NIKA Project Space has organised Hybrid Vistas, an exhibition featuring five international artists: Adel Abidin, Daniele Genadry, Ali Kaeini, Katya Muromtseva, and Melissa Rios. On display until 7 February 2026, the show re-examines landscape in contemporary art, where nature is no longer depicted as a stable, familiar scene but is reconstructed through technology, memory, perception, and hybrid forms of experience. The exhibition explores how painting, far from being a mere window onto the world, becomes an experimental interface that navigates the complexities of our mediated visual culture.
Prominent Iraqi-Finnish artist Adel Abidin works across video, installation, painting, photography, and multimedia to address themes of history, identity, politics, and memory. His practice combines critical depth with irony, confronting cultural alienation and global conflicts. His art has been featured in major international venues, and he has represented Finland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In Hybrid Vistas, Abidin displays his imagined and refracted terrains that reflect memories of landscape imbued with global experiences of decay, migration, and loss.
Lebanese-American artist Daniele Genadry‘s work, which involves painting, photography, and print, explores visual perception and the conditions of seeing. Her ethereal compositions probe how memory, movement, and light shape visual experience, requiring viewers to engage with absence, fragility, and apparition in her image-based work. She has exhibited internationally and is active in academic and artistic communities across Beirut, Paris, and New York.
Iranian artist Ali Kaeini, whose intricate canvases delve into themes of displacement and historical identity, draws on the forms and colours of Iranian architecture and cultural memory. His artworks meld geometric structures with organic forms, treating each painting as a spatial encounter: a landscape and a barrier that confronts the viewer.
Katya Muromtseva, a Russian artist with a background in philosophy and stage design, creates abstract works that disrupt conventional narrative and representation. Her project No Such Thing As Day and Night reflects a world where familiar imagery breaks down under the pressures of political upheaval, war, and the collapse of communication, producing abstract forms that evoke presence, tension, and chromatic fluctuation. She has exhibited at notable international institutions and holds awards and fellowships recognising her innovative practice.
Melissa Rios, an artist based in Mexico City who works primarily in painting and drawing, blends figuration and abstraction through surreal, dream-like compositions. Her layered art pieces navigate the spaces between the physical and metaphysical, reflecting on the interplay between imagination and lived experience. In Hybrid Vistas, her emotionally charged artworks connect disparate realms of perception and memory.
Together, the works in Hybrid Vistas invite viewers to rethink landscape not as a fixed backdrop to human activity but as a site of continuous reconstruction shaped by technological mediation, embodied perception, and the layered memories of a globalised world.
To get more information about Hybrid Vistas, please visit the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might be interested in exploring the Printed Matter group exhibition, Remnants by Kais Salman, and the Sikka Art & Design Festival 2026.
