Yuma Radné

Overview
Yuma Radné
“For me, painting is like riding a horse at high speed while watching the sun going down.” - Yuma Radné
A descendant of the Buryats, a Mongolian Indigenous group, Yuma Radné is heavily inspired by her heritage. Her work celebrates the ancient traditions, rituals, and beliefs of her people, while refusing orientalist misinterpretations. Her experiences are transformed into sensitive and poetic paintings in which figures dance, whisper and gaze through dreamlike sequences and landscapes. For Radné, the use of colour is a formal consideration, but also a symbolic one: her blues reference a Mongolian saying that translates to, “Under the great blue sky, there are blue Mongol people”. 
 
Having rejected her classical training in place of a surreal and otherworldly painting practice, her narrative-driven pieces tell age-old stories in a new light: They are infused with creation tales and origin myths, seeking to materialise her vision of the essence of our world as an elemental creative force from which all things derive.
Biography
Yuma Radné
Yuma Radné (b.2001) lives and works between London and Vienna. She recently studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, having previously been enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Shtiglitz Academy in St. Petersburg.
 
Radné has presented solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions including: the National Museum of Art of the Republic Buryatia (2018), Bloom Galerie, Saint-Tropez (2023) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023). She has an upcoming solo show with Alice Folker Gallery in Copenhagen. Her work was presented at Art Fair Bordeaux with Bloom Galerie (2023); Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen and Vienna Contemporary with Steve Turner (both 2023), Untitled Miami with Steve Turner (2024) and will be presented at Future Fair in New York with Newcube later this year.
 
Her work has work has been included in group exhibitions with galleries internationally, including: Fiumano Clase, London (2023); STUDIO WEST, London (2023); Gayt Gallery, Vienna (2022); Hilger Next Gallery, Vienna (2022); Ars Pro Dono Gallery, Berlin (2021); Zaluu Centre, Ulaan Ude, Russia (2021); Exhibit Studio, Vienna (2021); Semperdepot Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2021) and Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan (2020) among others.
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