Kika Nicolela

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator based in Brussels. She is interested in the space between what we understand by reality, and fiction. Having video and new technologies as main tools, she proposes experiences that question the stories we make about the world and about ourselves.

2012-2014
Master in Fine Arts. Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland.
2002
Directing Actors. University of California UCLA, Los Angeles, US.
1994-2000
Film and Video Studies. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021
Actus. The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal.
2020
Zone d'Échange. La Comédie, Reims, France.
2019
Un infini désir de nous. Maison des Artistes, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Traces. Casa do Brasil, Brussels, Belgium
2015
We Are São Paulo. Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2014
Tidelands. GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Domitilas. São Paulo City Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Tidelands. Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
Vestígios. Museum of Image and Sound, Campinas, Brazil
2012
The Film That Is Not There. Gustavo Capanema Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
Tidelands, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil
Artist Cinema: Kika Nicolela, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Brazil
2009
Distant Affinities, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
2007
Windmaker, Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
Face a Face, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021
All We Need Is Love. Online and Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland.
2020
Fiction Territoriale. Pointculture, Brussels, Belgium.
Digital Icons. Mill museum, La Louvière, Belgium.
2019
Do Not Interrupt Your Activity. La Générale Nord-Est, Paris, Fr...