
Netti Nüganen (b. 1995) is a performance artist and a musician.
At increasingly alienating times, quickly considered "normal", Nüganen (she/ her/a doomer) questions which ways of storytelling are needed, and what's at stake. Her work engages with dark ecology through sound-rich, narrational approaches. Nüganen steps into dialogue with her surrounding environment by working often with large amounts of natural materials such as clay powder, freshly mown grass, and ice. These materials become agents of storytelling. Building narratives while deconstructing them is Nüganen's method to open up space for new dramatics. Through archetypes like weightlifter, teenage vlogger, historian, cowboy, tourist and real-estate agent she looks at the present time. She examins how these characters are deployed in our collective consciousness, and the mythic ways they operate - using the performative moment to confront and to transform.
At increasingly alienating times, quickly considered "normal", Nüganen (she/ her/a doomer) questions which ways of storytelling are needed, and what's at stake. Her work engages with dark ecology through sound-rich, narrational approaches. Nüganen steps into dialogue with her surrounding environment by working often with large amounts of natural materials such as clay powder, freshly mown grass, and ice. These materials become agents of storytelling. Building narratives while deconstructing them is Nüganen's method to open up space for new dramatics. Through archetypes like weightlifter, teenage vlogger, historian, cowboy, tourist and real-estate agent she looks at the present time. She examins how these characters are deployed in our collective consciousness, and the mythic ways they operate - using the performative moment to confront and to transform.
Having attained a BA in choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Nüganen's works have been shown at My Wild Flag festival, Batard Festival, Pre-Urbaines, Tartu Art Museum, KIM? gallery, SAAL Biennaal, Impulstanz, Lisbon Film Festival, Lewisham Art Gallery, Sequences Festival, Rakete Festival and more.
Next to that she has been touring since 2017 with Florentina Holzinger’s performances “Apollon”, “Tanz”, "Ophelia's Got Talent", “SANCTA” and “A Year Without Summer”.

https://www.ashadecolder.com/between-fantasy-and-hardcore-reality-the-performance-worlds-of-netti-nuganen
https://www.pw-magazine.com/articles/netti-nuganen-collapse-storytelling
https://www.temuki.ee/archives/7680
https://ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/120223810/netti-nuganen-amsterdamis-votsin-oppelaenu-mida-ei-plaani-veel-tagasi-maksta
https://kultuur.postimees.ee/7710031/kultuuris-kuum-netti-nuganen-sarab-berliini-pealaval
NETTI NÜGANEN