photo by Gregor Gusky 2023
studio means for me personally a microscopic and at the same time macroscopic approach to the world flow. Today being an artist requires a complicated and combinatory relationship between art and life — between public and private realms — between collective and individual activity — between solitude and solidarity. KARTELL has to be explored and experienced at once. Even if I like to use the streets/ the airports/ group dynamics as a studio — here is the place where it is easier to experiment than in the academic university contexts or bigger institutions in general. Here it is allowed to create any kind of knowledge.
photo by Gregor Gusky 2023
studio means for me personally a microscopic and at the same time macroscopic approach to the world flow. Today being an artist requires a complicated and combinatory relationship between art and life — between public and private realms — between collective and individual activity — between solitude and solidarity. KARTELL has to be explored and experienced at once. Even if I like to use the streets/ the airports/ group dynamics as a studio — here is the place where it is easier to experiment than in the academic university contexts or bigger institutions in general. Here it is allowed to create any kind of knowledge.
BIO
Daria Nazarenko (she/her) is a cinemato-choreographer
moving between film stills and subcultures.
Her works encompass multimedia video installations,
hybrid dance films,
and site-specific live performances.
By staging bodies and cameras,
she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life.
Her artistic practice was significantly influenced
by her travels to Senegal from 2021 to the present,
where she developed her non-western collective
approach through programs at "École des Sables"
integrating diverse cultural perspectives.
Her artistic practice includes curating
urban spaces into museum-like environments,
with happenings at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf,
as well as in Moscow the not-found-Gallery
and in Paris at the Beaux-Arts-Ateliers.
Her works have been showcased in institutions
such as PACT Zollverein,
K21 Düsseldorf, Sotheby's Cologne
and at tanzhaus nrw.
Through her interdisciplinary approach,
she enriches the contemporary art scene
and fosters dialogue about identity,
honoring her own migrational narrative.