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Nelli

Wilhelm

GERMANY

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"I look at my paintings and understand that they understand me. This is a reflection of the soul, this is a mirror, this is me.”

Nelli Wilhelm (°1982, Moscow, Russia) is an artist who mainly works with painting.

Do you know the feeling of escape, or rather the desire to run away, hide so that no one can find you? This is an unbearable feeling that is near and eats from the inside. The body can run away, but it is more difficult for the soul. She rushes out, trying to escape - will it succeed, I don't know..

By applying abstraction, Wilhelm creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

Moses' hike - biblical tradition. But was he really? Unknown.
But the desire to find a place of freedom and independence sooner or later arises in each of us and gives an impetus for new achievements.

Her paintings never show the complete structure.

“I often create work using creative game tactics.”

The lack of structure results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.

"My style is intuition. Intuitive art. I am the same person as everyone else. We all love, get angry, rejoice, disappointed, but the state of mind and perception are purely individual. Plunge into this sea of colors, emotions and flight of fantasy. In this world, everything is possible and not only in this.”

By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive.

This woman came to me in a dream. And at that moment, when I thought that I had already broken completely, I showed me the way and pointed out my destiny.

“There have been many ups and downs in my life, but I never gave up. The only thing that has always kept me afloat is my family and love for art. It's hard for me to explain my feelings in words, but I can and express them on canvas."

Is there life after death? Now I am sure that there is. But the way there is not close. The main thing is that everyone has their own.

Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.

Many little girls feel like a Cinderella in the family. And I was no exception ...

Her works don’t reference recognizable forms either.

Through what only I did not have to go through in this life. And in spite of the signs and my intuition, I constantly tried to turn from the path intended for me, until I realized that I was already cooked and I no longer had the strength to change myself.

The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.

Finding a place where you feel good can take years. I saw this place in a dream. So this picture was born, at night, under the full moon.

“My paintings are a collection of works consisting of experiences, positive and negative emotions, love, anger, passion, anger, hopelessness, but always with hope for the future."

There are so many people in a big city, everything is full of and attracts, but real people are not visible, sometimes you have to look for years ...

By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle-class values, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

I constantly meet people on my way who are very difficult to break. Whatever happens, they still go ahead and look for their place in the sun.

Nelli Wilhelm currently lives and works in Germany.

Napoleon and Josephine. Love that no one understood and were afraid to condemn...

"I look at my paintings and understand that they understand me. This is a reflection of the soul, this is a mirror, this is me.”

Nelli Wilhelm

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