EVA NIELSEN I SHANGHAI CULTURAL SPACE

DILUVIUM

EXHIBITION I APRIL 18 – JUNE 18 2026

The ICICLE Cultural Space in Shanghai opens its new artistic season with Diluvium, the first solo exhibition in Shanghai by Eva Nielsen, one of the most distinctive voices of the contemporary French art scene and a nominee for the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Co-curated by Marianne Derrien and Myriam Kryger, the exhibition, presented as part of the festival Croisements, brings together a selection of recent works alongside new pieces conceived specifically for this presentation. The project unfolds from exterior to interior, beginning with a mural intervention on the façade of the ICICLE building, before extending into the gallery space.

Working across painting, photography, and silkscreen, Eva Nielsen develops a hybrid practice grounded in processes of layering, fragmentation, and erosion. Her works depict unstable landscapes, interstitial zones, and fragments of infrastructure, where human figures intermittently appear only to dissolve into their surroundings. Through superimpositions of images, translucent materials, and shifting scales, the works generate a perceptual experience marked by instability and continuous transformation.

The title Diluvium evokes both geological sedimentation and the sudden violence of the flood. This tension between slow accumulation and imminent erasure lies at the core of Nielsen’s practice. Images emerge and recede, surfaces oscillate between transparency and opacity, and no single viewpoint prevails. Painting becomes a space of immersion rather than representation, an environment to be traversed.

ICICLE CULTURAL SPACE I SHANGHAI
ICCF GARDEN, 2, HENGSHAN ROAD – XUHUI DISTRICT, SHANGHAI

EVA NIELSEN

Born in 1983, Eva Nielsen lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (MA, 2009), with studies at Central Saint Martins in London, Nielsen has developed a distinctive practice at the intersection of painting, photography, and spatial construction. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in major public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and MOCA Los Angeles.

Awarded the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts in 2009 and the Art Collector Prize in 2014, Nielsen received the LVMH Métiers d’Art Prize in 2021 and was later nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2025. She is represented by The Pill (Istanbul/Paris) and Peter Kilchmann (Zurich/Paris).

Diluvium #1, 2023, oil, silkscreen and organza on canvas, 70 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

ICCF Garden

Astate, 2026, oil, acrylic and organza on canvas, 70 x 54 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

Tidal, 2026, oil, acrylic and organza on canvas, 59 x 44 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

Doline (Salicorne), 2023, oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 230 x 190 x 2,5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

Scope, 2026, oil and organza on canvas, 59 x 39 cm, Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

Lucite (They) #1, 2023, ink, acrylic and print on canvas, 190 x 140 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

Lucite (They) #2, 2023, ink, acrylic and print on canvas, 190 x 140 cm. Courtesy of the Artist, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and The Pill

SHANGHAI CULTURAL SPACE

The lClCLE Shanghai Cultural Space, located in the lCCF Garden, aims to foster encounters between artists and cultural practitioners from the East and West, in pursuit of a global community of art and culture.

2026 CULTURAL SEASON