Nika Neelova
The British artist Nika Neelova was born in Moscow in 1987 and has lived and worked in London since 2008. Her sometimes sprawling works transplant us to a world in which time seems out of joint. Neelova wants her viewers to experience the idea of time, which she conceives of as nonlinear, and stimulate their sense for the poetic and playfulness, their inquisitiveness and curiosity.
Neelova works exclusively with found objects and materials. She has a remarkable gift for scrutinizing perfectly ordinary things from a wide variety of perspectives and presenting them in novel ways. Her works are like artifacts that exert a powerful pull, carrying the beholders along on a tide of time; meanwhile, they are very much committed to the present in their formal-aesthetic modesty and the clinical perspective they frame on human civilization.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2025 Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2024 beghost, Nika Project Space Dubai, UAE
2023 thaw, Noire gallery Turin
2023 Very Like a Whale, Santozeum, Santorini, Greece
2022 ECC Project, Chieri, Turin ECContemporary
2021 SILT, Brighton CCA
2021 [ъ] [ы] [ь] curated by Garage MCA at Voznecensky Tsentr, Moscow
2021 One of Many Fragments. Edward Allington &Nika Neelova, New Art Centre
2019 EVER, The Tetley, Leeds 2018 DRIFTS (there is always ground, even at night), MLF Brussels
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024 “I miti dell’arte contemporanea” Fondazione Puglisi a Catania
2024 Frieze Sculpture Park with Noire Gallery, curated by Fatos Ustek, London
2024 Ordine e disordine, Noire gallery, Turin
2023 Ephemeral Structures, Nika Project Space, Dubai
2022 (Everything is) Not What it Seems, NITJA Museum, Oslo
2021 Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2021
2020 Silence is so accurate, Geukens de Vil, Antwerp
Awards
2021 A_N Artist Bursaries
2020 Arts Council England Grant
