Young Serbian Artist Adventures
2023-25
multimedia performative campaign
Young Serbian Artist Adventures is a series of adventures fueled and shaped by the active participation of its audience. Through various open calls, the protagonist offers different services, showcasing and highlighting her artistic attributes.
Essentially, it is she, the young Serbian artist, who offers services, facilitates conversations, and utilizes all her artistic attributes: tone of voice, strong Slavic accent, communication skills, ethnical background, personal history, and expertise in contemporary topics. This action humorously questions the artist's role as a versatile communicator. By offering a range of services and fostering dialogue, Kracunovic playfully challenges the conventional notion of the artist as solely a creator of art.
2024
Adventure 2024-25:
Young Serbian Artist Art Hotline
Porto (PT), Geneva (CH), Weimar (GER), Cluj-Napoca (RO)
①Hotline Talkshow, CRL - Central Eletrica, Porto
②Solo Exhibition 11m3 Projektraum Weimar
③Group Exhibition ‘’Lovely Autonomy’’, La Collective & Bowie Gallery, Geneva
④ Group show‘’Whatever is new about this show, is not yet visible, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
This second multimedia adventure serves as a hotline, allowing the public to engage in conversations with a young Serbian artist. Through these exchanges, callers can gain insights, share thoughts, ask questions, or simply share a joke or concern – anything they feel compelled to discuss or dare to ask.
2023
Adventure 2022-3: Young Serbian Artist Looking for an Art Job
Belgrade (SRB), Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar (GER)
In order to fulfill one of the requirements for obtaining a German visa, a young Serbian artist sets out on an adventure to find a job in the art field. The poster with the open call was pasted in several cities in Germany, as well as in her home city, Belgrade. Within the project, until April 2023, Kracunovic has been offered 18 different artistic jobs: from which she was hired 2 times in Serbia, and 5 times in Germany.
The adventure has taken place between 4th - 18th June 2024 parallel in three different locations (Porto, Geneva, Weimar)
Hydra
2023
video performance (color, stereo, 00:17:30)
Kirschplantage, Weimar (DE)
Performers: Denise Lee, Lucia Gonzalez, Rand Ibrahim, Laura Leal, Leila Keivan, Jana Imo
Camera: Yavor Krasimirov Minchev, FangSheng Chou
Sound: Yavor Krasimirov Minchev, Ilija Đorđević
‘’Hydra’’ is a performative investigation, with the mission to master the individual female voices in the public space and dig into their unspoken, using the voice as a discipline in the discourse of personal agency and authenticity. The digging aims to dramatize the individual voices into a collective one – a matriarchal monument of voices in resistance to the personal and political landscapes - a contemporary tale.
As a many-voiced Hydra creature, the piece is a consequence of the two-month-long process and voice workshops led by the artist, dealing with the autobiographies of the six female agents, their voices, tongues, and wombs.
2023 ‘’Hydra’’ was awarded as a “Most Successful Artist and Work”︎︎︎ at the 14th International Biennale of Young Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (MKD) / Supported by the Frauenfonds and Diversitätfonds Weimar.
Photos: KulturHaus, Leipzig (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (MKD
Screenshots from the video performance
Placenta
2022
writing on a photograph, A5 prints
Photo: Leila Keivan
In conversation with the artist’s mother
Sirena
2024
live performance approx. 30min
live performance approx. 30min
video performance 6min
created within #CleanWaters Artistic Residency in
Sulina, Danube Delta, Romania
My hands are full of salt, swim with my sisters.
The character of the Decolonial Mermaid, born in response to extreme injustice, brutality, and human-inflicted violence, embodies a resistant narrative through water. She performs a decolonizing poem on the coast of Sulina, addressing two seas. The mermaid drowns in the Black Sea and reappears in the Mediterranean, swimming through the Bosphorus, while collecting artifacts from the wars witnessed by these waters. Although the sea is her natural habitat, she fears entering it. By repeatedly stating, "My white body entering the Black Sea," the mermaid confronts personal, racial, cultural, and ecological oppression.
Screenshots from the video performance (Sulina, Romania, 2024) Camera: Marco Verhoogt
Performance, INACT Festival of Mutant Arts, Sale des Colonnes (Strasbourg, April 2025)
Performance, Kultürchen & freiebühnejena (StadtLab Jena, December 2024
Video piece shown at the group exhibition at the Museum Municipal Calarasi (RO)
Don’t worry, it’s out of control
2023
interdisciplinary large ensemble
Offical website︎︎︎
Concept, Music, Conduction: Nicklas Koppe
Texts, Performance: Nadja Kracunovic
Ensemble: Julia Villarroel (guitar), Tara Sarter / Peter Ehwald (saxophone), Gervasio Tarragona (clarinet), Daniel Moreno (trombone), Felix Gerbig / Thomas Tito (bass), Felix Neumann (drums)
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Concert at the CKeller Weimar, October 2023, @Max Schink
Don’t worry, it’s out of control is an interdisciplinary ensemble that blends contemporary music, text, performance, and projections, founded by musician Nicklas Koppe (Germany) in collaboration with artist Nađa Kračunović (Serbia).
Through five dream-like sequences, the performance interprets scientific climate crisis scenarios as envisioned from the year 2100 (SSPs), creating a shift in perspective that aims to uncover ecological narratives for our society. This perspective encourages a fresh critique of present-day issues with newfound clarity.
The project is performed in different settings such as concert halls, theaters, and galleries, being tailored to the particular space.
Music video, Notenbank, August 2024, @Leila Keivan
Short film teaser︎︎︎
Scenario 1: Sustainability (full video)︎︎︎
Live in naTo Leipzig︎︎︎
Concert at the naTo Leipzig,January 2025 (GER) @Vitor Mattos