Nina Hanz
W r i t e r - P o e t - A r t i s t
Guest Lectures & Performances ​
2024
Wege der Annäherung - Visiting Lecturer, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle (Saale)
Drawing is Writing,Writing is Drawing - Visiting Lecturer, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle (Saale)​
2023
Non-human Voices & Poetry: Performance Lecture with Fiona Glen, National Poetry Library, London
Sporing Poetry: Workshop & Lecture with Fiona Glen, Floating University, Berlin​
2022
Art Writing - Visiting Lecturer, Bauhaus University, Weimar
2020
Writing the Body - A Close Reading, Assembly House, Norwich
Writing the Body with Tai Shani, Royal College of Art, London
Sick: Breaking Down the Language of Illness with Johanna Hedva, Royal College of Art, London
Poetry Pamphlets
Mycoglossia, Haverthorn Press, 2022 co-written with Fiona Glen
Placeholders, Bottlecap Press, 2022
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Selected Poems
'How to stray a sentence', for Mute Move by Nicl Barbro und Rahel Pötsch, 8. Salon, Hamburg
'3 Hypotheses', for Sleeping with the lights on by Ryder Morey-Weale, Atelier Villeneuve, Marseille
'Watermelon Snow', Anthropocene Journal
'Untitled (from the Silueta Series, 1973-1977 by Ana Medieta', amberflora
'Second Skin', VOGUE 🎥
'Contagion closer to Animal' co-written with Fiona Glen, ARC 🔊
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​Selected Essays & Reviews
'Resurrected in Times of Need', 2024, Passe-Avant
'Exit Elsewhere: Beyond the Body, Beyond Place', 2024, in Heike Kabisch. The World Pulse Beats Beyond My Door, ChertLüdde
'What transports us: Visual Riffing in the Paintings of Gabriela Těthalov', 2024, Artist Portfolio 
'Tender Cannibalism: Diffracting Eva Fàbregas's Devouring Lovers through Daisy Lafarge's Lovebug', 2023, Arts of the Working Class
'The Flesh, The Mesh, The Mushroom', 2023 co-written with Fiona Glen, Map Magazine
'Part of the Landscape: Interview with Miek Zwamborn', 2022, JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students, Volume 7, Issue 1-2
'Review of Life Without Air', 2021, Spam
'Artist Portrait: Kristina Chan', 2021, Printmaking Today, print
'Review of Thao Nguyen Phan's Becoming Alluvium', 2020, This is tomorrow
'Minerva in Seven Pieces: Review of Johanna Hedva's nonfiction book', 2020, Map Magazine ​​​​
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Editorial Projects​
My Daughter Terra, Plaintiff Press, 2023
Hay cuerpos cansados por el viaje que buscan enraizarse, Bungalow/ChertLüdde, 2022
Journal of Art Writing by Students (JAWS), Intellect Books, 2020-2022
Attention Anthology, RCA 2020
NOIT — 5: BODIES AS IN BUILDING, Flat Time House/RCA, 2019
Grazia UK, Editorial Intern, London, 2019
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Curatorial Projects ​
2025
Text for FEROCE by Massimiliano Rossetto, standard/deluxe, Lausanne (forthcoming) ​
Event for Memories in Deep Creeks with Heike Kabisch, Hannah Endrulat & Cavid Dhen, 22.03.25, ChertLüdde, Berlin
2024
A Soft Edge to Break a Sword, Co-curator, ChertLüdde, Berlin
Text for Mute Move by Nicl Barbro und Rahel Pötsch, 8. Salon, Hamburg
Text for Sleeping with the lights on by Ryder Morey-Weale, Atelier Villeneuve, Marseille
Universe of the Hybrids, by Theresa Weber, Bungalow, Berlin
Text for I dreamt of tearing the storm into fragments by Heike Kabisch and Zora Mann, Grisebach, Berlin
​Sapho's Call - Event for stars around this beautiful moon / hide back their luminous form by Rodrigo Hernández, 03.02.24, ChertLüdde, Berlin
2023
Marleen Rothaus: Chapel of Care and Rage, Bungalow, Berlin
2022​
Sprawa Kobieca by Wera Bet, Porcino, Berlin​
Event for Hay cuerpos cansados por el viaje que buscan enraizarse with Sofía Salazar Rosales, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, Savanna Morgan & Isadora Soares Belletti, 25.08.22, ChertLüdde, Berlin
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Education
2018 – 2022
MA Writing, Royal College of Art, London
2015 – 2018
BA Humanities: Art Theory with Philosophy & Literature, University College Maastricht, Maastricht
Erasmus: English Literature, University of Exeter, Falmouth
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Press​​
'Publishing Beyond People' by Chris McCabe, The Bookseller, 18 April 2023
'The Act of Naming: Review of Placeholders' by Frith Taylor, Review 31, 2022
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About​​
Nina Hanz is a German-American writer based in Berlin. In 2020, she graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Writing programme where she cultivated her practice around time and place, geology and ecology. Both her prose and poetry deal with unexpected iterations of the ground, from the grit that gets stuck in a clam shell to the gunk that gets stuck under our fingernails. She has read her work at the National Poetry Library, London; Floating University, Berlin and Assembly House, Norwich amongst others. Nina's poetry can be found in places such as Vogue, Daisy World Magazine, Ache Magazine, and Attention anthology. Her first poetry pamphlet Placeholders was published by Bottlecap Press, February 2022 and her second pamphlet Mycoglossia co-writen with Fiona Glen was published by Haverthorn Press, December 2022. She is also the editor of the anthology My Daughter Terra, published by Plaintiff Press, February 2023. Her essays as well as literature and art reviews can be found published online and in print. Nina is currently the Press and Director of Communications at the ChertLüdde gallery in Berlin.
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