Nelly Galias is an abstract artist and curator.
Based in Moscow. Since childhood, she has been passionate about painting. However, she came to the professional art scope after 12 years of successful career as an event organizer of business forums, summits, etc.
Education: British Higher School of Design and Arts, academic program based on the practices of leading art universities in St. Petersburg, Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Free Workshops of MMOMA.

Participation in projects
2022 - From the life of vacationers, Moscow
2021 - Art fair, A3 Gallery, Moscow
2020 – Exposition in Volki&Yolki, Moscow
2019 - In search of a beginning, Cosmoscow parallel program, Zaryadye media center, Moscow
2019 - Artline Project, Moscow
2019 - Art as part of the interior, Moscow
2018 - Influence of color, Moscow
2018 - Russia Art Week, Moscow
2018 - Dubai Art Fair
2018 - Start, Boogie gallery, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow

Curator:
2022 – Dunbar Layers, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
2022 - Flower Power, public cafe, Moscow
Artist statement
My works are made mainly in the genre of abstract art, eliminating unnecessary restrictions and focusing on the main message. Inheriting the experience of generations of abstractionists who opened the way to freedom of sensory perceptions, I continue this practice and create a new modern statement. The purity of my expression lies in the color, form, texture and expression of the transmission.
Each work is an intuitive process of dialogue between the artist and the painting, and it is always interesting how it will end, as the result reflects the influence of external and internal factors. When creating, it is important for me to convey sensual sensations through the material used, for example, the pastiness of paint or the fluidity of melted wax, the smoothness of the surface or the relief of grattage, the combination of various shapes and contrasts of colors - all this is a moment of exploration that creates a vibrating atmosphere of each work. The expressive and dynamic nature of the process, as well as the mixing of different techniques and the fragmentary application of color spots, create a simultaneous contrast, but in this way it forms a holistic image.

Nelly Galias, 2023

Press
Interview for the Art News podcast
Press release of the exhibition in the magazine ELLE
Review of the exhibition by art observer Olga Seregina in Cabinet de l'Art
Article by curator Mikhail Levin in Tatlin magazine