Through her multidisciplinary art practice, Nina van Hartskamp (1990, Amsterdam) invites us to reflect on the relationships between humans, non-humans, and the environments we share. Her research-based projects often evolve through personal interactions with people and places—whether in her local neighborhood, people’s bedrooms, a Hungarian village, her mother’s old student house, a museum, a forest, a lover, or a train station.

Working with materials from these spaces—including found objects, living organisms like microbes and plants for natural dyes, and personal stories captured in audio, film, and/or text—Nina examines how we are influenced by one another. Her work touches on themes such as sustainability, community building, climate change, intergenerational trauma, injustice, and colonial histories. How can we breathe, grow, bloom, and die together with care?

By exploring shared spaces and collective narratives with a personal approach, Nina creates experiences that encourage participants and audiences to question normative perspectives and reflect on their relationships with others—both human and non-human. Her work spans site-specific installations, hands-on workshops, ritual performances, public space interventions, and publications, fostering dialogue and connection between diverse communities and their natural surroundings.

Nina’s multifaceted approach to art inspires us to imagine new ways of being—rooted in reciprocity, care, and a deeper awareness of our shared existence within the natural world.