Nika Neelova
Overview
Born in Moscow, Russia; lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2011 MA Fine Art Sculpture, Slade School of Art, London, UK
2008 BA Fine Art Interdisciplinary, Royal Art Academy, The Hague
Works
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Principles of Surrender, 2010 -
Scaffold Today, Monument Tomorrow..., 2011
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Burning Meteors Leave no Dust, 2013
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Principles of Infinity, 2013
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Fragments Shored Against the Ruins, 2013
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I lean to you numb as a fossil. Tell me i’m here, 2014
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After you left they took it apart, 2014
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untitled (folded studio), 2015
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untitled (stack of chairs), 2015
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Lemniscate I, 2017
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Lemniscate IV, 2017
News
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Nika Neelova interview: Everything in the world around us is constantly undoing and you can just grasp a moment of it – Studio International – Veronica Simpson 15 November 2021LINK TO ARTICLE Silt Brighton CCA Brighton, BN2 0JY 22 October – 22 December 2021 LINK TO EXHIBITION The artist talks about how her multilingual...Read more -
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CELINE: New London Store Captures Hedi Slimane's Exacting Sense of Taste. Including a new series of art commissions, and furniture made by the designer himself. – HypeBeast – HB Team 10 November 2021LINK TO ARTICLE Hedi Slimane’s aesthetic sense is famously precise, combining as it does his encyclopaedic knowledge of modern and contemporary art, his fondness for...Read more -
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Celine New Bond Street: a carnival of materials, furniture and art – Wallpaper – Dal Chodha 10 November 2021LINK TO ARTICLE The French maison opens Celine New Bond Street, an art-filled flagship store in central London. Commissioned artworks by Nika Neelova and Leilah...Read more -
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INTUITIVE GEOMETRIES: women making contemporary sculpture – A yellowfields publication 13 October 2020CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY A yellowfields publication featuring artist and curator texts; • Sloe Gin / The Foot Cage / Averaging by Olivia...Read more -
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DRIFTS (THERE IS ALWAYS GROUND, EVEN AT NIGHT) 29 August 2018MLF | MARIE-LAURE FLEISCH 13 rue Saint-Georges | Sint-Jorisstraat 1050 Ixelles | Brussells 7 September – 18 October 2018 EVENT DETAILS MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch...Read more -
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XVII. The Age of Nymphs 31 October 2017XVII. The Age of Nymphs Mimosa House 12 Princes Street, London W1B 2LL 10 November 2017 – 13 January 2018 EVENT DETAILS Featuring works by...Read more -
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13 September 2017Theatre of the Absurd Green Gallery 8 17 St, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 13 September – 21 November 2017 EVENT DETAILS Green Art Gallery is...Read more -
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Art Research Map – Catarina Vaz 19 April 2017Independent Brussels Vanderborght Building, Schildknaapstraat, 50 Rue de l'Ecuyer, 1000 Brussels 19 – 23 April 2017 LINK TO ARTFAIR Nika Neelova is one of the...Read more -
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EXHIBITS IN MOSCOW 3 March 2017Blue.Seventeen Osnova Gallery 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, 1/6 105120, Moscow, Russia 3 March – 9 April 2017 EVENT DETAILS Curator: Sasha Burkhanova Participating artists: Olga Grotova,...Read more -
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EXHIBITS IN GERMANY 22 February 2017Leidenschaft (Passion). Focus Pierre Soulages Museum Art.Plus Museumsweg 1, corner Josefstraß e, 78166 Donaueschingen 19 February 2017 – 21 January 2018 EVENT DETAILS The exhibition...Read more -
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INCLUDED IN 26 January 2017Seventeen Centrala Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RT 27 January – 25 March 2017 EVENT DETAILS Artists include: Olga Grotova, Nika...Read more -
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RESIDENCY 29 June 2016Wysing Arts Centre Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX EVENT DETAILS Ten artists have been selected for Syllabus II, a national programme delivered by Wysing...Read more -
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27 May 2014I Lean To You, Numb as a Fossil. Tell Me I'm Here. Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam 24.05.2014 - 21.06.2014 I lean to you numb as...Read more -
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THE CRISIS COMMISSION, Strand Gallery and Christie's, London – ArtLyst 6 May 2014READ MORE The Crisis Commission sees leading contemporary artists unite to bring major new works to a spectaucular exhibition. People who have experienced homelessness and...Read more -
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1 March 2014LICHTSPIELE MUSEUM BIEDERMANN 16TH OF MARCH - 2ND OF NOVEMBER 2014 ARTISTS INCLUDE: WIM BOTHA PIZZI CANNELLA FRANCOIS MORELLET NIKA NEELOVA ANNETTE SAUERMANN Lichtspiele im...Read more -
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NIKA NEELOVA @ GALERIA MARIO SEQUEIRA, PORTUGAL 3 August 2013GREAT MEN DIE TWICE CURATED BY JASON MARTIN 2013: GREAT MEN DIE TWICE - CASA DA CULTURA DA COMPORTA, COMPORTA, PORTUGAL The title of this...Read more
Exhibitions
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SILT – Brighton CCA 22 October - 22 December 2021Brighton CCA Brighton, BN2 0JY Silt is an exhibition of new work by Russian born artist Nika Neelova examining our cultural and physical relationship to water. The exhibition centres on...Read more -
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ONE OF MANY FRAGMENTS – EDWARD ALLINGTON & NIKA NEELOVA – New Art Centre, Salisbury 11 September - 20 November 2021New Art Centre Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury SP5 1BG DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE The show presents a dialogue between the work of the late Edward Allington, who came to prominence...Read more -
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EVER – The Tetley, Leeds 20 June - 8 September 2019The Tetley The Tetley, Hunslet Road Leeds LS10 1JQ DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE EVER is Nika Neelova's first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, presenting new and existing...Read more -
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GLYPHS. CURATED BY DOMENICO DE CHERICO – Noir Gallery, Turin 11 April - 10 May 2019Noir Gallery, Turin EXHIBITION PDFRead more -
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FAULTS FOLDS FALLS – Vigo Gallery, London 16 December 2015 - 23 January 2016Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CV DOWNLOAD CREATIVE ESSAY BY NIKA NEELOVA “Life is not life but rock rearranging itself under the sun” Manuel DeLanda “There is a deeper reason why ‘humanity’...Read more -
KADAR BROCK – HEYWOOD & CONDIE – LEONARDO DREW – HENRY KROKATSIS – PENNY LAMB – DUNCAN MACASKILL – NIKA NEELOVA – GABRIE
BRAND NEW SECOND HAND – Vigo Gallery, London 14 October - 10 November 2014Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery presents Brand New Second Hand , an exhibition that brings together 14 international artists in whose practice destruction and creation are intertwined, who create new forms...Read more -
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FRAGMENTS SHORED AGAINST THE RUINS – Vigo Gallery, London 12 April - 3 May 2013Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Nika Neelova creates current sculptures that derive from selected past and hypothetical future naratives. Exploring the notion of the ruin, the work is addressing segments of existence...Read more
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