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Tabea Nixdorff

Tabea Nixdorff is an artist, typographer and researcher currently based in Arnhem. Her artistic practice involves (self)publishing, writing, sound and language-based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives or libraries, Nixdorff’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error.

From 2021 to 2023, her installation Feminist Design Strategies was on view at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, for which she conducted extensive research in queer and feminist Dutch archives and organized community-building gatherings in collaboration with Setareh Noorani. In 2023, Tabea founded the publication series Archival Textures.

The Art & Spatial Praxis research group continues with the Plot(ting) research group format and is pleased to announce the addition of four new members: Tabea Nixdorff, Philip Coyne, Moosje M Goosen and Harriet Morley. They gather monthly to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot.