Nat Muller |
Nat Muller, PhD, is an independent curator, writer and academic living in Amsterdam. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD Lost Futurities: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art from the Middle East at Birmingham City University in 2022. Nat is an expert in contemporary art from the Middle East and curated the Danish pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, showing Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour. She has curated shows at major venues, including Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Mosaic Rooms in London and ifa Gallery in Berlin.
Her writing has been published amongst others in Springerin, MetropolisM, Bidoun, ArtAsiaPacific, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Canvas, X-tra, The Majalla, Art Margins, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Ibraaz, and Ocula. She has also written numerous catalogue and monographic essays. With Alessandro Ludovico she edited the Mag.net Reader2: Between Paper and Pixel (2007), and Mag.net Reader3: Processual Publishing, Actual Gestures (2009), based on a series of debates organized at Documenta XII. She has taught at universities and academies in The Netherlands and the Middle East, and has curated video and film screenings for projects and festivals internationally, including for Rotterdam's International Film Festival, Norwegian Short Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and Video D.U.M.B.O. Her projects include: The Trans_European Picnic: The Media and Art of Accession at Kuda.org, Novi Sad (2004); DEAF04: Affective Turbulence, Rotterdam (2004); Xeno_Sonic (Bruit de Beyrouth, Istanbul Reloaded, Tracing Undercurrents) at De Melkweg, Amsterdam (2005); DEAF07: Snack & Surge, Rotterdam (2007); Spectral Imprints for the Abraaj Group Art Prize in Dubai (2012), Adel Abidin’s solo exhibition I love to love… at Forum Box in Helsinki (2013), Customs Made: Quotidian Practices & Everyday Rituals at Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah (2014); This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam & American University of Beirut Gallery (2014/15); Stirring the Pot of Story: Food, History, Memory at Delfina Foundation in London (2015); Pattern Recognition for the A.M.Qattan 2016 Young Artist of the Year Award for Palestinian artists at Qalandia International in Ramallah (2016) and The Mosaic Rooms in London (2017); Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s solo exhibition Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky at ifa Gallery in Berlin (2019); Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (2020). She curated the Danish Pavilion Heirloom at the 54th Venice Biennale featuring Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour (2019). She is the editor of Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s monograph published by Schilt Publishing (2015); Nancy Atakan’s book Passing On published by Kehrer Verlag (2016); and Walid Siti’s monograph published by Kehrer Verlag (2020). Nat has been a nominator for amongst others the Prix Pictet Award, the V&A Jameel Art Prize, the Visible Award, the Paul Huf Photography Award, and the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award.
Contact: nat[at]natmuller.com