Elia Nurvista

Elia Nurvista is an artist who explores a multidisciplinary approach and focuses on the discourse on food politics. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. Using several mediums from workshop, study group, publication, site specific, performance, video and art installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address the wider issues such as ecology, gender, class and geopolitics. She attended one year studio program at Kü nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2018-2019) and Post-academie program at Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht (2021-2022). She was also selected as Artistic Chair and Research Fellows at the Institute for Advanced Study, Nantes, France (2023). She curated Jogja Biennale XVI Equator #6: Indonesia with Oceania, (2021). Nurvista has participated in several exhibitions including Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia (2024), Sharjah Biennial 15 in UEA (2023), Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh (2020) among others. She was nominated for Visible award (2017) for socially-engaged practices.