b. 1987, Moscow Russia
Lives and works in London
Education
2011 MA Fine Art Sculpture, Slade School of Art, London
2008 BA Fine Art Interdisciplinary, Royal Art Academy, The Hague Selected solo
exhibitions
2026 Gyre, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London
2025 Cascade, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Through A Glass Darkly, Sir John Soane Museum London; umbra Komunuma, Paris ; 2024 beghost, Nika Project Space Dubai, UAE; 2023 thaw, Noire gallery, Turin; 2023 Very Like a Whale, Santozeum Museum, Santorini; 2021 SILT, Brighton CCA, UK; 2021 Celine Art Project, Celine London; 2021 One of Many Fragments. Edward Allington & Nika Neelova, New Art Centre; 2021 [ъ] [ы] [Б] Garage MCA, Moscow; 2019 EVER, The Tetley, Leeds; 2019 GLYPHS, Noire Gallery, Turin; 2018 DAMA curated by Domenico de Chirico & Giorgio Galotti, Turin; 2018 DRIFTS (there is always ground, even at night), MLF Brussels; 2017 Lemniscates, Independent, Brussels; 2016 FAULTS / FOLDS / FALLS, Vigo Gallery, London; 2014 I lean to you numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam; 2013 Fragments Shored against the Ruins, Vigo Gallery, London; 2013 Northern Taurids, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London; 2011 Monuments, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
Selected group exhibitions:
2026 The World Without Us, Lentos Museum, Linz; 2026 Offrandes, curated by Camille Brechignac, Komunuma Paris; 2026 The Women Artist of the Campiani Collection, Spazio Contemporanea Brescia; 2025 In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation, Focal Point Gallery & The Roberts Institute of Art, Southend-on-Sea, UK; 2025 Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Lovington Sculpture Meadow; 2025 EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED, Brutus, Rotterdam; 2025 Lot's Wife, Bolee & Workman, Bruton, UK; 2025 Strings Attached, Chapter II. Pipeline, London; 2025 Nomad Circle, Abu Dhabi; 2025 "I miti dell'arte contemporanea" Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Catania; 2024 Frieze Sculpture Park, curated by Fatos Ustek, London; 2024 Blocks & Grids, Stephane Simmons gallery, Knokke; 2024 Story yet to be told, Ortigia Contemporanea, Sicily; 2024 Ordine e disordine, Noire gallery, Turin; 2023 From Birth to Earth, Parafin, London; 2023 Ephemeral Structures, Nika Project Space, Dubai; 2023 (Everything is) Not What it Seems, Piran Museum of Visual Art, Slovenia; 2023 Fragments of time unending, Nika Project Space, Dubai; 2022 ECC Project, Chieri, Turin ECContemporary; 2022 (Everything is) Not What it Seems, NITJA Museum, Oslo; 2022 Flock, Bolee and Workman, Bruton, UK; 2021 Not Painting, Copperfield London; 2021 Frieze London with Allied Editions & Brighton CCA; 2021 A-N 40th Anniversary x Slow Install, A-N Newsletter; 2021 'Her Dark Materials'.
, curated by Philly Adams for The Eye of the Huntress; 2021 Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2021; 2020 Frieze London with Osnova Gallery; 2020 Special Projects, curated by Maria Abramenko, Cardi gallery London; 2020 Back to the origins, curated by Domenico de Chirico; 2020 Silence is so accurate, Geukens de Vil, Antwerp
2019 Hortus Conclusus, Fondazione 107, Turin; 2018 She sees the shadows, DRAF & Mostyn, UK; 2018 Prevent This Tragedy, Post-Institute London, UK; 2017 XVII. The Age of Nymphs, curated by Daria Khan, Mimosa House, London; 2017 Theatre of the Absurd, curated by Yasmin Atassi, Green Art Gallery, Dubai; 2017 Seventeen with Yelena Popova, Code, Copenhagen; 2017 The opposite of Now, Guest Projects, London; 2017 Blue Seventeen, Osnova, WinZavod Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; 2017 Seventeen, Centrala, Birmingham; 2017 Leidenschaft, Museum Biedermann, Germany; 2017 New Material, Art in Perpetuity Trust, Arts Council England, London; 2016 Habitus, curated by Matthew Burrows, The Observer Building, UK; 2016 A city without a sound, curated by Karina El-Helou, Averard Hotel, London; 2015 Archeology and Architecture, Fondazione 107, Turin; 2015 The Presence of Absence, curated by Paul Carey-Kent, London; 2015 The Sky is a mountain, Kunsthal 3,14, Norway; 2014 Brand New Second Hand, Vigo Gallery, London; 2014 Lichtspiele, Museum Biedermann, Germany; 2014 Warp and Woof, The Hole Gallery, New York; 2014 The Crisis Commission curated by Laurence Sillars, Christie's London; 2013 Great Men Die Twice, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Portugal; 2013 Gaiety is most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery; 2013 White Nights, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia; 2013 The Future Can Wait, Victoria House, London; 2012 Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award Exhibition, London; 2012 The Crisis Commission, Somerset House and Christie's London; 2012 Saatchi New Sensations and The Future Can Wait, Victoria House, London; 2011 Reworking Memories, Group Show, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; 2011 Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, United States; 2011 3 Worlds in 1, London International, Lithuania; 2010 Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4's New Sensations, Saatchi Gallery, London
Awards & residencies:
2024 Sir John Soane Museum Artist-in-residence, London; 2021 & 2025 A N Artist Bursaries; 2020 Arts Council England Grant; 2019 Arts Council England National Lottery Grant; 2019 Fondation CAB residency Brussels, Bergium; 2017 Syllabus; residency Wysing Art Centre, UK in association with Studio Voltaire, Spike Island Bristol, New Contemporaries, S1 Space, Eastside Projects; 2015 Kunsthal 3,14 Residency, Norway; 2013 Sculpture Shock Award & Royal British Society of Sculptors; 2013 Villa Lena Art Foundation Residency, Tuscany, Italy; 2012 Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award, London; 2011 Olga Roubinskaya Foundation Award; 2011 The Land Securities Prize Award, London; 2010 The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 New Sensations Prize, London; 2010 Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The Fifth Annual Young Sculptors Prize
Publications & press:
2025 FAMM Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France; 2025 Parnass Magazine; 2/2025 Cascade by Paula Watzl; 2025 The Observer, 'The death of linear time' by Naima Morelli; 2025 Dulwich Picture Gallery winter 2025 issue; 2025 Sir John Soane Museum Annual Review, winter 2025 issue; 2024 Sculpture Magazine, International Sculpture Center, Nov-Dec issue Continuous Return by Robert Preece; 2023 Taccuini di farfalle e serpenti e l'eco delle meduse di Torino, Olga Gambari for La Repubblica; 2023 Art Focus. An artist who gives a voice to things by Christianna Bonin; 2023 THE WICK Spotlight Sculptor Nika Neelova; 2022 Wallpaper magazine, Jan issue. Celine Art Project, text by Dal Choda; 2022 Canvas Magazine (print) Celine Show Room; 2022 Design Dispatch French Elegance Defines Celine's New London Flagship; 2021 Parnass magazine, Dec issue, Sculpture in Focus; 2021 Sotheby's, The Celine Art Project by Harriet Quick; 2021 Superfuture, Celine Art Project (online publication); 2021 Hyperbeast, Celine Art Project (online publication); 2021 Vogue Russia, Celine Art Project, text by Ekaterina Lantsmann; 2021 Elle Decoration, 'The Revolution of the Object'; 2021 'The Refusal of Functionality' text by Ivan Streltsov for Syg. ma; 2021 'Seepages' text written by Sophie J Williamson for Silt Brighton CCA; 2021 [] как в слове "Зверь" text by Yulia Tikhomirova for Spectate; 2021 Studio International, SILT text by Veronica J Simpson; 2021 Art Fictions Podcast 'Human Vessels', in conversation with Jillian Knipe; 2021 New Art Centre Podcast with Thalia Wood-Allington and Thomas Marks; 2021 'The Great Oolite' text by Lizzie Llyod; 2021 Brighton CCA Podcast in conversation with Sophie Williamson; 2021 Talking with Electricity, Chapel Art Centre; 2021 'Unearthed:Eco-Visionaries' by Kate Neave for Openlab.fm; 2020 Intuitive Geometries. Women making sculpture.' Yellowfields, Text by Jennifer Dudley; 2020 Yorkshire Sculpture International by Eamonn Maxwell; 2019 Review of Ever at The Tetley, After View