Belgium.

Next on view:
- (re)birth / you melt my heart / 29 April t/w 28th May / ExBunker, Utrecht 
- Oasis of Wonder / 23 June / Ruigoord, Amsterdam

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Natalija Gucheva (she/they)


(1998, Skopje) | Based in Ghent, Belgium

Gucheva is an artist who explores spirituality in contemporary society by working across various mediums. She believes that spirituality is multidimensional and complex, and her work seeks to address this complexity by examining our relationship with nature, the divine, and the communities we find ourselves in.

She invites us to imagine a post-human world, where our relationship with technology, nature, and spirituality is transformed. She encourages us to think about our own personal utopias and to consider how we can contribute to a better future through re-imagining our relationship with the world around us and embracing a more holistic and interconnected way of being.

Currently pursuing her master's degree in Fine Arts at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, Belgium.

Next on view:
- (re)birth / you melt my heart / 29 April t/w 28th May / ExBunker, Utrecht
- Oasis of Wonder / 23 June / Ruigoord, Amsterdam

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(re)birth / you melt my heart


We live in a constant cycle of destruction and rejuvenation. The Earth is changing. We are changing. How will a potential post-human life evolve and shape new visions of the world?

Four Fine Art students from the HKU (NL) and KASK (BE) explore these questions and reimagine them in a site specific installation here at the ExBunker. New ground is given for nature to start sprouting again and artefacts from a lost past will emerge, intertwined with contemporary and past habits. The Bunker is transformed into a space of potential life that will survive even in an apocalyptic scenario, similar to the Svalbard Global Seed Centre in Norway, harbouring its seeds and giving them the opportunity to flourish again, giving rise to a new landscape that goes beyond the known geographical and social boundaries. The installation comes to life, grows and reveals traces of a long gone past, frozen in time, conjuring a speculative reality that is not far from the truth.

“...The objects, each possessing a mystery, can take on the roll of a relic of time. Past, present and future blend in the divergent shapes, and create new archives - ones that exist within our perception, and weave a portal to another realm. They generate a place of transition, of wild growth and new breeding grounds. Experimental labs, where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being hidden. It is a place where our imagination can mutate, expand, shape, a new layer of reality - one that can merge worlds. We think of the dance of the nymphs, satyrs and water sprites in the muddy water, embracing the diversity of nature, and protecting the sacred habitat of shadows. We think of the (re)birth of a new-age habitat, a space where spirits collide. The amulets, oracles and vessels exhibited, entail a new energy, a contemporary homage to a lost past, with the ability to fertilise new grounds for a new dance - one in alliance with the past, and speculative of new beginnings.”

Groupshow by 

Katharina Busl
Junhao Xiang
Vincent Entekhabi 
& myself

Photography credits go to Vincent Entekhabi