Daria Nazarenko (*1993) is moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Sometimes hybrid dance films happen close to vitrines full of porcelain gestures and site-specific performances. Her work has been shaped by long-term engagement with Senegal since 2021, including participation in programmes at École des Sables, where she explored collaborative and non-Western approaches to performance and embodied knowledge within postcolonial contexts.

Nazarenko has developed projects in institutional and independent contexts, including Museum Folkwang (Essen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstsammlung K21 (Düsseldorf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), and international presentations in Paris and Moscow. She has also realised site-specific interventions in urban and performative settings, integrating archival and oral knowledge structures into spatial installations. She studied Design and time-based arts at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design and graduated from the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2024. In the latest interdisciplinary run of the Hospitalfield Residency (UK) 2026 she examined the fluidity of class systems in between timelines and migration.

Daria Nazarenko (*1993) is moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Sometimes hybrid dance films happen close to vitrines full of porcelain gestures and site-specific performances. Her work has been shaped by long-term engagement with Senegal since 2021, including participation in programmes at École des Sables, where she explored collaborative and non-Western approaches to performance and embodied knowledge within postcolonial contexts.

Nazarenko has developed projects in institutional and independent contexts, including Museum Folkwang (Essen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstsammlung K21 (Düsseldorf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), and international presentations in Paris and Moscow. She has also realised site-specific interventions in urban and performative settings, integrating archival and oral knowledge structures into spatial installations. She studied Design and time-based arts at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design and graduated from the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2024. In the latest interdisciplinary run of the Hospitalfield Residency (UK) 2026 she examined the fluidity of class systems in between timelines and migration.