rikhner (Nerikh Nikita, b. 18 November 2004) lives and works in Moscow. Working across artist's books, moving image, drawing and painting, the practice examines domestic memory, bodily vulnerability and the quiet persistence of everyday unease.
Trained in comics and contemporary art at the HSE Art and Design School, rikhner is currently completing an MA in Contemporary Art while developing new moving-image and book projects from the Moscow studio.
Group exhibition «zapoishche» (2026) brought painting into dialogue with peers Sofia Ivanova and Yulia Lozhkina under curator Eric Shachnev's project on habituation and unresolved domestic space.
Materials range from linocut and collage to single-channel video, mixed media and oil on canvas. The studio remains self-directed: research, production and editing are carried out closely, with emphasis on narrative structure, archival gesture and the threshold between private experience and shared image.
Nerikh Nikita
Curriculum VitaeEducation
- HSE Art and Design School, 2025–2027, MA Contemporary Art (in progress)
- HSE Art and Design School, 2022–2025, Bachelor's degree in Comics
Group exhibitions
- "zapoishche", 2026, unfinished apartment, Kruzenshterna St 3 bld 4, Moscow. Curatorial project, HSE Art and Design School
Works
- In Case of Guests, 2026, mixed media
- No-cry, 2026, single-channel video
- The Low Pass, 2026, mixed media installation with sculptural figures
- Silence in Two Rooms, 2025, single-channel video
- Sometimes She Took a Piece of Paper and Tore It into Small Pieces, 2025, artist's book