Nadya Korotaeva

Nadya Korotaeva is a Russian artist, based in Bali. She works in three directions: abstraction, portrait and performance. Bali has become for her place of transformation, there Nadya started to create contemporary art. She takes inspiration from her surroundings, creative people, musicians, dancers, nature, from all over the island which filled with mystery and divine love. Her artworks are very emotional, expressive, colorful, she works on big canvas. Nadya has started her artist’s path at age 7. In 1993-2003 she studied at Sergei Dyagilev's Art School in Ekaterinburg, Russia. After in 2003-2009 she was educated as an Industrial and Graphic designer at Ural State University of Architecture and Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Then she moved in Moscow and studied there the Illustration at British Higher School of Art and Design. Since 2015 she lives in Bali. Nadya had 2 solo exhibitions, participated in 7 group exhibitions and also made 7 performances in co-creation with different artists from another sphere of art. Of course the most important events were solo exhibitions on which she created full atmosphere with painting, performance and decorations in the form of a painting of about 15 meters long, similar to a carpet, a runway that unites space and people. Nadya Korotaeva thinks as an artist she has a power to communicate through her art with people from all World, to fill their live with beauty, love, freedom and even to unite them in the matter of solving global problems such as the exploitation of animals, nature, human.

EXHIBITIONS 01.01.2019 Solo exhibition “Sacral Green“, Sayuri, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 23.12.2018 Group exhibition “RAA”, Discovery Candidasa cottages & villas, Bali, Indonesia 10.11.2018 Group exhibition “Nouveau”, Oka Kartini gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 29.10.2018 Group exhibition “Integrity”, Batuan art museum, Gianyar, Bali Indonesia 07.05.2018 Solo exhibition “Blue rice field”, Bali Bohemia, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 03.06.2018 Group exhibition “Bali art expo”, Gate 88 gallery, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia 07.01.2018 Group exhibition “Vostok 18”, True love yoga art unity, Canggu, Bali, Indonesia EVENTS 08.04.2019 Performance “Art Therapy”, Workshop, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia (collaboration with Andi Rharharha and 1ESCV) 15.02.2019 Performance “Kabut Rasa“, Titi Batu, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 01.01.2019 Performance “Sacral Green“, Sayuri, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 23.12.2018 Performance “Endless Blue“, Discovery Candidasa cottages & villas, Bali, Indonesia 07.05.2018 Performance “Blue rice field”, Bali Bohemia, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 15.10.2017 Performance “Arts for children”, Sideman, Bali, Indonesia 09.09.2017 Performance, Black Market, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia

I started on my artist’s path at the age of 7. These were 10 years of studies in Sergey Dyagilev’s Art School in Yekaterinburg city, Russia. It was a time of experiments, beauty of a variety of colors, materials and forms, where your artistic self was valued and not confined by customer’s demands. The main subject was Composition, mostly abstract, which largely determined your visual language, pervaded your creativity, changed the way of thinking, taught to feel harmony. At 17 I entered Architectural Art Academy. After 6 years of studying, I have received professional education in Industrial and Graphic Design. It was the time when you were trying to find a balance between artistic expression and ergonomics, function, consumers and social environment. The main subject was the “Project”, which taught me design, a conscious creation of an object to be used for making human’s life easier and more beautiful. At 25 I finished a one-year intensive course of Illustration at British Higher School of Art and Design. Time when you are freed from an overly serious attitude for a mission of designer or an artist, when you can be non-commercial, ridiculous, a time of depth and revolt. Illustration taught me to tell a story, to think serially. It was the first step to important liberation of the mind from any rules of visual arts. At 28 I moved to Bali. At this moment of my life I am very glad to return to myself, to abstract painting, to my inner 7 year old one, having passed through very important stages, gaining experience in different directions. All my works are about freedom, about the path that comes from the heart.