NETTI NÜGANEN
STAGE
  1. ash, horizon, riding a house 2025
  2. the myth: last day 2022
  3. victoria’s secret 2020
  4. b b 2019
  5. the story... 2019
SOUND
  1. riding a house 2023
SITE-SPECIFIC
  1. funny mountain I 2024
  2. funny mountain II 2024
  3. temporary business 2021
VIDEO
  1. im rules & im rules II 2017 & 2018
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WORKSHOPS

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coming up    SANCTA Opera Antwerp / 4 - 10 April 2026         coming up       ASH, HORIZON, RIDING A HOUSE @Baltic Dance Platform, Vilnius. 23. April   coming up     SEA WORLD at Venice Biennale / Austrian Pavilion. May 2026        

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coming up    SANCTA Opera Antwerp / 4 - 10 April 2026         coming up       ASH, HORIZON, RIDING A HOUSE @Baltic Dance Platform, Vilnius. 23. April   coming up     SEA WORLD at Venice Biennale / Austrian Pavillion        

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 contemporary 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 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