BIO

Nina Djekić is a Slovenian artist and choreographer based in Amsterdam. Having formal training in choreography, her practice revolves around notions of movement and embodiment as entangled with language. With ongoing research interrogating how to productively conflate the conventions of writing with those of movement notation and scoring. Spanning various mediums; performance, print, installation, video and sound, Djekić’s practice approaches language as more than just a vessel to propel choreographic thought but as what actively shapes such thought as well. Recently her research has extended to explore vocabularies with potential to breech distance between the human and botanical ontologies. Finding inspiration in situated folk knowledge, various forms of incantations and speculative fictions with focus on feminine-botanical kinship.

Her work has been presented in exhibitions as well as performance contexts and book fairs in both Europe and abroad (Frascati Theatre, Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Dolores), starch, NTU CCA, Singapore Art Book Fair, LAB111, de Appel).

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EDUCATION

2014-2016           Master of Fine Arts, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

2009-2013           Bachelor Degree, Choreography, School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS

2023

Plant is a Poem, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam (solo artist)

In the Forest We Convene, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux

Beautiful Soup – Five Inclusion Tactics for Seven Curators, de Appel, Amsterdam

2022     

Beautiful Soup – Five Inclusion Tactics for Seven Curators, online exhibition

Slippery Tongues screening at LAB111

Approximities, When site lost the plot, Amsterdam (solo artist)

Like Letters, Starch, Singapore

It starts with grass, text published on misted.cc

2021     

If Forests Talk, Singapore Art Week (X Steps Through A Forest)

2020     

Under the Skin, NTU CCA Singapore, online exhibition

Chimera Swagger, Hot House, Maastricht (solo artist)

2019     

Chimera Swagger, so-far online platform

Untitled (Shades), artist book, Browsing copy series, KHL Printing, Singapore;
Singapore Art Book Fair, Melbourne Art Book Fair, Hong Kong Art Book Fair

2018     

I turning, visible as /moonlight/ botanical, not as supple voice, soft/WALL/studs, Singapore (solo artist)

Tom, Dick and Harry, – Tom, Singapore

We are looking at this scene and incredibly slowly our view begins to slide, Peninsular, Singapore (solo artist)

2017

State of Motion, (Slow Fury, collaboration with Jeremy Sharma), Singapore

2016     

KulturKontakt Austria exhibition, Vienna

The Most of It, exhibition at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Dolores, Amsterdam (solo artist)

2015     

After Babel /Poetry will be made by all! /89plus, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2014     

Gray Magick, performance in collaboration with Clara Amaral, La Poderosa, Barcelona

2013     

AND, a series of performances in collaboration with Esther Arribas, Frascati Nes, Amsterdam; Ufer Studios, Berlin

Bouquet, performance, Frascati Nes, Amsterdam

2012     

Man-at-arms, performance, ITs Festival, Melkweg, Amsterdam; Gledališče Glej, Ljubljana; Lorgean Theatre,Bucharest

When they fight/they fight, performance, Hetveem Theatre, Amsterdam



SELECTED SCOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

2021      Workspacebrussels, Brussels

2020      Haverford College, VCAM Artist Residency with Jaqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Chris Lee

2019      Cinemovement, Philippines

2016      Kulturkontakt, Vienna

2013      Dance Web Scholarship, Vienna

2009      Scholarship from The Ministry of Culture, Slovenia for studies at SNDO and Sandberg Instiuut



CHOREOGRAPHY / DRAMATURGY / PERFORMANCE / COLLABORATIONS

2023              Choreographer,Shivers, Fundatie Museum, Zwolle

2022              Choreography advisor, Cerca, tramuta, traduci, Centrale Fies

2021              Choreography advisor, Dew Point, de Appel, Amsterdam

2020              Choreography advisor, Untitled (Entitled), VCAM, Haverford College

2019              Dramaturgy advisor, Anon, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

2018              Choreography advisor, A Parade for the Paraders, Bangkok Biennale

2017              Dramaturgy,Floats Like A Magnet, Live Works Vol.5, Centrale Fies

2015              Choreography Advisor, Haligh/A Lie, Weld Theatre, Stockholm

2011              Assistant of choreography, As Holy Sites Go,Frankfurt Lab

                    Assistant of choreography, Fountain / To The Mountain, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

2011-2018   Performer in works by Alexandra Pirici, Benoit Lachambre, Deborah Hay, Caroline Byström