In the framework of our series of talks with cultural workers from Vienna, we are aiming at making knowledge on the Viennese cultural sector accessible to all. We want to explore, how programs are created, what access points there are for artists and how inclusive they are.

For this event we are visiting the art fair vienna contemporary and have a guided tour with the guide, artist and curator Natalia Gurova.

Natalia Gurova is a temporary journalist and permanent artist. She was born in the USSR in Belarus, grew up in the North of Russia, then trained as a journalist, and worked in the field of various media for more than 10 years. Since 2014 she lives in Vienna and studied site-specific art at the University of Applied Arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Her multidisciplinary practice has encompassed sculpture, printmaking, drawing, poetry, site-specific installations and curating. Working with the overlapping discourses of speculative storytelling, spatial experiments, post-soviet contexts, time concepts, and collecting, Gurova refuses categorical distinctions, operating fluidly between concept and craft. Her practice weaves together disparate artistic disciplines as well as cultural and social communities — with shared relationships to the essence of objects, and their symbolism. Natalia’s works were exhibited at Vienna Art Week, Vienna Design Week, Parallel, Austrian Cultural Forum in London, Queer museum/Volkskundemuseum, Galerie Michaela Stock, Improper Walls, das Weisse Haus, hoast, Belvedere 21 Haus. She co-curated student shows at Exhibit Studio, the Academy of Fine Arts, together with Vik Bayer, and organized exhibition projects and events for Office Ukraine in Vienna.