“I create ceramic and stone sculptures alongside mixed-media paintings using pastel, acrylic, and oil.
Through my work speaks a longing for the primal, not as a return, but as a reawakening within the present, as a productive force, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing ecological environments and vanishing biodiversity, increasingly technologically mediated experiences and an increased sense of unreality.
At times dreamlike, in a speculative manner growing out of this longing, my work explores hybrid ecologies bridging the natural and the artificial, as past and future converge, spirits emerge, becoming tangible, embodied, to take shape as the beginnings of a fantastical new world beyond the perceived dualities.
Form is central to my practice and is shaped through direct experience with the material. My hand-build sculptural works are largely unglazed, stone-textured, and grounded in muted, earthy tones that echo natural surfaces, while my paintings, emerging from these forms, unfold as vibrant, colorful dreamscapes. Thus, the two approaches evolve not in a contrast but as a coherent continuity through which a narrative path is opened into the surreal, to be gaged through more intuitive ways of seeing.”
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Latika Nehra-Gross (b. 1991, Jaipur, India) is a visual artist and sculptor working predominantly in ceramics. Her work explores the dialectics of nature, the natural and the artificial, the given and the created, and their recurrent topological interweaving, which often blurs the boundaries of this apparent dichotomy.
Her creative practice references the archetypal act of creation itself: life, with its emergence, persistence, and transformation. She pushes the expressive capacities of clay, envisioning sculpture as both a material meditation and a space for speculation. Constructing her works within imaginative, science-fiction-inspired frameworks, Latika reflects on technology’s evolving impact on our physiology, cognition, and sense of self, while also examining the desires and limitations that shape these environments. She seeks to reaffirm the value of the tangible, enhancing the sensory experience through form, texture, and interaction.
Latika lives and works in Berlin, frequently traveling to India to engage with traditional crafts by finding new ways to contribute to their evolving contemporary discourse. She holds a degree in Visual Design from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad, India) and a Master of Arts in Design from Anhalt University (Dessau, Germany).
EXHIBITIONS & GROUP SHOWS
2025
MOONJAR with Kat Válastur, Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
TRACE, Tappan Collective, Los Angels, USA
FORMED, Ceramic Salon, Berlin, Germany
Cast in Memory, Gallery Latitude 28, Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House
ID collectibles, Gallery Latitude 28, India Design, New Delhi, India
Blue is the Warmest Color, Onna House Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2024
Sculpture Trails, Kings Palace, Gallery Pangolin London, UK
2023
De Pury Primary Market Auction: FIRE - Contemporary Glass & Ceramics
How Well You Walk Through the Fire, Obey Art Space, Berlin, Germany
The White Room, Nella Beljan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022
Remote Life, Cultivate Art Global, Mumbai, India
2021
After Origin, Round Them Oranges, Jaipur, India
Sculptural Connections, Room Capacity, Berlin, Germany