Nina Liebenberg

Nina Liebenberg is a South African artist-curator, currently conducting her post-doctoral research at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. Before moving to Finland, Nina spent the last 10 years working at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Curating the Archive, convening a selection of courses for its curatorial programme. Using curation as method, she explores overlaps and connections between various university departments, and regularly draws on the expertise of individuals from chemistry, medical imaging, physics, engineering, and botany, to create artworks and curate shows portraying the intersection between the quantifiable and the poetic. Her doctoral research (completed in 2021) took the form of an object study that exposed the limitations of insider knowledge and systems of categorization within the academic departments of the University of Cape Town, and demonstrated the explanatory, interdisciplinary potential of curatorship and artmaking. Her current project, Planthology, explores human-plant relationships, using curatorship to convene diverse perspectives on the theme.