Latika Nehra (b.1991, Jaipur, India) is a visual artist and sculptor, working predominantly with ceramics. Her work is concerned with the dialectics of nature; the natural and the artificial, the given and the created, and their recurrent topological interweaving which, so often hidden by normative connotations, blurs the boundaries of a false dichotomy.

In her work she uses some of the oldest hand-building-techniques, hoping to reassert the preeminence of the tangible in a seemingly hyper-virtual world. She seeks to bring to the surface the same conceptual dialectic in her own approach: the accidental in the effected and the artefact taking natural shape - the becoming natural of the artificial.

Latika lives and works in Berlin, Germany and frequently takes trips to India for craft-related projects. Academically trained in visual design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Latika is self-taught in the field of ceramics and it has been her primary medium since 2020.

Photographed by Rick Burger, 2023

Education

2017 - MA Integrated Design, Anhalt University, Dessau, Germany.

2014 - Bachelor of Design, National Institute of Design (NID), Gujarat, India.

2009 - Humanities & Fine Art, Mayo College Girls School, Rajasthan, India.

Exhibition & Group shows

2024

Pangolin Gallery - Sculpture Trails - London, UK

ID Design - Collectibles - Mumbai, India

RDV - Ceramicscapes, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany

2023

De Pury - Primary Market Auction: FIRE - Contemporary Glass & Ceramics (online)

Obey Art Space - How well you walk through the fire, Berlin, Germany

Nella Beljan Gallery - The White Room, Berlin, Germany

2022

Cultivate Art Global, Mumbai, India - Remote Life

2021

Round them oranges, Jaipur, India - After Origin

Room Capacity, Berlin - Sculptural Connections

All works are photographed by the Artist, unless mentioned otherwise.