"If only..." (2024) Original Oil Painting by Nina Grigel

Oil on canvas, removable beaded element on magnets.
The painting is dedicated to the Sami people living in Sweden.
The Sami are a small Fino–Ugric people, the only European people officially recognized as the "indigenous" people of Northern Europe.
It all started with them.
Then others came…
All that was left to the old Sami was a shop near the house, a national costume and thoughts about unborn children, as their people turned out to be "ethnically inferior inhabitants" for the government of their country, subject to sterilization.
Ghosts running across a snowy field are translucent, with running deer inside them, a symbol of unborn children.
Above all, the blue beads of the moon.

Selected Exhibitions
2025–2026 – Solo Exhibition at Naprotiv Gallery
2025 – SberUniversity "New Horizons", Moscow Region
2024 – "A Word About the Russian Heart" Festival, Beijing
2024 – ArtExpo New York 2024, New York
2024 – La Pigna Gallery, Rome
2024 – ArtPlay Moscow, Kvartiras Gallery, Moscow
2024 – Pavlodar City Museum, Kazakhstan
2023 – Shanghai International Art Fair (SIAF), Shanghai
2023 – "Zdes na Taganke" Gallery, Moscow
2022 – ArtDom, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 – Kibart, Moscow
2021 – International Exhibition Competition of Futuristic Art, Moscow
2021 – Artplay, Moscow
2021 – Finalist, Russian Art Awards, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
2021 – International Exhibition "SCOLKOVO Plaza ArtShow", Moscow
2021 – Art Cosmos, Evraziya Gallery, Moscow
2021 – Online Exhibition & Competition "Sbornaya Solianka", Alipova Gallery
Collections
2023 – Lucy Chebotina Charity Auction, Private Collection
Publications
Art MUSE Magazine – "Art Survey" column, 2024, Issue No. 18

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 150 x 100cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: People and portraits