Nele Bergmans is a sculptor and installation artist based in London. Her work explores themes of fragility and precariousness through material tension. Often beginning with a historical image or anecdote, her practice weaves poetic, open-ended narratives that trace the consequences of past actions—such as war or environmental degradation—into the present.
Material contrasts are central to Nele's language: heavy and light, crude and delicate, natural and manufactured. Her installations are carefully composed to create quiet tensions between objects, using spatial relationships to evoke emotional and structural dialogues. Glass, with its inherent fragility, is a recurring material in her work. By slumping it into soft, fluid forms and pairing it with rigid steel, she explores the interplay between vulnerability and strength, the organic and the industrial.
Born in Belgium, Nele lives and works in the UK. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts and previously studied architecture at KU Leuven. Her work has been shown in the UK, Belgium, and Pakistan, where she participated in the 2023 Jhuley Lal Residency, supported by the British Council. She is part of Critical Edge Collective, a collective of London-based artists focussing on collaboration and peer-support.
Based in Camberwell, London.
Email: nelebergmans@gmail.com,
Instagram: @nelebergmans.
2022 - 2023: MA Fine Art, Drawing
UAL Camberwell, London (UK)
2015 - 2017: MA Architecture
KU Leuven , Ghent (BE)
2012 - 2015: BA Architecture
KU Leuven , Ghent (BE)
2023 - Jhuley Lal: Crafting the Contemporary, Shikarpur (Pakistan)
2023 - Atrium Glaskunst, De Pinte (Belgium)
2018 - EU Mies Awards Young Talent -finalist
2025 - Critical Edge #5, The Handbag Factory, Vauxhall (UK)
2025 - TEST / SITE, Nele Bergmans & Te Palandjian, Bolding Gallery, London (UK)
2024 - Drieedee: Hatching from Scratch, Kunsthal, Mechelen (UK)
2024 - From the Ground Up, Lewisham Arthouse, London (UK)
2024 - Jhuley Lal: Crafting the Contemporary, Site Gallery, London (UK)
2024 - and you would have to believe it, Copeland Gallery Peckham, London (UK)
2024 - Jhuley Lal: Crafting the Contemporary, Mohatta Palace, Karachi (PK)
2024- What We Bring to the Table. Safehouse 1, London (UK)
2023 - Iterations. Lot Projects, London (UK)
2023 - Synchronize. Wilson Rd, Camberwell college of Arts, London (UK)
2023 - Degree Show. Camberwell college of Arts, London (UK)
2023 - Spectrum (Reflection). Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, London (UK)
2023 - Forces of the small. Filet project space (Hoxton), London (UK)
2022 - Interim Show. Camberwell college of Arts / C132, London (UK)
2022 - Will You Carry Me?. Lot Projects, London (UK)
2021 - Drawing IN/ Drawing OUT. hArtslane, London (UK)
2019 - Young Talent Architecture Award. Palazzo Mora, 16th International Architecture Exhibition (IT)