ABOUT

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Nadia Valeska is a German/New Zealand artist based in Berlin working primarily in figurative painting.

Her work often begins with photographs from private and family archives, which she reworks through processes of cropping, layering, and fragmentation. Moving between presence and dissolution, her paintings explore memory as something unstable, emotional, and continually reconstructed.

Through gestures, postures, and partially obscured figures, her work investigates states of intimacy, uncertainty, and psychological tension. More recent works incorporate heightened colour relationships that shift archival imagery away from nostalgia and towards a contemporary painterly language.