Nadja Verena Marcin (Berlin/New York) is an award-winning visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher working across video, film, photography, and digital media. Her practice examines how bodies, images, language, and technologies encode meaning, reinterpreting canonical and pop-cultural imagery to reveal ideological, gendered, and anthropocentric underpinnings of contemporary life. Across her oeuvre—from early works like Sissi (2005) to projects such as Zero Gravity (2013) and OPHELIA (2017–2021)—Marcin’s interplay of humor, absurdity, and criticality centers the female body as both subject and mediator, exposing cultural ambiguities while foregrounding human vulnerability, agency, and transformation.

Through reenactment, irony, and reconfiguration, Marcin investigates how power, gender, and world views are embedded in visual and linguistic codes. Her work engages with archetypes and tropes—from Ophelia and Eve to cover girls and virtual assistants—turning them into performative laboratories that reveal hidden psychological mechanisms. Using theatrical sceneries, allegories, and digital interfaces—including AI-based installations like #SOPHYGRAY (2021–2025)—and staging herself as an Alter Ego, she fuses satire, poetry, and conceptual rigor to create works that navigate empathy and critique, humor and seriousness, while mirroring social myths reflecting life in fractured realities. By rewriting familiar narratives in charged tableaux, she invites audiences to rethink the paradigms we live by—of gender, power, nation, and self.

Marcin’s work has been exhibited extensively at internationally renowned institutions, including Ars Electronica (Linz), Gropius Bau (Berlin), Fridman Gallery (New York), Onassis Stegi (Athens), Garage Museum (Moscow), ZKM Museum (Karlsruhe), Himalayas Museum (Shanghai), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), ICA Philadelphia, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Berkeley Art Museum, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Dortmunder Kunstverein, National Museum La Paz, IMPAKT (Utrecht), Museum of Modern Greek Culture (Athens), Fridericianum (Kassel), Haus der Kunst (Munich), and WRO Art Center (Wroclaw).

She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes from Ars Electronica, Berlin Senate, New York State Council for the Arts, Stiftung Kunstfonds, EMAP/EMARE, Fulbright Association, DAAD, the Film- und Medienstiftung (Düsseldorf), Franklin Furnace, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and BKM, among others. Her work has been reviewed in international media, including Artnet News, Hyperallergic, VICE, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin Art Link, art-in-berlin, ARTinWORDS, Barton, Cultured Mag, Tagesspiegel, WAZ, SWR, San Francisco Chronicle, and HuffPost, and others.

Marcin has been invited to speak at institutions such as Queen Mary University of London, School of the Visual Arts (New York), Brooklyn College, Warsaw Biennial, Cabíria Festival (Rio), Centro Cultural Simón I. Patiño (Santa Cruz), and CUNY (New York). She has taught at Wellesley College, P.I. Art Center, University of Potsdam, and Burg Giebichenstein and has served as a guest critic at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Greensboro, the City College of New York, and serves regularly as critic at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design.

She is represented by Art Claims Impulse in Berlin and AKArt in San Francisco, and is also the founder and director of KUNSTRAUM, a Brooklyn-based hub for artists that features a gallery, studio program, curatorial and artist residencies.

CURICCULUM VITAE

NADJA VERENA MARCIN

Born in Würzburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and New York, USA

Research-based interdisciplinary visual artist, performance artist, filmmaker and lecturer creating immersive installations, interactive apps, performances, photography and moving images.

EDUCATION

2025PhD-Programm / Artistic Research, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria
2010MFA Visual Arts / New Genre, Columbia University, New York, USA
2009Independent Studies, Prof. John Bock, Berlin, Germany
2007Diploma Fine Arts / New Media, Appt. Meisterschülerin Prof. Daniele Buetti, Kunstakademie Münster, Münster, Germany
2004Intermediate Diploma / Fine Arts, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany

TEACHING

2023-2024Diploma Mentor, Visual Arts Diploma by Leon Meschede, Burg Giebichenstein, Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle, Germany
Guest Lecturer, The Hidden Server – Digital Technologies, Myths of Appearance, Power Relations, and Body Politics, Digitalvilla, Department of Information Systems, Processes and Systems, University of Potsdam, Potsdam
2018-2019Visiting Artist & Lecturer, Art Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
2018Adjunct Professor in Video and Film Department, Course Advanced Editing Course for Premiere CC 2015, P.I. Art Center, New York, USA
2015-2018Adjunct Professor in Video and Film Department, Course Video and Performance Art in Snippets, P.I. Art Center, New York, USA
Adjunct Professor in Video and Film Department, Course Experimental Film Production/Post-Production, P.I. Art Center, New York, USA
2009-2010Teaching Assistant in Visual Arts Department, Course Video I by Prof. Shelly Silver, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA
2008-2010Media Lab Assistant in Visual Arts Department, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA

WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES

2024Workshop #SOPHYGRAY’S Feminist Write-A-Thon, Frauenmuseum Meran, Meran, Italy 
Workshop #SOPHYGRAY’S Feminist Write-A-Thon, alpha nova & galerie futura as part of Vorspiel at transmediale & ctm festival, Berlin, Germany
2023Workshop Digital Writing Workshop: Legacy Russell’s Manifesto GLITCH FEMINISM in conversation with #SOPHYGRAY, Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, Germany
2022Workshop #SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, KUNSTRAUM LLC, New York, USA
Workshop #SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, Onassis Stegi as part of EMAP/EMARE Artist Residency, Athens, Greece
Workshop #SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Audio Bot, Ntizeza during EMAP/EMARE Artist Residency, Athens, Greece
Master Class Master Class: Nadja Verena Marcin, Festival Internacional Denis Stoklos de Solo Performance, Irati – Paraná, Brazil
2020Master Class Master Class: Nadja Verena Marcin, Cabíria Festival & Prêmio de Roteiro, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 Workshop OPHELIA PIY (Perform It Yourself), Centro Cultural Simón I. Patiño, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Master Class Master Class: Nadja Verena Marcin – How to Make a Performance, Faculty of Arts, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

VISITING ARTIST & CRITIC

2022-2025Visiting Critic, Portfolio Reviews, International Center for Photography, New York, USA
2021-2025Visiting Critic, Portfolio Reviews, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA
2021Visiting Critic, Studio Visits, GlogauAir Residency, Berlin, Germany
2019Visiting Artist, Artist Lecture & Studio Visits, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA
Visiting Artist, Artist Lecture & Studio Visits, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
2013Visiting Artist, Artist Lecture & Studio Visits, MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice, CCNY Art Department, City College, New York, USA
2011Visiting Artist, Artist Lecture & Studio Visits, MFA Performance and Interactive Media Arts, Brooklyn College, New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITION

(Selection | P = Performance, C = Catalog)

SOLO PERFORMANCES

2024FORT Biennale_01, Landesmuseum Franzensfeste, Fortezza, Italy
2018OPHELIA at New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, New York, USA
2014La Mujer, Goethe Center, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2012Reise nach Ägypten, a collaboration between Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Werkstatt Bleichhäuschen, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
King Kong Theory, MOMENTUM | Berlin as part of Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany

SOLO SCREENINGS

(Selection | P = Performance, C = Catalog)

2018Der Stinknormale Mann, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany (C)
2017YES: Nadja Verena Marcin/ Rachelle Beaudoin, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, USA (2 persons)
2012Premiere of //KIDS//, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

BIENNIALS

(P = Performance, C = Catalog)

2024FORT Biennale_01, Landesmuseum Franzensfeste, Franzensfeste, Italy (P/C)
Every Women Biennial – I Will Always Love You, La MaMa Galleria, New York, USA
2023WRO-Biennale 2023, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland (P)
2021Every Women Biennial – My Love is Your Love, Superchief Gallery NFT, London/New York, USA
201924th Biennial of Humor and Satire, House of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria (C)
Every Women Biennial, La MaMa Galeria, New York, USA
2018-2017V BIENAL CONTEXTOS, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz; Centro Pedagógico y Cultural Simón I. Patiño, Cochabamba, Bolivien (C)
Greatest Love of All – Whitney Houston Biennial, chashama at XOCO 325, New York, USA
2017The Whitney Houston Biennial – Greatest Love of All, La MaMa Galeria, New York, USA
2016Deep Inside – 5th Moscow Int. Biennale for Young Art, Trekhgornaya Manufactory, Moscow, Russia (C)
2010Qui Vive? – 2nd Moscow Int. Biennale for Young Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (C)
2009Kauno Biennal TEXTILE’09, M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania (P/C)
2008Mediations Biennale – Camouflashed / Videoperformance, National Museum Poznań, Poznań, Poland (C)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

(Selection | P = Performance, C = Catalog)

2025Loose Ground, SAP Space, B-LA-M, Mexico City, Mexico
Post Eden, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions and System Failures, Spazju Kreattiv, Malta (C)
Bruch|Stücke II (Fracture|Fragments II), Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
2024Retrato de un hombre y una mujer, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz; Museo National de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia (C)
In Touch, IMPAKT Center for Media Culture, Utrecht, Netherlands
You Know What You Know, Space 776 & KUNSTRAUM, New York, USA
PAR(I)TY WITH US, aquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Close to the Edge, Spor Klübü, Berlin, Germany
2023Who Owns the Truth? – Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (C)
Zero Tolerance, Spor Klübü, Berlin, Germany
Platform Glitch Asthetics, Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, Potsdam (C)
2022The Ulterior Narrative Cinema, CINEMA TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium (C)
eco-Logix, Kunstraum flat 1, Vienna, Austria
2021Tāctus​ – ​17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)​, ​Bath House of Winds, ​Museum of Modern Greek Culture​, ​Athens, Greece
Even when the rocks reach out to kiss you, Transpalette – Contemporary Art Center, Antre Peaux, Bourges, France (C)
UN/CUBE, online group show, Zurich, Switzerland
2020Down to Earth as part of Avtonomi Akadimia, Berliner Festspiele at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Femme Fatale, FAIR presented by Kunstraum LLC, New Art Dealers Alliance, New York, USA
Even when the rocks reach out to kiss you, Transpalette – Contemporary Art Center, Bourges, France (C)
ISCP: Benefit Auction 2020 via Artsy, International Studies and Curatorial Program, New York, USA 
2019Come On In, The Water’s Fine, Artnews at W Hotel, Miami, USA
Performance Is Alive, Satellite Art Show, New York, USA
Staring at the Sun, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, United Kingdom
Re: INSITU, The Boiler, Brooklyn, USA
2018Art in Odd Places, Westbest Gallery, New York, USA (P) 
Object Action: The “F” Word in a Post-Truth Era, state, San Francisco, USA
Test Bed, Parsons – New School, Aronson Gallery, New York, USA
2017Meaning and Difference, a collaborative project by Darren Bader, The Power Station, Dallas, USA (C)
Todos los ojos en Bolivia, Museo National de Arte, La Paz, Palacio Portales, Cochabamba, Manzana Uno and Centro Cultural Simón I. Patiño, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Space Odyssey – beyond Material Confinements, Radiator Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, Great Britain
2016Così fan tutte, ossia la scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School for
Lovers)
, Biblioteca Civica del Comune di Verona (Veneto Videoart Archive Headquarters)
Video Shop, NADA New York presented by Kunstraum LLC, New York, USA
4to Festival de Performance Cimientos, Centro Cultural Simón I. Patiño, Cochabamba, Bolivia (P/C)
2015Le fruit défendu, Galerie du Beffroi, Namur, Belgium
Call of the Wild: Pioneers, Rebels and Heroines, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA 
GlobalDraw Project, Oude Stadsgalerij in Heerlen, Netherlands
2014FEARFULAWESOME – Ecstasy, death and rebirth of a male painter, TEMP Art Space, New York, USA
DEW21 Kunstpreis, Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2013Middle Gate Geel‘13, Kunstenhuis Yellow Art, Geel, Belgium (P/C)
Coup de Ville 2013, Sint Niklaas, Belgium (C)
Dream Extension – Photographs from Germany, Gallery On, Seoul, South Korea
Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
201280WSE presents…, 80WSE Gallery – NYU Steinhardt, New York, USA
Spring Show, 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, USA 
TINA B. – The Prague Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (C)
2011German Photography Now – Emotion, Drama and Narration, Jinsun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (C)
Queering Sex, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
The days of this society are numbered, Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA
WE ARE: Live and Let Die, Nuture Art, Brooklyn, USA (C)
2010Short-term deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA (P)
As you like it II, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, USA
2009Monitoring, Fridericianum, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofestival, Kassel, Germany (C)
MONA Collection, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
I am my own private dancer, Gallery Jens Fehring, Frankfurt, Germany
Women’s Voices / Women’s Visions, St. Mark’s Church, New York, USA
2008Video Performance – Models of Self-Reflection, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany (C)
European Attitude, Shanghai Himalayas Museum (formerly Zendai MoMA), Shanghai, China
2007Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (C)
Shelf Life, Pawnshop Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (P/C)
Asian European Mediations, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover/ Museum of Modern Art, Poznan, Poland (C)
Grosse Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (C)
2006Grosse Kunstausstellung – Through the looking glass, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (P/C)
Vorfahrt, Gallery Wolfgang Seitz, Stuttgart, Germany (P/C)
Stufo, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (C)
2005Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Stadt Kunst, Bonn, Germany (C)

FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS

(Selection)

2025Simulacra, 21st Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Athens, Greece
202117th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Tāctus, Athens, Greece (online)
ADAF in collab. with Primarolia Festival, Aigio at Kipos Chartopoiias, Athens, Greece
2020NICHT MUSEUM ZEITGEMÄßER KUNST, DEI FUNK WuK, das PARASIT – Dresdner mobile EuropaInstitut für Neue Kunst, Neue Kulturarbeit, Kultur & Wissenschaft & Wirtschaft, Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany
2019Re: INSITU, The Boiler, Brooklyn, USA
2018Dream Machines, Parsons – New School, Kellen Auditorium
2017The Border Pavilion at The Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mythic Age, acinema, Milwaukee, USA
2015Woman. Equal and Different, Festarte Videoart Festival, Space On Art, Rome, Italy
2014Dirty Minds – Reading below the frame, Rooster Gallery, New York, USA
2013Aesthetica Film Festival, York, Great Britain (C)
2012AIVA Festival, Angelholm, Sweden
29. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel, Germany (C)
2011Busan International Video Festival, Media Center, Busan, South Korea
Female Cut – made in U.S.A, US Embassy/FestArt VideoArt Festival, Circolo degli Artisti, Rome, Italy
2010Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
SCREENING/SALON/CABARET/DISCO, ICA Philadelphia, USA (C)
Collective Show, Participant Inc., New York, USA
2009INDISCIPLINES, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Brooklyn is burning, IMPRENTA, Los Angeles/Santos Partyhouse, New York, USA
2008EJECT- Performance Festival, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
International Video Art Festival, Athens, Greek
FIFA – Festival pour film sur l’art, Montreal, Canada (C)
2007New Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China
European Media Art Festival, Film Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (C)
2006Jumpnights, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Fish’06, Film Festival, Rostock, Germany
2005European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (C)
Media Art Friesland, Film Festival, Academy of Pop Culture, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Vienna Shorts, Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
200415th International Videofestival, Film Festival, Bochum, Germany
Deutscher Jugendvideopreis, Bundesfestival Video, Film und Multimedia, Dresden, Germany (C)

ART FAIRS

NADA New York, CONTEXT Art Miami, VOLTA Basel, NEXT Art Fair Chicago, The Solo Project Basel

COLLECTIONS

SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Schaufler Foundation, Sindelfingen
MONA Inner Spaces Collection, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań
Videonale Archive, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Souvenirs from Earth, Media Art Platform, Paris
Digitalvilla, University of Potsdam, Potsdam
Kunststiftung Sparkasse UnnaKamen, Unna
Collection Manfred Moors, Essen
Private collections in Annecy, Athens, Berlin, Brooklyn, Chapel Hill, Dorsten, Dothan, Essen, Frankfurt, Greensboro, Köln, Lyon, Marl, New Jersey, Munich, New York, Paris, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, San Francisco, Würzburg

GRANTS | AWARDS

2025Anschubförderung, PhD-Programm / Artistic Research, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria
Atelierförderung, Atelierbüro, kulturwerk des bbk berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024Travel Grant, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin, Germany
2023European Union Prize for Citizen Science Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
NEUSTARTplus, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
Nominated for Villa Massimo Stipend, Bundesland Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022NEUSTART Kulturstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
Individual Artist’s Grant in Electronic Media & Film, New York State Council of the Arts, New York
2021NEUSTART Modul A – Digitalgutschein, BBK– Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Berlin, Germany
NEUSTART Modul C – Innovative Kunstprojekte, BBK, Berlin, Germany
NEUSTART KULTUR, VG Bild-Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Room to Bloom programme, supported by Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Athens, Germany
Künstlerstipendium, NRW-Soforthilfe 2021, Stipendienprogramm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020Künstlerstipendium, NRW-Soforthilfe 2020, Stipendienprogramm des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nominated for Prize of Contemporary Talents, Foundation Francois Schneider, France
2019Individual Artist’s Grant in Electronic Media & Film, New York State Council of the Arts,
New York, USA
2017Franklin Furnace Grant, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, USA
2018Exhibition Grant for ‘OPHELIA’, DC Open, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Kulturamt Köln, Cologne, Germany
Project Grant for ‘OPHELIA’, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
2016Franklin Furnace Grant, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, USA
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, USA
Art Fair Goers Award for Best Booth, Artspace, NADA New York, USA
2014Arbeitsstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2013Production Grant for ‚Triple F‘, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Award for ‘Art and Language’, Kunststiftung Sparkasse UnnaKamen, Unna, Germany
Stipend for Artistic Research Abroad, Ministerium für Kultur des Landes NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012Grant for ‘King Kong Theory’, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, New Jersey
2011Auslandsstipendium New York, DAAD, Bonn, Germany
Stipend for Artistic Research Abroad, Ministerium für Kultur des Landes NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010Stipend for Artistic Research Abroad, Ministerium für Kultur des Landes NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Artist Business Career Development Grant, ARTWORKinternational, Inc., Santa Fe, USA
20091st Price Women’s Voices, juried by Katherine Brinson, St. Mark’s Church, New York, USA
2008MFA Tuition Stipend, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Merit Scholarship, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA
2007Fulbright Award, Fulbright Commission, Berlin, Germany
2006DAAD Freemover Award, German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn, Germany
2004Young Media Award for ‘Losing Virginity’, Deutscher Jugendfilmpreis, Dresden, Germany

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2022EMAP/EMARE Residenz, Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
2018The Growlery – Artist Residency, San Francisco, USA
2017Seminar: Denniston Hill, Denniston Hill Residency, Glen Wild, USA
Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, USA
2014Residency Program, KIOSKO Galeria, Santa Cruz, USA
2012Prattsville Artist Residency, Prattsville, USA
International Artist Village, WARP at C-Mine, Genk, Belgium
2011Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2010ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA

ARTIST LECTURES

2025Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Demo Presentation at 25th ACM-Konferenz IVA – Intelligent Virtual Agents, Berlin, Germany
bbk berlin, Moderator of Panel Discussion Talking Back – Das Scheitern der #MeToo in der Kunst?, Berlin, Germany
2024School of the Visual Arts – MA for Curatorial Studies, The Algorithmic State: Adversarial Aesthetics, panel discussion with Rosemary Lee, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Joanna Zylinska, New York, USA
alpha nova & galerie futura for Vorspiel at transmediale & ctm festival, Artist Talk – #SOPHYGRAY, Berlin, Germany
2023Platform Glitch Aesthetics 3.0. at Digitalvilla, Artist Talk – #SOPHYGRAY – Character analysis of a feminist audio bot, moderated by Verena Voigt M.A., GFZK e.V. Potsdam, Germany
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Centre for Urban Studies, Panel Discussion on Cruising: Urban Studies, Art Practices, and Queerness, MARQ, Escuela de Arquitectura, Chile & University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022Festival Internacional Denis Stoklos de Solo Performance, Masterclass – Nadja Verena Marcin – Masterclass, Irati, Brazil
Room to Bloom: Artist Talks II, artist talk with Q&A with Ségolène Pruvot, Room to Bloom at Warzsawa Biennale, Warsaw, 2022
2021“Penny Travlou, Nadja Verena Marcin, Eleni Riga, Joulia Strauss and Marc Müller ^^ Ecofeminism”, Room to Bloom – Ecofeminist Workshop, artist talk, Avtonomi Akadimia at Room to Bloom, Athens, 2021
2020Cabíria – Festival & Prêmio de Roteiro, Masterclass – Nadja Verena Marcin – Masterclass, São Paulo, Brazil
2019“Repair, Resist, Revitalize: New Synergies in the Anthropocene”, Queer Feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art and Visual Cultures International Conference, lecture-performance, Queen Mary University of London, London, 2019
“‘Like a Hurricane’: John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1852), Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA (2017-present), and the Hysteria of Nature,” Climate Change and British Art, discussant with Kimberly Rhodes (Professor at Drew University), College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, 2019
“Re-storying the Female Body,” Contested Site: The Female Body in Contemporary Art, presenter with Susan Silas (Artist/Critic), College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, 2019
Elsewhere Residency, Visiting Artist Lecture, Greensboro, USA
2018Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno – Faculty of Arts, Masterclass – Master Class: Nadja Verena Marcin – How to Make a Performance, Santa Cruz, USA
Minnesota Street Project, Panel Discussion OPHELIA: Rebel Meme to Systems of Power & Oppression with Dena Beard, Dorka Keehn and Nadja Verena Marcin, moderated by Amy Kisch, San Francisco, USA
Motorenhalle, Videoabend Nadja Verena Marcin- Embodiment as part of Der Stinknormale Mann, moderated by Sophia and Franziska Hoffmann, Dresden, Germany
2016Pratt Institute, Franklin Furnace Archive, Artist Lecture, Franklin Furnace Grant Ceremony, New York, USA
2015Galerie Esther Donatz, Artist Talk moderated by Jürgen Dehm, Munich, Germany
2014GOETHE Center, Artist Roundtable Perspektiva Feminina, Santa Cruz, USA
2013532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Artist Talk Zero Gravity, New York, USA
2012Dortmunder Kunstverein, Artist Talk Action Manual Vol. I with MFA students from Kunstkritik & Kuratorisches Wissen of Ruhr University Bochum, Dortmund, Germany
2011Christie’s Education, Artist/ Curator Panel with Nadja Verena Marcin, Oliver Herring and Sarvia Jasso, New York
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Artist Lecture, Frankfurt, Germany
2010ISCP – International Studies and Curatorial Program, Salon, New York, Germany
2009Kaunas Biennial, Artist Talk, Hotel Reval Neris, Kaunas, Lithuania

COMMISSIONS

2024#SOPHYGRAY, live performance/ installation, Berlin Senate & FORT Biennale_01, Fortezza/Bolzano, Italy
#SOPHYGRAY, live performance/ installation, EMAP/EMARE & alpha nova & galeria futura, Berlin, Germany
2023#SOPHYGRAY, live performance/ installation, EMAP/EMARE, Onassis Stegi & WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
#SOPHYGRAY, print edition, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Konzepte e.V. & Digitalvilla, Potsdam, Germany
2022#SOPHYGRAY, mobile app, EMAP/EMARE & Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
2021#SOPHYGRAY, live performance/ installation, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany
2019OPHELIA, live performance/ installation, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
OPHELIA, live performance/ installation, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
2018OPHELIA, video installation at Nube Gallery, Centro Simón I. Patiño, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
OPHELIA, live performance/ installation, Minnesota Street Project, Goethe Institute, San Francisco, USA
2017New Cube, live performance as part Open House, Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, USA
2015La Mujer II, live performance, Centro Simón I. Patiño, Cochabamba, Bolivia
2014La Mujer, live performance, GOETHE Center, Santa Cruz, Bolvia
2013Zero Gravity, video/performance, Coup de Ville, WARP, Sint Niklaas, Belgium
Nadja By Breton II, live performance, Middle Gate Geel’13, Geel, Belgium
2012Reise nach Ägypten, video/ performance, Dortmunder Kunstverein/ Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl/ Werkstatt Bleichhäuschen, Germany
King Kong Theory 1977, live performance, Tina B.Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2010Love’s Surrogates II, live performance, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, USA
2009Are you lonesome tonight, video-performance, Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania
Marriage with a Donkey, video-performance, Kunstverein Dorsten, Germany

MONOGRAPHIES

2023P.Friese, A.Dongus, A.Huffman, Nadja Verena Marcin – #SOPHYGRAY, Essen: Kunstverein Ruhr
2019K.Battista, L.Gillick, S.Silas, K.Rhodes, U.Rüth, Nadja Verena Marcin – OPHELIA, Dresden: Sandstein
2009Greta Gesenberg, Nadja Marcin – Confessions of a Donkey, Dorsten: Dorstener Kunstverein

CATALOGS

(Selection)

2025Verena Voigt, Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions & System Failures, Potsdam: EMBLEMATIC PI$©H*, 2025. 118–129.
2024Ulrike Buck and Margareth Kaserer, eds., In the Body of Language – Im Körper der Sprache – Nel Corpo del Linguaggio, Venice: Bruno Books, 2024. 48–51, 159, 252–255.
Rocio Chuquimia, Retrato de un hombre y una mujer – Catálogo de los artistas, La Paz: Rocio Chuquimia, 2024. 21 (Digital).
2023Verena Voigt, GLITCH PHENOMENA 3.0, Potsdam: EMBLEMATIC PI*$©H, 2023. 19–26.
Julian Asbäck, Matthis Frickhoeffer, Dalia Moniat, and Sarah Steffens, State of Interim – Wartenau Art Education. Paraeducational papers, Hamburg: Kunstpädagogik / Hochschule für bildende Künste, 2023. 1-19. (Digital).
2022Alex McQuilkin, The Ulterior Narrative, Antwerp: TICK TACK, 2022. 52-54.
2021Julie Crenn, Even the rocks reach out to kiss you, Bourges: Antre Peaux, 2021.
2019Kathy Battista, New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. 77–79.
Margarita Dorovska, Marilena Nardi, Tchavdar Nikolov, Martin Rowson, Berta Sichel, Anton Staykov and Tanya Hristova, 24. Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art – Dimensions of Publicness, Sofia: Museum House of Humor and Satire, 2019. 178–179.
2017Olivier Richon, Dr Rebekka Kill, Alistair Payne and Sophia Kosmaoglou, Future Now – 100 Contemporary Artists From The Aesthetica Art Prize, New York: Aesthetica Magazine Ltd, 2017. 180–181.
2016Nadim Samman, Elvia Wilk and Andrey Shental, Deep Inside, Moscow: Pareto-Print, 32-35, 191. 2016.
2015John A. Parks, Universal Principles of Art: 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art, Beverly: Rockport Publishers, 2015. 126–127.
Yelena Gluzman and Matvei Yankelevich, Emergency Index: an annual documentation of performance practice – Vol. 4, Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Press, 2015. 110–111.
2014Peter Gregorio, VECTOR 3, New York: VECTOR, 2014. 146–152.
2013Detlef Petry, Leni Van Goidsenhoven & Arnout De Cleene, Patrick Allegaert, Bart Marius and Philippe Vandenberg, Middle Gate Geel 13, Brussels: Agora/Tempus, 2013. 184, 228.
Lieven Jonckheere, Johan Heirman, Catherine Lampo, Olivia Rutazibwa, Stef Van Bellingen, Jos Van Immerseel and Christine Veugen, Coup de Ville – Attracted by another level, Gent/Sint-Niklaas: Borgerhoff & Lamberigts/WARP/participating artists, 2013. 140–145.
20122. Ruhrbiennale, Ruhrbiennale, Duisburg: Aorta Kunst & Kulturverein, 2012. 70–73.
tina b., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague: Galerie Vernon, 2012. 138–139.
2011Sun-Jung Kim, German Photography Now – Emotion, Drama and Narration in the stylistic variety, Seoul: Jinsun Gallery, 2011.
Guillermo Creus, WE ARE:…, Brooklyn: Nuture Art, 2011.
Jens Fehring Gallery, The-Solo-Project – Solo Shows by 50 Selected Galleries, Basel: The-Solo-Project, 2011. 78–81.
2010Qui Vive?, 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow: Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
Georg Elben, Gail B. Kirkpatrick, Videoperformance – Modelle der Selbstbetrachtung, Münster, 2010. 97–99, 123–124.
USA/MFA@Bezalel, Bezalel Hosts USA MFA Graduates of 2010, Tel Aviv: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, 2010. 10–15.
2009Kauno Bienalé, TEXTILE 09, Kaunas: Kauno Dailiniku Paramos Fondas, 2009. 48–49.
2008Mediations Biennale, Poznań 2008, Poznań: Centrum Kultury Zamek, 2008. 457.
2007Courtney Shermer, Shelf Life, Los Angeles: Pawnshop Gallery, 2007. 3.
Asia – Europe Mediations, Contemporary Asian and European Art, Poznań: Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki, 2007. 150–151.
Große Kunstausstellung, Munich: Haus der Kunst München, 2007. 46, 143.
Videonale 11, Bonn: Videonale e.V. (Georg Elben)/Köln: Walter König Verlag, 2007. 7, 62–63.
2006Vorfahrt, Stuttgart: Kunstprojekt Vorfahrt (Wolfgang Seitz)/ ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, 2006. 4, 69, 137.
Große Kunstausstellung 2006 – through the looking glass, Munich: Haus der Kunst München, 2006. 95, 159.
2005Videonale 10, Bonn: Videonale e.V. (Georg Elben)/ Köln: Walter König Verlag, 2005. 62–63.

REVIEWS

(Selection)

2025Exhibition reflects on today’s technology-dependent society,” Times of Malta, Valetta, 16 Mar 2025.
2024Silvia M.C. Senette, “L’assistente virtuale feminista,” Corriere dell’Alto Adige, Bolzano, 10 Oct 2024.
Fionn Adamian, Project Space Festival Reveals Berlin’s Changing Art Landscape,” Berlin Art Link, Berlin, 21 Jun 2024.
Ariana Dongus, “Can We Create an Intersectional AI?,” Hyperallergic, New York, 15 Jan 2024.
Verena Voigt, “Nadja Verena Marcin: #SOPHYGRAY Kollektive Feministische Intelligenz (KFI) und ihre Alter Egos,” art-in-berlin, Berlin, 30 Jun 2024.
Ilyn Wong, “Intersectional Fembots: An Interview with Nadja Verena Marcin,” Berlin Art Link, Berlin, Feb 20, 2024.
2023Lena Schneider, “Kunst gewordene Verweigerung – Glitch Art,” Tagesspiegel, Potsdam, 11 Apr 2023.
2022„Feminist App #SOPHYGRAY,“ Metropolitan Luxury Magazine, Feb 2022, 96–97.
2021Martina Schürmann, “Künstliche Intelligenz lädt zum Dialog,” WAZ / NRZ, Essen, 2021.
2019Kat, „Künstlerischer Tauchgang der Ophelia – Performance im Schauwerk in Sindelfingen,“ Stuttgarter Zeitung / Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, 10 Feb 2019.
Thomas Volkmann, „Taucherbrille und Kaktus-Schwert – Nadja Verena Marcin beschäftigt sich mit Frauenbildern / Live-Performance im Schauwerk,“ Sindelfinger Zeitung / Böblinger Zeitung, Sindelfingen, 9 Feb 2019.
2018Nora Höglinger, Wie ein Schwarm Bienen um den Wassertank,“ ARTinWORDS, Wien, 2018.
Charles Desmarais, “Ophelia returns after 400 years with new message,” San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate / Murack.com / USA, Breaking News, San Francisco, 27 Mar 2018.
Anna Volpicelli, “Nadja Verena Marcin’s Ophelia goes on a World Tour,” Cultured Magazine, New York, 11 Mar 2018.
2017Sarah Cascone, “Everything You Need to Know About All 23 Art Fairs at Art Basel Miami Beach,” ArtNet, New York, 5 Dec 2017.
Monica Uszerowicz, “Your Concise Guide to Art Basel Miami 2017,” Hyperallergic, New York, 4 Dec 2017.
Priscilla Frank, “Feminist Artist’s How To Undress in Front Of Your Husband Skewers Retro Mansplaining,” Huffington Post, New York, 24 Mar 2017.
Jillian Steinhauer, “The Greatest Biennial of All,” Hyperallergic, New York, 24 Mar 2017.
Rachel Bishop and Sarah Francis, “Incredibly sexist 1930s reconstructions instruct women how to ‘UNDRESS PROPERLY’ for their husbands,” Mirror / Birmingham Mail / World News Live / Microsoft, London / Birmingham, 4 Apr 2017.
2016Andrew Nunes, “A Sexist 1960s Film Remake Rewrites Cinema,” VICE Creator’s Project, New York, 23 Sep 2016.
Arielle Bier, “Young and the Restless,” Artforum, New York, 12 Jul 2016.
Hettie Judah, “The 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art Signals Millennials’ Deepest Anxieties,” ArtNet, New York, 7 Jul 2016.
Andrew Nunes, “Finally, the Art World Gets a Bootleg Video Store,” The Creator’s Project, New York, 16 May 2016.
Brian Boucher, “11 Booths I Could Hardly Tear Myself Away From at NADA New York,” ArtNet News, New York, 6 May 2016.
2015„Das Münchner Wochenende – Wenn die Musen durchmachen,“ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 8 May 2015.
Claude Lorent, “Le fruit trop savoureux du jardin d’Eden,” La Libre Culture, Namur, 18 Mar 2015.
2014Sarah Corona, “FEARFULAWESOME – Ecstasy, Death and Rebirth of a Male Painter, TEMP Art Space,” Wallstreet International Magazine, New York, Jan 2014.
Laurence Rickels, “Before the Middle Gate,” Texte zur Kunst / Heft 92, Berlin, Dec 2014, 243.
Sarah Corona, “L’arte senza Gravità,” Wallstreet International Magazine, New York, Dec 2014.
2013Ashli Molina, “Artist Nadja Verena Marcin Travels to Florida to Recite Nietzsche in Zero Gravity,” Miami New Times, Miami, 30 Jul 2013.
2012Katy Diamond Hamer, “80WSE Presents: Annual Group Show,” Eyes-Towards-The-Dove, New York, 2 Dec 2012.
Tilman Abegg, „Die Gefahrensucherin,“ Ruhrnachrichten, Dortmund, Nov 2012.
Marion Gay, „Aktionskünstlerin Nadja Verena Marcin in Dortmund,“ WA.de, Hamm, Nov 2012.
2011Gail Victoria Braddock, “The Days of This Society Are Numbered,” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, 16 Apr 2011.
Ruth Reader, “WE ARE: Cash, Guns, and Feminism,” Bushwick BK, Brooklyn, 4 Aug 2011.
“Lost in Translation,” Art Agenda, New York, Jan 2011.
2010Keith Garth, “Zines, Zombies, and Rackets: Short-Term Deviation Opens at EFA,” The Faster Times, New York, 12 Oct 2010.
2009Katherina Schwarz, „Aktuelle Positionen in der Medienkunst,“ Arte.Fact, Kassel, 31 Dec 2009.
Patricia König-Stach, „Ausstellung – Konfrontation mit Tabus,“ WAZ, Dorsten, May 2009.
2008“Meditation on Mediations – An East West Cultural Exchange: Dialogue, Misunderstanding, Growing Pains and an Evolution of Artists Before Egos,” Artist Organized Art, Łódź, 2 Oct 2008.
„Video Performance: Mediale Authentizität – exhibitionistische Einsamkeit – ironische Intimität,“ Echo-Münster, Münster, 30 Oct.
“European Attitude,” Chinaculture.org, Beijing, Jan 2008.
2005„Süß/Sauer angemacht,“ Gütersloher Zeitung, Gütersloh, 2005.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2019Kimberly Rhodes, Like a Hurricane’: John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1852), Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA (2017/19), and the Hysteria of Nature, CCA conference, New York, 2019 (academic paper)
2014Lotte Allen, Stand-In: Self & Subjectivity as Performing Artist, Participatory Research & Social Inquiry. The New School, New York, 15 May 2014, p. 3, 12 –19, 22 (academic paper)

INTERVIEWS

(Selection)

2024Verena Voigt“Nadja Verena Marcin: #SOPHYGRAY Kollektive Feministische Intelligenz (KFI) und ihre Alter Egos”, art-in-berlin, Berlin, 30 Jun 2024.
Ilyn Wong, “Intersectional Fembots: An Interview with Nadja Verena Marcin”, Berlin Art Link, Berlin, 20 Feb 2024.
Chris Styles, “IMPETUS Interview – SOPHYGRAY, the feminist chatbot”, Impetus for Citizen Science, Navarra, 2024.
2022Eliane Eisenring, “Von Audiobots, Servicemitarbeiterinnen und Teufelskreisen,” Binary Dreams/Trivadis, Wien, 2022.
2021Frank Talks, Nadja Verena Marcin – Visual Artist and Director of Kunstraum LLC, Art Frankly, New York, 2021.
2020Scott Indrisek, “How to Do a Virtual Studio Visit with an Artist,” Artsy, New York, 30 Jun 2020.
2019Andreas Langen, “Ophelia-Performance – Nadja Verena Marcin feiert die rebellische Frau in Sindelfingen”, SWR Radio, Stuttgart, 8 Feb 2019.
Sebastian Dingler, „Zwei Frauen, zwei Welten, eine Ausstellung,“ Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, 2019.
Jana Gührer, „Kunst im Aquarium? – Die Performance Ophelia im Schauwerk Sindelfingen,“ Kunscht!, SWR Television, Stuttgart, 2 Feb 2019.
2018Nora Höglinger, „Wie ein Schwarm Bienen um den Wassertank – Über das Abtauchen, Umweltschutz und das Wesen der Performancekunst,“ Art In Words, Vienna, 17 Oct 2018.
Mascha Schlubach, „OPHELIA – Die Verletzlichkeit der Welt,“ Barton Magazine, Berlin, 3 Sep 2018.
“Women Cinemakers – Special Edition,” Cinemakers Women, Berlin, Mar 2018.
Priscilla Son, “Conversations | Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA World Tour,” New York Foundation for the Art, New York, 24 May 2018.

JURY PARTICIPATION

2019-2025Kunstraum LLC, Jury for Open Call for Curator-In-Residence, Brooklyn, USA
2021-2025Kunstraum LLC, Jury for Open Call for Spring Exhibition, Brooklyn, USA
2020-2021New York Council for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant in Electronic Media & Film, New York, USA
2016-2021Kunstraum LLC, Jury for Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Brooklyn, USA
2017Transmission Festival, Prize of the Jury, Karlsruhe/ Berlin, Germany
SOHO20 Gallery, Jury for the Annual Open Call for Solo Shows, Brooklyn, USA
2009Columbia University, Jury for Admissions Committee for MFA Program, New York, USA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022kunstraum flat1, eco-Logics, Vienna, Austria
2020FAIR | NADA presented by Kunstraum LLC, Femme Fatale, New York, USA
2017Radiator Gallery, Space Odyssey – beyond Material Confinements, Brooklyn, USA
2016Untitled Art Fair presented by Kunstraum LLC, Floodline, New York, USA
NADA New York presented by Kunstraum LLC, Video Shop, New York, USA
2015Kunstraum LLC, 7 Women 7 Sins, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014TEMP Art Space, F E A R F U L A W E S O M E – Ecstasy, death and rebirth of a male painter, New York, USA
2011Jens Fehring Gallery, Lost in translation, Frankfurt, Germany (Scr)
2009Kaunas Biennial, Vytautas Magnus University Art Gallery 101, Videoperformance – Models of Self-Reflection, Kaunas, Lithuania (Scr)

GALLERY REPRESENTATION & AGENT AFFILIATION

Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
AKArt, San Francisco, USA
Blink.de // Sökeland media art, Hamburg, Germany

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

BBK Berlin e.V.
Saloon Berlin
ArtTable New York
Fulbright Alumni Association
DAAD Alumni Association
Columbia University Alumni Association
Ivy Circle Alumni Association

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