NILIA (Born 1995, Norway, Larvik) is a first year master student and a graduate of the Bachelor program at Bergen academy of art, KMD (2021) and Rogaland school of art, KIR (2017).
NILIA has exhibited nationally and internationally, with group exhibitions in Vilnius – Galerija Akademija VA (2019), Bergen – Galleri Salhus (2020), Bergen Kjøtt (2019), Oslo – Blå (2020), Stavanger – Tou Scene (2017) and Haugesund – The Art Scene (2017).
NILIA has also had a solo exhibition in Bergen – KunstLageret (2019).
She has curated galleries and exhibitions; Gallery FI4E, KODE Art Museum (2021), KunstLageret (2019) and “SO GREAT MEETING YOU”, Bergen Kjøtt (2019).
NILIA has sold multiple art works to different private collectors located in Norway.
NILIA is a figurative artist who works across multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, textile, text, silkscreen printing, digital drawing and ceramics. She combines the different mediums, making multiple pieces working together as installations highlighting a particular conversation. The main topic NILIA work with is feminism in the forms of body, menstruation, social media and the domestic environment. Her work varies in size from embroidered panties to 2-meter-long silkscreen prints.
The aesthetics following the artist’s practice is often characterized by a feminine combination of soft pastel and clear strong color. The voice is loud and determined and the beauty of the works entices the audience into a conversation that might otherwise be difficult to have.
The artist embraces the popular culture, it’s online culture and the young women’s fuck-you-finger to traditional views and desires for a quiet, polite and disciplined woman. NILIA addresses the trends we see in the time we now live in; self-mirroring, voyeurism, sassy self-obsession and a call out culture that arose around #metoo.
EDUCATION
KMD – BERGEN ACADEMY OF ART, 2018-2023
KIR – ROGALAND ART SCHOOL 2015-2017
NORTH CEDAR HIGH SCHOOL, IOWA, 2012-2013
THOR HEYERDAL VGS, 2011-2012 & 2013-2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019: “the deep color of red”
KUNSTLAGERET, BERGEN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022: “MFA1 2022”
BERGEN KJØTT, BERGEN
2021: “SO GREAT MEETING YOU AGAIN”
VEITEN 1, BERGEN
2021: “TAKEOVER”
GALLERI FI4E, KODE ART MUSEUM, BERGEN
2020: “[KMD: TEXTILES]”
GALLERI SALHUS, NORSK TRIKOTASJEMUSEUM, BERGEN
2020: “Magasinet Altså: Kunst- og fotoutstilling”
BLÅ, OSLO
2019: “SO GREAT MEETING YOU”
BERGEN KJØTT, BERGEN
2019: “KUNSTMARKED – take over-”
CM7 ART+FOLK KUNSTMARKED, BERGEN
2019: “WHAT IF? …”
GALERIJA AKADEMIJA VA, VILNIUS
2017: “ekta som faen”
THE ART SCENE, HAUGESUND
2017: “;”
TOU SCENE, STAVANGER
2016: “The Art Scene”
THE ART SCENE, HAUGESUND
2016: KIR – first year exhibition
KUNSTSENTERET, STAVANGER
CURATED GALLERIES/EXHIBITIONS
2021: GALLERI FI4E – KMD STUDENT GALLERY
KODE ART MUSEUM, BERGEN
2019: “SO GREAT MEETING YOU”
BERGEN KJØTT, BERGEN
2019: KUNSTLAGERET – ART GALLERY
SKOSTREDET, BERGEN