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Nada Gambier

Nada Gambier

1980 ◊ FI, BE ◊ http://​www.nadagambier.be

Nada Gambier (1980. Finland) roams around in what she calls a crash-disciplinary world where theater, dance, performance, video, writing, curatorial approaches and languages and social concerns merge and collide. Her work often flirts with the borders between theatricality and abstraction and she is drawn to things that she doesn’t understand or cannot grasp. The non-spectacular and the absurd belong to her most known trademarks as an artist.

Since 2014 she has been focusing on long-term projects in which the separation between research, creation process and public event can be confused and/or abandoned. In 2020 she began monthly collective research sessions in Brussels, further establishing herself as an advocate for experimentation and research within the (performing) arts. Nada also regularly collaborates on other artists’ projects as a performer and artistic advisor. She has worked a.o. with Kate MacIntosh, Edit Kaldor, Forced Entertainment, Simone Aughterlony, Jorge Léon, Maria Jerez, Diederik Peeters, Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Phil Hayes. Nada is currently doing the postgraduate course in a.pass in Brussels. 

Projects

Once Upon a Time in Petaouchnok (2008)

Once upon a time in Petaouchnok is about ordinary people and lives. 8 individuals coming from different backgrounds and professions share their fears, desires and hopes.
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Act of Living – Catalogue of failure (2006)

In Act of Living- Catalogue of Failure Nada Gambier, Ugo Dehaes and Kwint Manshoven embark on a journey trying hard to connect with each other, only to realize that in life we remain utterly alone.
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Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance (2003)

Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance is an investigation on the nature of presence on stage, the status of reality in this context and the dynamics of the construct; performer-audience- and the stage that keeps them apart.
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Residencies

True Fiction (2023)

In True Fiction Nada Gambier works around artistic and social enclosures and on how (institutional) borders and identities can be negotiated through practice. In the process, she investigates among others notions of interference, collective acts of being in service of something or someone and the informal time and space as a ground for constructive emptiness that yields space for that which we don’t yet know, surprises and the slightly hidden.
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The Voice of a City (2018)

What remains? What did they not see or hear? Which stories do they remember and want to share?
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Monstrous Encounters of Clowns (2016)

Monstrous Encounters of Clowns - An attempt to swallow the world (group creation) concludes a two-year research on topics from contemporary life in which brutality and violence rub against superficiality, the ridiculous and the humorous.
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Monstrous encounters of clowns – An attempt to swallow the world (2014)

Monstrous encounters of clowns - An attempt to swallow the world is a two year project by Nada Gambier in which she will work on the friction between the comic and the brutal in various aspects of life today.
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