No hysteria, no theatrics, just communion and a kind of universality, Nina Tomàs style.
Each of Nina’s compositions is built up in layers or juxtapositions. Like the thread weaving a story that is both true and imaginary, the elements (characters, landscapes, objects, places) that are added one to the other are sometimes part of memory, a personal recollection, a journey, another culture, sometimes a dream or that intermediate state between wakefulness and sleep.
There are layers of figurations – always in bright colours – and as many layers of readings. But the whole is a story about a utopia, about “living together in the same space”. Nina has already conceived each painting as a habitat in which to bring events and people to life. And, in the gallery space, each painting clings to the other like the carriages of a mental train, like fragments to be reassembled from a shared experience “facing the world”.
It’s a whirlwind universe, fragile and strong at the same time, as engaging as it is questioning, and as meditative. And it’s a novel practice, not easy to “distinguish what was initially painted from what was added later, the printed motif from the artist’s gesture”, not to mention that this gesture also involves embroidering on fabric, so that the painting is exposed upside down, like a hiatus or a breath in the compilation/confusion of moments and ideas.
– Marie-Anne Lorgé, Fête des sens, 2023
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Collection du Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg (LU)
Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg (LU)
Collection de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU)
Galila Barzilaï Foundation (BE)
Fondation du Carrefour des Arts, Bruxelles (BE)
Fond Communal d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (FR)
Collection du Crédit Agricole, Picardie (FR)
Collection Paul Ricard, Île des Embiez (FR)
Candy Floss Planet, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
End-of-residency exhibition, RAVI, Liège (BE)
Hibernation, Maison des Arts Actuels des Chartreux (MAAC), Brussels (BE)
End-of-residency exhibition, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
Underwater Love, Fondation privée du Carrefour des Arts, Brussels (BE)
Logiques du flou, Nosbaum Reding gallery projects, Luxembourg (LU)
Flux productif, Fondation privée du Carrefour des Arts, Brussels (BE)
Sens uniques, Art Est Ouest gallery, Marseille (FR)
Hosting, La Centrale, Brussels (BE)
Wrinkles, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière (BE)
Prix Médiatine, cur. by France Deblaere, La Médiatine, Brussels (BE)
Prix Jeunes Artistes du Parlement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, cur. by Michael Dans, Le CNN, Namur (BE)
11 Years of Residencies, Carrefour des Arts, cur. by Laura Neve, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)
Freigeister (Esprits libres). Fragments d’une scène artistique au Luxembourg et au-delà, cur. by Clément Minighetti, Marie-Noël Farcy, Christophe Gallois and Sarah Beaumont, MUDAM, Luxembourg (LU)
Luxembourg Art Week, Nosbaum Reding gallery projects, Luxembourg (LU)
Tisser les nuages, Art au Centre, cur. by Saryna Nyssen, Liège (BE)
LEAP (Luxembourg Encouragement for Artists Prize), Rotondes, Luxembourg (LU)
Artagon Live, Villa Radet, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Abattre les atouts, LaVallée, Brussels (BE)
CeCil’s Box, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (LU)
Art2Cure, Galerie L’Indépendance, BIL, Luxembourg (LU)
#678, cur. by Point Contemporain, Villa Belleville, Paris (FR)
À nous l’Amour, Art Est Ouest gallery, Marseille (FR)
Art-O-Rama, Prix ESADMM, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
Salon du CAL, Tramsschapp, Luxembourg (LU)
Jet Lag – Out of sync, cur. by Anouk Wies, Rotondes, Luxembourg (LU)
Rêvez, cur. by Eric Mézil, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon (FR)
ARTAGON.II, cur. by Mouna Mekouar, Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
Figures du double – métamorphoses, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence (FR)
Traits d’Union II, Bartoli gallery, Marseille(FR)
Province du Hainaut and Ianchelevici Museum Prize, La Médiatine, Brussels (BE)
Révélation Prize, CAL Salon, Luxembourg (LU)
ESADMM Prize, Art-O-Rama, Marseille (FR)
Jeune Artiste Prize, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Strassen (LU)
RAVI, Liège (BE)
Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
MAAC, Maison des Arts Actuels des Chartreux, Brussels (BE)
ISELP, Brussels (BE)
Libitum, Ad. Lib, research residency, vaugines (FR)
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Fondation privée du Carrefour des Arts, Brussels (BE)
Anderson Center Residency Program, Red WIng, Minnesota (US)
