Nelli Molfenter (Nemo) is a multi-media artist from Berlin. Currently based in Amsterdam, she studies Image and Language at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.  

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Stills from ‘Hole’
05:00 min
2025

Still from ‘Coin’ 
02:00 min
2025


‘Girl: A trick’
Graphite on Paper, 2025

‘No Titel’
Graphite on paper, 2025

I watch a lot of videos of recovering animals. It makes you wonder why these ordinary people decide to shoot, edit and upload this little heroism. The format goes as follows: the animal is found, often with subtitles that ask who would do such a thing to a pet. Sad music is put over videos of the animal in horrid conditions. Then towards the end the music switches and shows the animal in recovery, often fully transformed. Subtitles narrate the journey in full detail.


‘Interoception sketch exercise’ 
Graphite on paper, 2025 

This exercise proved itself helpful. It was done without the aid of sight, lying down. I had drawn a comprehensive figure. I thought of course sight is a difficult sense to shake.


‘I think about her all the time’
Glass, oil on canvas, found objects , 2024

In this it was my mothers face I tried to remember. I painted her over and over again. Really nothing came from it. 

‘Pelvic floor dysfunction’ 
Paper, metal, rose, 2024

‘In Tandem’
Oil on canvas, 80x100, 2024

‘My dearest held the belief that crosses had marked the spots we stood in once. Having seen such a spot today, I pointed and exclaimed; Look, there is a spot we stood in once!’
Oil on canvas , 40x42 cm, 2024

We have given ourselves to chance and so I shed a tear to chance and nothing else.
‘Coin covered chest, coin covered sex, Im not as heavy as you think’
Oil on canvas, 13x18cm, 2024

...I’m terribly homesick I say to you and you say I live right around the corner. I say that’s not what I mean and you say I would be home tomorrow dizzy now from the overflowing spit in my mouth. 

I could not tell if your eyes were open or closed, if you were awake or dozing off already. Dizzy the day after dizzy realizing that I had fallen asleep...

Part of “Homesick in spring” for Mnemotope issue 5, 2024

‘Hole’ 
Pencil on paper, 2024

Pages from the comic that will hopefully be something else by the end of the year.

I imagined crossing and being crushed by a car. Flat like a piece of gum I would become one with the pavement. No bone would break. I would simply bend and blend, stretch and flatten until I was smooth. I would be so smooth that no one would even notice me unless, of course, they looked down. Seeing my stretched-out face— The light turned green.

Text for Vera Luciano’s graduation work “Scripted Chaos”, 2024, Photos by: Benedikt Rittger

‘Bath’
Oil on canvas, 13x18cm, 2024

‘Street mirror’
Oil on canvas, 13x18, 2024 

              
‘Green Cowboy’ song for Erin Mcclain’s collection “at the base of little sheep mountain” 2024, Photo by: Team Peter Stigter

Poem “Pickpocket” for W139 together with bring your own book, 2023

I wish I had the hands - had the hands - had the hands - had the hands - of a father. 

To look to myself and to cup what is shapeless, to look to another and to leave what is shapeless. To love what leaves no loving, to look at something long enough. 

Part of the pome ”Cup the crown” performed at EnterEnter together with bring your own book, 2023

‘I imagine myself a man’
Acrylic on canvas, 13x18cm, 2023

‘Self portrait’
Oil on canvas, 13x18cm, 2023

...I want to eat the sun and the moon I want to eat the water they rest on. 
I want to eat them without a spoon,
with my fingers.
No, I don't want to have fingers. 

I want to be the sun and the moon 
I want to be the sun and the moon
and the water they rest on...

Part of  “A sweet song for you” for Rietveld Uncut at Stedelijk Museum, 2023

‘Ryan is the most beautiful’
Pencil on canvas paper, 2023

Stills from ‘Yeah, then get some water’
01:07 min, 2023