Lucia Nimcová born in 1977 in Humenné is a Slovak multimedia artist. She descends from the Rusyn minority based in the East Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Poland, and Slovakia. Growing up, she wasn’t allowed to speak her mother language what started a lifelong fascination with the forbidden. She’s documented this through photography, film and sound projects over the past 20 years. In 2014, she began her travel to the Ukrainian side of the Carpathians with the sound artist Sholto Dobie to create a Ruthyn folk opera by documenting khroniky, the story-songs, Nimcová had heard her parents and grandparents sing when growing up. More specifically potka (vagina songs), a raunchy subgenre containing coded language with which women could communicate secretly in the presence of men. This work yielded a film and an album, 2016’s Bajka (fable) and 2021’s DILO(work).

She lives and works in Brussels, Addis Ababa and Humenne. She studied at the Silesian university, Opava, and at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She has exhibited her works at BOZAR, Brussels; Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok; Albumarte, Rome; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; Prague Biennale; Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; Via Farini, Milan; Utah Museum of Contemporary Arts and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Lucia’s videos were shown at Festival Fotograf, Prague; Filmmuseum, Dusseldorf; Ex Elettrofonica, Milan and Now & After Festival, Moscow, Russia.

She is collaborating with David Petráš on the project www.nohami.com

www.luco.sk