Berlin Fellowship 2024 — Visual Arts
Vita
Nina Emge is a Zurich-based artist who reflects on the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence, and listening practices. Emge’s work centres on issues such as decentralisation, shared working methods, and redistribution. This is evident in her installations and drawings, which reflect her research and archival work, as well as in the production processes in her artworks. Emge is an active member of the Transnational Sound Initiative. Emge’s works have been exhibited at institutions including the Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunsthalle Bern, Istituto Svizzero Rome, Istituto Svizzero Milano, Frac Bretagne + Centre culturel suisse de Paris, Uferhalle Berlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Helmhaus Zürich, Haus Konstruktiv Zürich, and other national and international institutions.
Residency
During my residency, I plan to work on a new series of works, which will be rethought and developed based on the piece “Why do I feel vibration around me? or prolongation of a sound; Resonance” (2024). My focus will be on material research. In the process, I also want to explore how the memory capacity of the material can be woven into a narrative that reflects aspects of decentralisation, questions of redistribution, and shared working methods. I look forward to engaging with this work in Berlin through exchanges with others.