Lera Nibiru was born in 1981 in Russia. Graduated at St.Petersburg University of Cinema and TV as animation artist (2003). Lives and works in St.Petersburg and Alanya.
From 1999 Lera worked on fields of video, photography, animation, took part as musician in avant-garde music bands "Babsley", "ZGA" under the name Valeria Kildeeva. In 2006-2008 she was part of the <traitors> team one of organizers of the «Open Defense» fashion and design festival in St. Petersburg. As a photographer, she works under the name Valeria Matveeva-Nibiru.
From 2009 Lera takes nickname Nibiru and concentrates on graphic and mixmedia objects. Continuing a tradition of moscow conceptualism and leningrad avant-garde, she creates total installations, including objects, murales, delicate graphics and albums. She collaborates with Marina Gisich gallery in St. Petersburg and Iragui gallery in Moscow and holds a number of exhibitions there, actively participates in artistic life and exhibition activities.
Last years Lera concentrates on videoworks, animation and mapping. She was making video for theater, music shows and surrounding videomapping installations. As an art-director, she worked on the stage production and creating video scenery of the opera «Tosca» at the Hermitage Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2018. She created a libretto for an opera «Kromkhel's journey to the seventh heaven» by composer Nick Sudnick and created an animated film based on this opera, which was presented at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2019. Her animation «Journey to the other side of dream», witch was based on her installation nominated on Kandinsky-prize, was presented at the Russian Museum also, and the book with the same story «Journey to the Otherworld of Dreams» was published by ArtLeda in 2018. Nibiru's mediainstallation with 21 screens and one wide-screen film «Astronaut» was exhibited in Center of multimedia of Russian Museum in 2021. Nibiru was nominated on Kandinsky-prize twice (2008, 2010), on Sergey Kuryokhin Award 2022, on «Digital Opera» multimedia and scenography festival and contest twice (2020, 2021) and received a Grand prix on «Digital Opera — 2021». In 2022, 2023, 2024 Lera worked on videomapping scenery for «Sound of cosmos» show in Antalya.
Now Lera Nibiru is working on her immersive video project «Tempora» and develops her first experiments in creating virtual worlds.
From 1999 Lera worked on fields of video, photography, animation, took part as musician in avant-garde music bands "Babsley", "ZGA" under the name Valeria Kildeeva. In 2006-2008 she was part of the <traitors> team one of organizers of the «Open Defense» fashion and design festival in St. Petersburg. As a photographer, she works under the name Valeria Matveeva-Nibiru.
From 2009 Lera takes nickname Nibiru and concentrates on graphic and mixmedia objects. Continuing a tradition of moscow conceptualism and leningrad avant-garde, she creates total installations, including objects, murales, delicate graphics and albums. She collaborates with Marina Gisich gallery in St. Petersburg and Iragui gallery in Moscow and holds a number of exhibitions there, actively participates in artistic life and exhibition activities.
Last years Lera concentrates on videoworks, animation and mapping. She was making video for theater, music shows and surrounding videomapping installations. As an art-director, she worked on the stage production and creating video scenery of the opera «Tosca» at the Hermitage Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2018. She created a libretto for an opera «Kromkhel's journey to the seventh heaven» by composer Nick Sudnick and created an animated film based on this opera, which was presented at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2019. Her animation «Journey to the other side of dream», witch was based on her installation nominated on Kandinsky-prize, was presented at the Russian Museum also, and the book with the same story «Journey to the Otherworld of Dreams» was published by ArtLeda in 2018. Nibiru's mediainstallation with 21 screens and one wide-screen film «Astronaut» was exhibited in Center of multimedia of Russian Museum in 2021. Nibiru was nominated on Kandinsky-prize twice (2008, 2010), on Sergey Kuryokhin Award 2022, on «Digital Opera» multimedia and scenography festival and contest twice (2020, 2021) and received a Grand prix on «Digital Opera — 2021». In 2022, 2023, 2024 Lera worked on videomapping scenery for «Sound of cosmos» show in Antalya.
Now Lera Nibiru is working on her immersive video project «Tempora» and develops her first experiments in creating virtual worlds.
