Morning Writings, Midday Paintings by Nadja Abt
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).
