NATA CHEBARKOVA | «NON-LONELINESS: Immigrant Adaptation Through Expressive Abstract Painting»
20 Agosto 2026 16h00
NATA CHEBARKOVA
NON-LONELINESS: Immigrant Adaptation Through Expressive Abstract Painting
Open Studio | 21-22-23 August 2026, 16:00-20:00
Artist Talk | 21 August 2026, 17:30
Artist Talk | 21 August 2026, 17:30
Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea presents NON-LONELINESS, an Open Studio exhibition by artist-in-residence Nata Chebarkova.
NON-LONELINESS is a visual diary of adapting to an unfamiliar place. Developed during her residency at Zaratan in Lisbon, the project explores how a territory gradually becomes familiar through attention, movement, and everyday experience — and how one can feel connected even when living and travelling alone.
The studio becomes a labyrinth: the whole path is never visible at once, just as we cannot know the entire journey when entering a new place. As the viewer moves through it, they encounter fragments of Chebarkova’s experience in Lisbon — rubbings of local surfaces such as pavements, doors, and manholes; abstract paintings made on receipts and packaging using the colours of the city; fragments of inner dialogue, doubts, questions, and states of mind; and natural materials collected during her travels, including sand, charcoal, branches, and flowers.
The works are created and transformed throughout the residency, becoming a record of a gradual relationship with the place. Painting becomes both a way of documenting the territory and a practice of presence — a reason to slow down, observe, collect, and remain connected to the world around.
NON-LONELINESS is a visual diary of adapting to an unfamiliar place. Developed during her residency at Zaratan in Lisbon, the project explores how a territory gradually becomes familiar through attention, movement, and everyday experience — and how one can feel connected even when living and travelling alone.
The studio becomes a labyrinth: the whole path is never visible at once, just as we cannot know the entire journey when entering a new place. As the viewer moves through it, they encounter fragments of Chebarkova’s experience in Lisbon — rubbings of local surfaces such as pavements, doors, and manholes; abstract paintings made on receipts and packaging using the colours of the city; fragments of inner dialogue, doubts, questions, and states of mind; and natural materials collected during her travels, including sand, charcoal, branches, and flowers.
The works are created and transformed throughout the residency, becoming a record of a gradual relationship with the place. Painting becomes both a way of documenting the territory and a practice of presence — a reason to slow down, observe, collect, and remain connected to the world around.
BIO | NATA CHEBARKOVA (b. 1991) is an expressive abstract artist based in Limassol, Cyprus. She graduated from Ulyanovsk State University, Russia, with degrees in Industrial Design and Academic Art. Chebarkova’s artistic practice is centered on themes of inner freedom, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation. Working primarily through abstract painting, she also engages with performance and installation, exploring the boundaries of human perception, identity, and the relationship between the individual and the divine. She is a member of the Association of Mediterranean Artists (AMA Cyprus) and the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts (E.KA.TE), founder of the ARRT creative community, and works at the contemporary art gallery XeniArtSpace in Cyprus. Her exhibition projects include Inner Space at Entire VC (Limassol, 2023), Unravelling the Layers at The Seed Gallery & Cornaro Art Institute (Limassol, 2023), and The Emotions of Spring at Chemisov Art.G (Paphos, 2025). In 2021, Chebarkova received the Talent Prize in the Abstraction category from Art Show International Gallery (Los Angeles, USA). Her works are held in private collections across Europe, Russia, the UAE, Canada, and the United States.
LINK | https://natachebarkova.com/
SUPPORT | Zaratan is a structure supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes.