Nadja Kracunovic (b. Nađa Kračunović, 1996, Serbia) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Working across performance, visual media, and theatre forms, she explores the female* body as a space of negotiation — moving through systems of care, control, and displacement. Reviving public spaces, she brings fictional characters to life or invites real protagonists into her narratives. Her practice employs spoken word, applied text, documentation, humor, and poetry, drawing from diaries, folk tales, family histories, and intimate encounters.

She lives with a relapsing, neurological rollercoaster of multiple sclerosis, adores purple, and carries a whole forest in her mouth when pronouncing the Serbian letter “š.”

Her international exhibition and performance practice includes the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, documenta 15 in Kassel, and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. She has participated in numerous residencies, including CRL – Central Elétrica (Porto, Portugal), DAAD Heritage for Communities (Luxor, Egypt), and Freie Radikale at Floating University (Berlin, Germany). She is a recipient of multiple art grants and mobility programs.

In her pedagogical and mentoring practice, she works with voice, performance, and experimental artistic strategies. She runs the long-term workshop How to Perform a Scream?︎︎︎, turning the voice into a tool of resistance, release, and collective imagination. Nadja co-founded the mobile multimedia institute Crying Classroom and performs with the interdisciplinary ensemble Don’t Worry, It’s Out of Control︎︎︎.

Nadja is the creator of Sick Girl* Strategies︎︎︎.

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 | Fellowships | Summer Schools

2026 Biennial of Care, Klub Solitaer e.V., Chemnitz (DE)

2025 October School - Moving Beyond Collapse: Reimagining Institutions, MSU Zagreb and ISSA (Island School of Social Autonomy), Vis, Komiža (CRO)

2024
#Clean Waters Residency, MaiMultVerde and Asociatia Matka, Sulina – Danube Delta (RO)
Individual Mobility Grant, Goethe-Institut and Culture Moves Europe, Skopje (MKD)
CRL - Central Elétrica, Residency by Culture Moves Europe Program, Porto (PT)

2022 Heritage for Communities, DAAD workshop, 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)


Performances

2025
Interrupted Monologue, KIOSK FOR A MAGIC FUTURE: Reunion Dinner, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (DE)
Sirena, protagon, Internationales Frauen*Theater-Festival, Frankfurt (GER)
Don’t worry, it’s out of control, performance, Arnstadt Prinzenhof and Jena Volksbad (GER)
Don’t worry, it’s out of control, performance, naTo Leipzig (GER)
INACT Festival of Mutant Art, performance, Salle des colonnes, Strasbourg (FR)

2023
Don’t worry, it’s out of control, performance, CKeller Weimar (GER)
Material Girls, performance/group show, IRRE Space, Weimar (GER)
The post-humanism and metaverse condition, group show with performance, IFPA (International Forum for Performance Art), Drama (GR)

2022
Cooking Conflicts, group performance by Cooking Conflicts Collective, Documenta 15, Kassel (GER)
Lost in Translation, performance, Bauhaus Museum Weimar (GER)


Exhibitions

2026
Rastetisch (Biennial of Care), Klub Solitär, Chemnitz (DE)
correct me if I’m foreign, ART PROJECT REVOLUTION,  Berlin Art Institute, Berlin (DE)
Apa Ne Spune Povesta, Complexul Muzeal De Ştiinţele Naturii, Galaţi (RO)

2025
Jednoj ženi je gorela glava 12 dana, solo show, Vagon Gallery, Banja Luka (BiH)
After the Flood, group exhibition within FLUTEN Weimar, E-werk, Weimar (GER)
Sirena, IPFA (International Forum of Performing Arts), Viewing Room, Drama (GR)
Apa Ne Spune Povesta, Galerii De Artă, Brăila (RO)
ÜBER KLANG, group show, Brotfabrik, Berlin (GER)
Untitled, group show, KulturHaus, Palais Festetics, Vienna (AU)
Whatever is new about this exhibition is not yet visible, group show, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

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)
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)
Awakening, group show, The 14th Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (MKD)

2022
Futurology Kiosk, solo show, kiosk.6 art gallery, 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
Encountering the sleeping giant, performance, Matthäikirche, Leipzig (GER)
Language in Common, Youth Biennale, Footnote Center, Belgrade (SRB)
Undisciplined Bodies / MIND PALACES, group show, Villa Rosenthal, Jena (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 (SRB)


Workshops | Lectures | Moderation

2026
Remembrance in Europe,  art workshop leader, Art Camp Lärz, Kulturkosmos Lärz (GER)
How to perform a scream? (Roar this to your lover), workshop at the Bärenzwinger, Berlin (GER)
Mutant, A Migrant, and A Sick Girl, performative storytelling workshops, Casino for Social Medicine, Berlin (GER)

2025
What is Class about?, art workshop leader, Art Camp Lärz, Kulturkosmos Lärz (GER)
Wie meine Stimme sich versteckte und wiederkam, Workshops, KUNST!Jetzt, Fröbel e.V., Berlin (GER)
How to perform a scream?, workshop at the M.A Kunstpädagogik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (GER)
A letter to an apocalyptic lover, workshop, KulturHaus, Palais Festetics, Vienna (AU)

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 Josephs Konsum Leipzig (GER)
Heart Head Hand, art workshop leader, Art Camp Soziale Bildung und Solidarität, Lärz (GER)
Crying Classroom, co-founder, 2-month program project manager, Der Laden Weimar (GER)

2021-23
11m3 Projektraum, internship, 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

2025-2026
Scholarship Thüringer Graduiertenförderung Kunststipendium for ‘’(Un)fit Society & Chronic Superpositions’’ (GER)

2024
- Award ‘The best artwork’, Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (MKD)
- Grant Culture Moves Europe Mobility, Goethe-Institut Brussels, implemented in North Macedonia (MKD)

2023
Grant by Diversitätfonds and Frauenfonds for ‘’How to perform a scream?’’, Weimar (GER)

2022-23
- Grant by Kreativfonds for ‘’Future Nostalgia’’, Weimar (GER)
- Scholarship Deutschlandstipendium (GER)

2016-18
State scholarship for art students, Republic of Serbia (SRB)