Short bio

Nadia Tsulukidze was born in Georgia, after finishing the Music Colleague she was living and studying dance in Germany. Coming back to Georgia in 2004, as a freelance artist she collaborated with visual artists and cofounded a multimedia performance group Khikali Juice. She took part in international projects and exhibitions in Turkey, Armenia, Hungary, Italy, Pollen, Slovenia, France and Germany. In 2010 she finished Master of Theater studies at DasArts in Amsterdam with the documentary theater piece ‘Ready for Love or Seven Fragments of Identity’, she was nominated with this work for the Neu/Now Festival 2011 and in 2012 she presented the work in Georgia and England within a frame of the European project  ‘Carmen’. 2013 she made a performance  ‘Me and Stalin’ produced by Traum-A, Boris vzw and Belluard Bollwerk International, coproduced by Kaaitheater Brussels, Frascati Amsterdam, BIT Theatergarasijen and Schlachthaus Theater Bern.


Nadia explores the body, as the result of constant negotiation between social construction and personal choice. This process of negotiation she defines as performative, as it employs the self-performing in relation to the ‘other’. Her work is framed by this perspective and directed towards the exploration of her own ‘self’ in a specific framework.


She worked as an artistic assistance with Edit Kaldor (The Work) and Jochen Stechmann (The Critical Piece), Nada Gambier (A voice of the City) and as a performer with Lado Darakhvelidze (Museum TV Station) and Benno Voorham (Waiting in the Margins, The Road)


From 2015-17 she was involved in various projects in Tbilisi (GE) and since autumn 2017 she is based in Berlin (DE). She produced her lecture-performance ‘Big Bang Backwards’ ( 2018,  2019 ) in Collaboration with District Berlin and the Archive of the GDR Opposition / Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e.V.