PAINTING
NADIYA SPILLER
 
DETAILS
Wood, texture paste, acrylic and oil colors
Diameter 60 cm
2025
 
DESCRIPTION
In Online, the human figure is entirely absorbed and yet lost. Enclosed, restrained, captured by their own display, the gaze is directed downward, away from the world. The beauty of the sunset behind them goes unnoticed. Light plays across the clouds with quiet generosity, warm and expansive, but it no longer reaches them. The pixel structures emerge with varying intensity, creating a tangible three-dimensional surface, a physically felt sign of inner overstimulation. The moment is present. Perception is not.
 
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST
Nadiya Spiller (born 28 July 1979 in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Berlin-based ophthalmologist and contemporary artist. Originally trained as a medical doctor in Donetsk and Dresden, she has worked in ophthalmology in Germany since 2007 and became board-certified in 2021. In 2025 she earned her doctoral degree from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Alongside her medical career, Nadiya has pursued art since receiving the title Artist of Ukraine in 1997. In 2021 she developed her distinctive pixel-texture painting technique, which has been exhibited in Cairo and Berlin, including the solo shows Timeless Pixels (2022) and Art as a Weapon (2024).
She speaks Ukrainian and Russian natively, is fluent in German, and has good command of English. Nadiya lives in Berlin with her husband and three sons.