Nazilya Nagimova: Follow the Snail

The first solo exhibition in the Emirates for the Münster-based Tatar artist Nazilya Nagimova brings together new works created specifically for her solo project at NIKA Project Space, plus selections from earlier projects.

Nagimova explores memory, migration, and the search for belonging, and these works share a thematic core: the artist’s ongoing experiments with felt (a traditional material of her ancestors), her engagement with the long histories of Tatar mobility and settlement, and the idea of home as a mobile, vulnerable, and constantly transforming structure. Says the gallery: “The exhibition unfolds as a reflection on the fragility of shelter and on how personal and collective memory shape our intimate relationship to place and community”.

To 4 April.

Above: Nazilya Nagimova, Jort, White (2025)