Inheriting the tradition of Moscow conceptual school, Valeria Nibiru creates total installations which include puppets and monumental wall paintings, as well as delicate works on paper or narrative albums of small format. Following the concept of “psychedelic realism” suggested by Pavel Pepperstein, works of Lera Nibiru can remind childish dreams but at the same time reproduce images from deep sensual phantasms. Curator and critic Dr. Olesya Turkina described Nibiru’s works’ themes as “.…the borderline state, the ecstasy, the transition from the terrifying to the sublime, the art emerging from the foreboding.”

In 2017 Nibiru’s project “Kromkhel’s Journey to the Seventh Heaven” became a base for an opera, written by composer Nikolay Sudnik. Lera Nibiru is author of the libretto.

Valeria Nibiru was born 1981 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, where she lives and works. She graduated from Saint-Petersburg University of
Cinema and Television as graphic artist working over the animation films. She was twice nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (2008, 2010). Valeria Nibiru had solo shows at Freud’s Dream Museum in Saint-Petersburg (2016), Iragui gallery in Moscow (2016, 2014), Marina Gisich gallery in Saint-Petersburg (2013, 2010). Her selected group exhibitions include: “Contemporary graphic works from Centre George Pompidou collection. Florence and Daniel Guerlain donation” in Pushkin museum (Moscow, 2021), ”Future is near” (New Exibition Hall of Museum of the City Sculpture. 2017, St-Petersburg), “Three Generations of Russian Postconceptual Drawing” (NUNC Contemporary, 2014, Antwerp), “Florence and Daniel Guerlain donation” (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013).
Works of Valeria Nibiru are in collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fondation Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris, Freud’s Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg, V. Smirnov & K. Sorokin contemporary art foundation, Moscow.