JEDDAH: Veronika Berezina, who was born in St. Petersburg and trained as a lawyer, spent more than a decade balancing her legal career with a growing passion for contemporary art.
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“I realised contemporary art offered something my legal career could not — a space for engaging with the pressing questions of our time in creative and philosophical ways,” she told Arab News. What began as private collecting soon became a public mission.
In March 2023, she opened NIKA Project Space in Dubai, “a space where audiences, artists, and curators could meet, exchange, and challenge each other openly.”
A second location followed in Paris’s Komunuma art district in September 2024, creating what Berezina calls “a bridge between European and Global South perspectives.”
