Nadja Kracunovic (b. 1996) is a Serbian-born artist based in Berlin, Germany.
Her interdisciplinary art practice intersects performance, visual arts, and theater, focusing on the personal experience of survival.
Born to a single mother in the Balkans, she investigates how gender, sexuality, citizenship status, dis/ability, family relations, and social norms are embedded in the cultural realities of a woman. Revivifying stages in public spaces, Nadja either brings female characters to life or invites real protagonists into her narratives through performative investigation. Her operations employ voice, documentation, humor, and poetry drawing the materials from her diaries, folk tales, family history, and intimate encounters.
As a professional crier and advocate for self-governing communities and a dystopian nostalgist, Nadja co-founded the Crying Classroom︎︎︎ project and initiated the experimental radio station Future Nostalgia FM (2021–∞)︎︎︎. She has also been conducting Workshops︎︎︎ on voice, performance, and art pedagogy, specifically designed for women and youth.
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Education
2020-2023 MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (GER)
2015-2018 BA Media and Picture, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Belgrade (SRB)
Residencies
2024
Vishni Residency, AiR Vishni Struga (MKD)
#Clean Waters, MaiMultVerde and Asociatia Matka, Sulina – Danube Delta (RO)
Individual Mobility Grant, Goethe Institute and Culture Moves Europe, Skopje (MKD)
CRL - Central Elétrica, Culture Moves Europe Program, Porto (PT)
2022 Heritage for Communities, DAAD workshop residency, Cairo and Luxor (EGY)
2021
Freie Radikale, Floating University, Berlin (GER)
Schöne Aussicht, NEXT GENERATION residency, Stuttgart (GER)
2019 100 Jahre von NaturTheater, Heidenheim an der Brenz (GER)
2018 International Art Camp, Kosjerić (SRB)
Selected shows
2024
In case of emergency!, solo show, Šok Zadruga Koridor, Novi Sad (SRB)
Apa Ne Spune Povestea, group exhibition, Muzeul De Arta Casa Avramide, Tulcea (RO)
In the Name of Mother, Last Name of Father, solo show, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (MKD)
Young Serbian Artist Adventures: Art Hotline, solo show, 11m3 Projektraum, Weimar (GER)
Lovely Autonomy, group show, BØWIE Gallery, Geneva (CH)
We could be witches, group show, FishFactory Arts, Penryn, Cornwall (UK)
2023
Twisted Lullabies, group show, MATCA artspace, Cluj-Napoca & MAATKA Phi, Bucharest (RO)
The post-humanism and metaverse condition, group show, IFPA (International Forum for Performance Art) Darma (GR)
My name is merely plain, group show,
Biennale of Young Artists
, Paviljon Cvijete Zuzorić Belgrade (SRB)
Youth Sanctuary, group show, Kultur Haus x Joseph Konsum, Leipzig (GER)
Material Girls, performance/group show, IRRE Space, Weimar (GER)
Awakening, group show, The 14th Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (MKD)
2022
Futurology Kiosk, solo show at the kiosk.6 art gallery, Weimar (GER)
Cooking Conflicts, group performance by Cooking Conflicts Collective, Documenta 15, Kassel (GER)
Lost in Translation, performance/group show, Bauhaus Museum Weimar (GER)
SPACE, ACTIVATE!, group show, NovaArt Space, Kunsthaus Erfurt (GER)
DU KANNST DAS TRAGEN, group show, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (GER)
Ebb & Flow, group show, UK Parobrod Gallery, Belgrade (SRB)
2021
Language in Common, Youth Biennale, Footnote Center Belgrade (SRB)
Undisciplined Bodies / MIND PALACES, Villa Rosenthal, Jena (GER)
Encountering the sleeping giant, Matthäikirche, Leipzig (GER)
2020
DA!Festival,
group show,
Zagreb (CRO)
VIDEOMEDEJA 24th International Video Festival,
group show,
Novi Sad (SRB)
Relay of Youth of New Generation,
group show,
Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade (SRB)
2019
COMPLEX ON SALE, solo show, Šok Zadruga, Novi Sad (SRB)
COMPLEX ON SALE, solo show, KC GRAD, Belgrade (SRB)
fragmentARTy, AWB (Art Weekend Belgrade),
group show,
Belgrade (SRB)
Next Balkan,
group show,
Ostavinska galerija, Belgrade (SRB)
What is your stage?,
group show,
IMPULS festival, Dom b-612, Novi Sad
Workshops
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Lectures
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Moderation
2024
Youth and Democracy - engine of civil society, art workshop leader, Art Camp, Kulturkosmos Lärz (GER)
How to perform a burden?: Caraquejeres, workshop at the Sala Branca, CRL - Central Elétrica, Porto (OPO)
Violating Tears: Detecting (emotional) patterns within conditioned inclusion, Crying Classroom workshop, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (GER)
So klingt meine Mädchenstimme!, voice workshop at the Mädchenzentrum Erfrut (GER)
Mapping Human Rights with Tears, Crying Classroom, open lecture/workshop, The Iceland Academy of the Arts (ISL)
How to perform a scream?, voice workshop at Frauenzentrum TOWANDA Jena (GER)
Thoughts on Crying, Crying Classroom, guest lecturer & workshop, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna (AU)
2023
How to perform a scream?, workshop at Jospehkonsum Leipzig (GER)
Heart Head Hand, art workshop leader, Art Camp Soziale Bildung und Solidarität, Lärz (GER)
Crying Classroom, co-founder, 2-months program project manager, Der Laden Weimar (GER)
2021-23
11m3 Projektraum, intership, Weimar (GER)
kiosk.6, art gallery, project management, and curation, Weimar (GER)
2022
Crying Institute, Scientific Module and Seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, teaching assistant (GER)
Trashquestra, project concept and social media design, Kunstfest Weimar and Lebenshilfe Apolda (GER)
2018-19
BITEF Belgrade International Theatre Festival, Belgrade (SRB)
- Belgrade Remote, Rimini Protokoll (GER) performance assistant
- Mount Olympus/24h by Jan Fabre (BEL) the production assistant
Grants
2023-2019
Award ‘The best artwork’, Young Artists Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (MKD)
Grant by Diversitätfonds and Frauenfonds for ‘’How to perform a scream?’’, Weimar (GER)
Scholarship Deutschlandstipendium (GER)
State scholarship for art students of Serbia, Republic of Serbia (SRB)
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