Nisrine Boukhari is an artist-theorist currently pursuing her PhD at The Artistic Research department Angewandte Kunst Wien residing between Vienna and Stockholm. In her art-based research projects, she uses language to evoke a distinctive mind’s energy, exploring new realms of imagination that involve the body and the mind in an immersive poetic and sensorial experience through conceptual writing, fragmentation, and deconstructed narrative. Her artistic practice evolved from studying the art of walking, delving into the mental-driven movement of the body across various dimensions. In recent years, Nisrine incorporated the drifting mind into her long-term research on the state of Mind-Wandering. She creates sensorial and participatory installations that center around the body and space, responding poetically through a choreographed audience to blur the boundaries between the artist and the viewer. Much like the body, language holds both personal and public relations significance. She explores how language, through words, sound, and visual interaction, occupies physical space and affirms expanded bodily existence, even in the face of movement difficulties, such as those experienced by exiled individuals. Nisrine is a Co-founder and art advisor of AllArtNow organisation and Living Spaces, International Contemporary art festival, Damascus. She has exhibited in various galleries and museums across Europe, most recently at Arvika Konsthall (2024) and Improper Walls Gallery, Vienna (2024).
Nisrine Boukhari will be an Artist Researcher in Residence at UmArts, and contribute to the Displacement and Hospitality Working Group.
