Young Serbian Artist Adventures
            2023-25

multimedia performative campaign

2024-25

Young Serbian Artist Art Hotline
Porto (PT), Geneva (CH), Weimar (GER), Cluj-Napoca (RO)

① Hotline Talkshow, CRL - Central Eletrica, Porto
② Solo Exhibition 11m3 Projektraum Weimar
③ Group 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

2024

"Young Serbian Artist Adventures" is a series of adventures fueled and shaped by the active participation of its audience. Through different open calls, the protagonist offers various services, questioning and offering her artistic attributes.

Adventure 2022-3:
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.

Adventure 2024:
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.

Essentially, it is her – 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 role of the artist
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.

The adventure has taken place between 4th - 18th June 2024 parrallely 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 monumnetof 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-months 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)

2023 The production of the ‘’Hydra’’ was kindly funded by the Frauenfonds and Diversitätfonds Weimar.

Photos: KulturHaus, Leipzig (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art   Skopje (MKD

Decolonial Mermaid 
          2024 

video performance & performative reading

Poem created within #CleanWaters Artistic Residency
coordinated by MaiMultVerde and Matka
Sulina, Danube Delta, Romania

Text: Nadja Kracunovic
Camera: Marco Verhoogt

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.

Don’t worry, it’s out of control           2023

interdisciplinary large ensamble (concert, performance)


Concept, Music, Conduction: Nicklas Koppe
Texts, Performance: Nadja Kracunovic

Ensamble: Julia Villarroel (guitar), Tara Sarter /  Peter Ehwald (saxophone), Gervasio Tarragona (clarinet), Daniel Moreno (trombon), Felix Gerbig / Thomas Tito (base), Felix Neumann  (drums)

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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. In the summer 2024, the ensamble produced a musical film that premiered in Novemeber in Mascha Weimar. 

Reform, sweet Reform
          2024

video performance, 00:04:26
Ausländerbehörde Weimar, Germany

Kracunovic humorously intertwines the art of baking the Reform cake – a traditional delight on the Serbian table – with her homeland's journey into the European Union. Through the lens of a playful reporter persona, she draws parallels between the sweet steps of cake-making and the intricate path to EU accession, adding a gram of sarcasam to the traditional recipe.