Kika Nicolela

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator, living between Brussels and São Paulo. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Nicolela has also completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. The artist was nominated for the international award EXTRACT – Young Art Prize in 2014, and she was the recipient of several prominent Brazilian grants and awards. She has participated of over 100 solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including the Kunst Film Biennale (Germany), Bienal of the Moving Image (Argentina), Bienal do Mercosul (Brazil), Ventosul Bienal de Curitiba (Brazil) and Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales (Chile). Her videos have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries. She was in residence at the Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea), Objectifs (Singapore), Route Fabrik (Switzerland) and LIFT (Canada), among others. Her works are placed in private and public collections in Brazil and Europe. Her videos are distributed by Vtape, Heure Exquise and GIV.

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Exhibitions

Past

Projects

I don’t remember much about her / redux

by Kika Nicolela

‘I don’t remember much about her.’ is a piece I developed over 5 months at a residency at the Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation (Brussels). I...
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2022

BRAZIL

by Kika Nicolela

This piece was developed for the Refraction DAO exhibition during Art Basel Miami 2022.
In 2009, I made a video piece using anonymous replies to a qu...
Video - NFT
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39 seconds
2022

Glimpses

by Kika Nicolela

Giff - NFT
Unique
2022

Tea for two

by Kika Nicolela

An octopus dream in motion. Video and music created by Thomas Israel & Kika Nicolela in collaboration with multiple AI tools.
Video generated using artificial intelligence - NFT
Unique
2023