Morning Writings, Midday Paintings by Nadja Abt
Nadja Abt, Obsession VIII, Clube Amigo: Férias Forçadas, Da ist Nadia.
/ Club Friend: Forced Vacation, There is Nadia., film still “Diva” (1981); collage, 2022
painting
department
In the lecture Morning Writings, Midday Paintings, Nadja Abt will discuss her practice
as an artist and writer. Her paintings, collages and performances explore the narrative potential of text–image combinations,
as found in diaries, storyboards, subtitled moving images, and public typography. The dramaturgical foundation of her practice
is rooted in queer-feminist, fictional writings influenced by film and literature, which are brought together in site specific
installations.
Nadja Abt (b. Vladimirovich) is an artist, writer and editor, based in Berlin
and Vienna. Abt studied Literature and Art History at Freie Universität Berlin as well as Fine Arts at Universität der Künste
Berlin and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. From 2015 till 2018 she lived and worked in São Paulo, Brazil.
From 2018 till 2020 she was the editor for Texte zur Kunst in Berlin. Her texts have been published in artforum, frieze, Texte
zur Kunst, PROVENCE, Starship Magazine, among others. She regularly writes catalogue contributions
for fellow artists and teaches at art academies such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna, FHNW Basel and University Hildesheim.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Coalmine Winterthur (solo show, 2024); Kunstverein Dortmund (solo show, 2023);
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); n.b.k., Berlin (2023); Freeport, Porto (solo show, 2021); Galeria Diferença, Lisbon (solo
show, 2021); Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn (2021); HUA International, Beijing (2021); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2021); KW-Institute
for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2021); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019); Casa Triângulo, São Paulo (2018) and Pivô,
São Paulo (2017).
