BIO

Nikolo Kerimov is a designer and artist whose practice interrogates popular culture through humor, aesthetic provocation, and layered visual storytelling. Humor in his work operates both in the foreground and background — sometimes immediate and playful, other times subtle and embedded in material contrasts, scale, or unexpected combinations. This layered approach allows his work to be both accessible and critically reflective.

Kerimov demonstrates a commitment to material plurality, working across ceramics, textiles, woodwork, metalwork, and experimental composites. His projects often incorporate figurative elements — human, animal, and botanical — using flowers, plants, and trees as recurring forms. These organic references function as quiet reminders of shared existence, emphasizing that humans and nature are deeply connected, and that, at a fundamental level, we share common structures, vulnerabilities, and cycles of growth.

Each project becomes an opportunity to test unfamiliar processes, challenge craft conventions, and develop new material vocabularies, where humor and material experimentation operate together as both visual language and conceptual strategy.