Amsterdam · NL Contemporary Artist Index — 2022 / 2025

Natallia Paliashuk

Works on imprint, erosion, and system — material records of identity, surveillance, and the thresholds at which a surface surrenders.

I · The Work ↓

§ Biography

A practice in imprint, erosion, and system.

Portrait Amsterdam, 2025

Natallia Paliashuk is a contemporary artist working in mixed media, painting, and textile. Her practice treats the surface — skin, fabric, canvas, the urban street — as a record that keeps receiving what the world presses into it.

Three lines of enquiry organise the work. Imprint: what remains when identity is stamped, documented, or absorbed. Erosion: the moment a structure admits it cannot contain the pressure any longer. System: the grids, norms, and measurements that watch the body and decide what is legible.

Trained at HKU Utrecht, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and Breitner Academie, she works between Eastern European and Dutch frames of reference — an interest less in reconciliation than in the residue produced when the two are held together.

Based in: Amsterdam, NL
Trained: HKU Utrecht · Gerrit Rietveld Academie · Breitner Academie
Medium: Mixed media, painting, textile
Recent series: Inner Waters · Urban Osmosis · New Norms

The Work — Index

Chapter I

Imprint.

The surface as a record — skin, documents, urban wall — retaining every stamp, every pressure, every inherited pattern. What belongs to the self after the system has marked it?

Female silhouette with street textures integrated, vertical format

Imprint — fig. 01

Fig. 01

Urban Osmosis: Study I

2024–25

Female silhouette with street textures integrated, horizontal format

Imprint — fig. 02

Fig. 02

Urban Osmosis: Study III

2024–25

Figure with domestic patterns and textures integrated

Imprint — fig. 03

Fig. 03

Domestic Imprint

2024

Figure marked with stamps and official documents

Imprint — fig. 04

Fig. 04

Stamp of Nationality

2023

Projected official stamps cast over bare skin

Imprint — fig. 05

Fig. 05

Stamp of Nationality II

2023

Chapter II

Erosion.

The threshold at which a held thing stops holding. Inner waters rising, the first fissure radiating outward — documents of the moment structural integrity surrenders to accumulated pressure.

Figure submerged in water, exploring themes of vulnerability

Erosion — fig. 06

Fig. 06

Vulnerability

2025

Figure reaching beyond water surface, exploring transcendence

Erosion — fig. 07

Fig. 07

Beyond

2025

Abstract representation of thoughts dispersing like wind

Erosion — fig. 08

Fig. 08

Winds of Thought

2024

Deliberate fractures and cracks forming compositional elements

Erosion — fig. 09

Fig. 09

Controlled Fracture

2024

Vivid striped abstract composition expressing psychological tension

Erosion — fig. 10

Fig. 10

Structural Containment

2024

Circular cracked silver-grey textured canvas with centripetal fissures

Erosion — fig. 11

Fig. 11

Yield Point

2024

Chapter III

System.

The grid that watches. New norms, thermometry, aerial traces — the instruments by which a body is measured, mapped, and declared legible. Fabric, ink, and embroidery hold the residue of the reading.

Contemporary iconography exploring new cultural symbols

System — fig. 12

Fig. 12

Icon

2022

Figure with temperature measurement motifs, exploring bodily surveillance

System — fig. 13

Fig. 13

Thermometry

2022

Aerial view rendered on fabric with red embroidered accents

System — fig. 14

Fig. 14

Trace — aerial

2022

Street-level scene with hands printed on fabric and embroidered detail

System — fig. 15

Fig. 15

Trace — street

2022

§ Process

The work is built slowly, in layers.

Each piece begins as an empty surface and accumulates — pigment pressed in, found textures lifted from the street, fabric stitched and re-stitched. The process is durational by design. It records the time spent with the material as much as the image that emerges.

A running document of studio days lives on TikTok: mixing, sanding, waiting for layers to dry, the small decisions that don’t make it into the finished work.

Studio notes on TikTok — @palinata.art ↗

Still from an ASMR studio process document

Plate I · Studio, Amsterdam

Inquiries

Original works & commissions by correspondence.

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