Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster, 2024

Nataliia Krykun  

The Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding series explores the quiet beauty and dynamic spirit of winter landscapes through a minimalist visual language. Sculpted with white three-dimensional plaster, each artwork transforms snow-covered mountains into tactile compositions where texture, light, and shadow become the primary elements of expression. The monochromatic palette emphasizes the purity of winter, allowing the relief surface to reveal changing forms as natural light moves across it.

Tiny figures of skiers and snowboarders appear within the vast alpine scenery, creating a subtle dialogue between humanity and nature. Their presence highlights both the excitement of winter sports and the peaceful solitude found in the mountains. Reduced to simple silhouettes, the people become universal symbols of exploration, freedom, and the desire to connect with the landscape.

The raised plaster surfaces evoke snowdrifts, mountain ridges, and untouched slopes, inviting viewers to experience the artwork not only visually but also through its sculptural presence. Rather than documenting specific locations, the series captures the emotional atmosphere of alpine environments—the crisp mountain air, the silence after fresh snowfall, and the exhilaration of movement across open terrain.

Balancing contemporary abstraction with recognizable forms, Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding celebrates the harmony between adventure and stillness. Each work offers a timeless reflection on winter’s serene beauty, encouraging moments of contemplation while recalling the joy, freedom, and enduring connection between people and the majestic mountain landscape.

BIOGRAPHY

Nataliia Krykun, is a Ukrainian Austrian ultra-contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna, Austria. 

Her works capture the serene yet powerful spirit of nature through a distinctive fusion of abstract minimalism and impressionism. Krykun draws inspiration from Nature, boundless horizons, shifting light, and meditative rhythms of the ocean.

Krykun’s approach is deeply intuitive, allowing color and light to guide her process. By reducing visual elements to their essential lines and hues, she evokes a timeless sense of space and depth. Her work often resonates with viewers as both a personal sanctuary and a universal nature memory, transcending geography and speaking to the human longing for openness and freedom.   

Her signature blue–turquoise artworks are an invitation into a world of quiet contemplation, where the horizon becomes a meeting point between reality and imagination. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas, she distils vast impressions seascape and impressions landscape into pure forms, subtle textures, and layered tonal harmonies. Each painting is a study in stillness and movement — a balance between the expansive calm of minimalism and the emotive brushwork of impressionism.

Krykun has participated in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs worldwide, including VOLTA Basel, Paris Contemporary Art Fair, ArtVilnius, CONTEXT Art Fair during Art Basel Week Miami, Artexpo New York, Affordable Art Fair in London and The Other Art Fair (Saatchi Gallery), ARTMUC in Munich, and exhibitions in Austria’s Krems Museum within the historic Dominican Church. She continued her studies at the University of Arts Linz 2025-2026, Austria.

A significant milestone in her career was her participation in the Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia, in the group project “The Shadow of a Dream Cast Upon Giardini della Biennale.”