ARTIST
Nina Berfelde

Nina Berfelde

(luft)wurzeln / (air)roots

finalist - (Berlin, Germany)
Staff: Dr. Alexandra Appel, Nicole Pearson, Ghasal Falaki, Dr. Anna Stoffregen 
Advisor: Luise Leon Elbern

 

Nina Berfelde, born in East Germany, is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural anthropologist living and working in Berlin. She studied cultural anthropology and is currently persuing a Master's degree in Art in Context. Her artistic career includes documentary photography and cinema from 2004 to 2017. Since 2018 she has dedicated herself to walking as an artistic practice, in combination with photography and video art. Her projects include situationist walkshops and intersectional feminist interventions. Her most recent cinema documentary QUEERCORE – HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION has won international awards, including the prize for best documentary at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. In her work, she deals with intersectional feminist perspectives, inclusion instead of integration, situationism, investigations of territorial violence and counter-concepts to patriarchy and capitalism. She strives to create space and spaces for exchange, encounter and understanding.

 

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