Biography
Nikolai Nekh (1985, Slavhansk-na-Kubani) lives and works in Lisbon. His artistic practice consists in production and distribution of images. He is interested in trajectories of capitalism and its modes of representation.
Contact: nikolainekh@gmail.com
Awards
Bes Photo Revelação 2008
Solo Shows
Surender, Surender. Balcony, Lisbon, Portugal.
Three posters for the Museum of Gentrification. Mupi Gallery, Porto, Portugal.
Achilles’ Heel. MNAC, Lisbon, Portugal.
gas foraday. Balcony, Lisbon, Portugal.
Silent Spring. Syntax, Lisbon, Portugal.
Shoplifting CAN Get you Killed. A. Trindade & F. Cordeiro, Lisbon, Portugal.
Group Shows
Cabra Cega. Balcony, Lisbon, Portugal.
Magic and Rituals. Museum Villa-Rot, Burgrieden – Rot, Germany.
COSMO/POLÍTICA #1: A Sexta Parte do Mundo. Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal.
THEM OR US! Galeria Municipal do Porto, Oporto, Portugal.
New Work. Balcony, Lisbon, Portugal.
Is a Bone a Stone? Geological Museum Lisbon / Galeria do Sol, Oporto, Portugal.
Magician’s Right Hand. Futura, Prague, Czech Republic.
Nocturnal Measurements and the Invisible State of Shine. Syntax, Lisbon, Portugal.
With Criminal Energy – Art and Crime in the 21st Century. ACC Galerie, Wemar, Germany.
Os Relatos de um Fotógrafo Famoso. Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal.
ESCAPE. Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden.
Lisboa como Metáfora. Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal.
Startpoint Prize 2009. Klenová, Czech Republic.
Bes Photo Revelação 2008. Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal.
Screenings
Acoustic Geometries, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. (Half-cut)
Corpora Aliena at IKLECTIK : ‘Dreams and Shadows’, London, England. (Tidal Restlessness)
13th VIS. Vienna, Austria. (Half-cut)
Experiments In Cinema v11.T34. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. (Metaphorical Container)
Fokus 2016. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Tidal Restlessness)
32nd Kassel Dokfest. Kassel, Germany. (Metaphorical Container)
19th Jihlava IDFF. Jihlava, Czech Republic. (Tidal Restlessness)
KLEX. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Tidal Restlessness)
Arkipel. Jakarta, Indonesia. (Half-cut)
Experiments In Cinema v10.T36. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA . (Half-cut)
Fokus 2015. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Half-cut)
21th International Short Film Week. Regensburg, Germany. (Half-cut)
Indie Cork. Cork, Irland. (Half-cut)
Tenderflix. ICA, London, England. (Half-cut)
11º IndieLisboa. Lisbon, Portugal.(Half-cut)
CPH:DOX. Copenhagen, Denmark. (White Wind)
Art Residencies
Ashkal Alwan (with Calouste Gulbenkian grant)
With Criminal Energy – Art and Crime in the 21st Century. ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany.
What Happened to God? Halle14, Leipzig, Germany.
La Belle Alliance (Metropole). Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, Portugal.
Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal.
Education
Independent Study Program at Maumaus. Lisbon, Portugal.
Bachelor degree at Art and Multimedia. Fine Arts University, Lisbon, Portugal.