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Born: in Kiev, Ukraine

Moved to Moscow after graduating from Kiev State Art Institute

Member of the Moscow Artist Association (previously named the Association of Artists of the Soviet Union)

Currently resides in Moscow, Russia


" I have been painting all my life. Being an artist is my identity."

Nina Kotel, November 1997


  • Personal Exhibitions
  • 1997

    - "Small battles" (Curator Milena Vinogradova) Gallery "Navicula Artis", Nicholai's Palace, St Petersburg, Russia

    - "Kolapsphera" in the exhibition "Spaces saved by us and managed by will and feelings" (Curator Nina Zaretskaya) Art Media Center Gallery, Center of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

  • 1995

    - "Pieces of the sky", Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

    - "The poisonous pollution makes the landscape nicer", Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

    - "The poisonous pollution makes the landscape nicer", TB Gallery, Moscow, Russia

  • 1994

    - "Journeys", Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

    - "Russian Delicatess", Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

  • 1993

    - "In reverse order", Gallery Velta, Moscow, Russia

    - "Safety", Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

  • 1991

    - Gallery Studio 20, Moscow, Russia

  • Group Exhibitions
  • 1997

    - "Credo" (Curator Larisa Kachouk) Russian Fund for Culture, Moscow, Russia

    - "Metamorphosis of quiet life and still life" (Curator Larisa Kachouk) Russian Fund for Culture, Moscow, Russia

    - "Second point" (Curator Vera Pogodina) Cultural Center "Phoenix", Moscow, Russia

  • 1996

    - "Galleries in the Gallery", Exhibition of Moscow's galleries in The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    - "Artoteka", Goethe German Cultural Center, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

  • 1995

    - "Apple Day", Gallery Dar, Moscow, Russia

    - "The creation of the Tower of Babel", International Festival "Kuk Art 2", TB Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia

  • 1994

    - "Die Sonderkinderstube", "Poisonned Money"Studio of Visual Anthropology in the Center of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

    - "Pictures from Russia", Gallery Moscow Palette, Moscow, Russia

    - "Das ewig Weibliche", Raissa Gallery, Erfuhrt, Germany

  • 1993

    - "Monuments: Transformation for the Future", ICA Moscow, Independent Curators Inc, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

    - "Monumental Propaganda", ICA Moscow, Independent Curators Inc, Financial World Trade Center , New York City, USA

    - "National Tradition and Post Modernism", The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

  • 1992

    - "In the middle of the peace", Tomsk Art Museum, Tomsk, Russia

    - "Do you know these names", Raissa Gallery, Erfuhrt, Frankfuhrt am Main, Germany

  • 1991

    - "Modern Artists to Malevich", Malevich Center, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

  • 1990

    - "Pyramid", Association of Moscow Palette, Melbourn, Australia

  • 1989

    - "Graphics", Moscow's Cultural Center, House of Art, Moscow, Russia

  • From 1975 to 1988:

    - Various group exhibitions in Moscow and Kiev


  • Selection of paintings from Nina Kotel


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  • Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation

  • Center of Modern Art in Moscow

  • Collection of the Moscow Palette Association

  • Collection of the Grand Duc of Luxembourg

  • Collection of the Art Media Center TV Gallery

  • "Virtual Guru" Ilia Falkovsky, Independent Newspaper, March 28, 1997

  • "Stopped Subjectivity as a Position of Nina Kotel" Elena Petrovskaya, Today, # 22, 1995

  • "Unnamed Things of Nina Kotel" Oleg Aronson, Today, # 246, 1994

  • "Axes and butterflies of Nina Kotel" Oleg Aronson, Commercant-Daily, # 61, 1993