About
Aglaya Nogina was born in Luhansk in 1996 and lived in Kharkiv and Kyiv before moving to Düsseldorf after the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She currently lives and studies at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts.
She works across graphic and expanded media, including printmaking, photography, text, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, performance, and spatial installation. Moving between techniques and forms, she develops the material language of each work through experimentation.
Her practice explores the relationship between personal experience and collective reality through questions of memory, self-identification, intimacy, and belonging. Experiences of migration and displacement form part of this inquiry, alongside broader questions of relationships, perception, and how we experience ourselves in relation to others and the world around us.

Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2022–2024 guest student in class of Rita McBride, from 2025 full student in class of Sabrina Fritsch)
- Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
- Ukrainian Leadership Academy
- Kharkiv Art College
Publications
- Art book “Archipelago”
Solo exhibitions
- “Lost Beauty”, curated by Daria Zhuravel at KUT Gallery, Kyiv
- “Landscapes of the memories”, curated by Olena Polishchuk at Svitlo Gallery, Lviv
- “Archipelago”, Portal 11 Gallery, Kyiv
- “Archipelago”, curated by Anna Petrova, at Kunststudio 16, Berlin
Selected exhibitions
- “On a solid ground” at Reinraum gallery, Düsseldorf
- “Contents may vary” at Artmx Gallery, Cologne
- “EU-UA connecting” at Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
- “Memories of the future”, curated by Anna Petrova, at Schönhausen Palace, Berlin
- “Ukraine on the West Coast” in the USA (Claremont, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle)
- “Агу ура”, curated by Andriy Dureika, at Aura Kunstraum Gallery, Düsseldorf
- “KOLYSKA” at the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum, Berlin
- “Goldnarben” at Schönhausen Palace, Berlin
- “National code” organized by Ukrainian Cultural Community (UCC), Berlin
- “Mutual Arts” at Piletskyi Institute, Berlin
- Open Studios at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
- “Point in Time. Monologue” at Imaginart Gallery, Barcelona
- Soshenko Art Residence, Kyiv
- HELICON art residence, Izmit, Turkey
- “Golden Hour” at PEREMOGA Gallery, Kyiv