Nina Silverberg (b.1994) is an Italian painter living and working in London. She received her BA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2018.
'The Library', Silverberg's London debut solo exhibition opened in March 2024. Previous solo presentations include 'Once I Dreamt of a Nest' at Creekside Hub (London, 2020) and 'BLIND' at Studio Barnum Contemporary (Noto, 2019). Recent group exhibitions include 'Nina Silverberg and Plum Cloutman' at 1969 Gallery (New York), 'Holders' at Coulisse Gallery (Stockholm, 2024), participation at Untitled Miami 1969 Gallery (2023), 'A Closed Door, a Den' at Arusha Gallery (Bruton, 2023), 'All Small Things' at Soup (London, 2023), 'Portal' at Arusha Gallery (London, 2023), 'Illuminations' at Steve Turner (Los Angeles, 2023), 'Steams of Consciousness' at Phillips w. Particle Collection (Miami, 2022), 'Noontime Ghosts' at Eve Liebe (London, 2022), 'New Romantics' at Phillips w. The Artist Room (Seoul, 2022) and 'Cool, Fresh, Sweet Waters' at The Tub (London, 2022).
Silverberg's paintings are marked by their quiet energy, muted palette and often small scale. Characterised by both a solitary stillness and an implied intimacy, she examines ideas of isolation, sickness and the relationship between interior and exterior worlds. Following a prolonged period of ilness in her early adulthood, the artist's subjects frequently include timeless signifiers of human care and comfort. Sick beds serve as analogous self-portraits; sillhouetted structures act as architectural artchetypes of the Mediterranean home; gloves personify a fashion forward approach to protection or precaution; and, most recently, books embody an escape to that inviting inner realm. At once melancholic and reassuring, they suggest an inherent frailty and offer empowerment as coping mechanisms against our contemporary condition.