Nina Kurtela (born in Zagreb) is visual artist and a dance maker who works with choreographic and site—specific practices. Through her conceptual, often immaterial and time—based art practice she works with methodologies of endurance, presence, perseverance, rituals, daily practice and matter of chance while questioning notions of monetary values, immaterial labor, identity, intimacy, belonging, home and its fictions. She creates works across a wide range of forms; namely video, installation, performance, choreography and dance. Her work is presented internationally in a variety of contexts—in museums and galleries, theater, dance and film festivals, and in public space: Kunsthaus Graz, Kunsthal Aarhus, Mucem Marseille, KW Berlin, MUMOK Vienna, MSU Zagreb, HKW Berlin, 104 Paris, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, MMOMA Moscow, Royal Albert Hall London, Ars Aevi Sarajevo, Tanz Im August Berlin, Transmediale Berlin, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Survival Kit Riga, X-border Art Biennial Sweden etc. She was granted residencies at: Fondazione Pistoletto, Amant Sienna, Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Cite internationale des arts Paris, THAV Taipei, HIAP Helsinki, GeoAIR Tbilisi, CEC ArtsLink Portland Oregon, KulturKontakt Austria Vienna. She was nominated for the Berlin Art Prize (2018) and received following awards: Japanese Media Arts New Face Award Tokyo, X-border Art Biennial Award Sweden, Henkel Art Award (Young Artist’s Prize CEE) Vienna, Essl Art Award CEE Vienna. She is founder of Zagreb based non—profit art organization Jagoda dedicated to research, discursive exchange and slow production betwixt (and between) contemporary performing and visual arts while examining gender, class and institutional power dynamics within the field.

Kurtela's residency was in collaboration with Slobodne veze.