INFORMATION
Nadia Bakhshi (b. 1994)
Nadia Bakhshi is a media artist, theatre maker, and director based in Amsterdam.
She works across video games, sound performance, and installation. Drawing from theatre and game design, she constructs participatory systems where participants become active agents within unstable, often contradictory dramaturgies.
Her work has been presented at WORM Rotterdam, Dutch National Opera, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and festivals including Opera Forward Festival, O Festival Rotterdam, Synergy Art Festival and ADE. Nadia’s current research focuses on dissociation, identity, and the politics of perception within hybrid performative systems.
EDUCATION
Sandberg Institute
Re:Master Opera MA
2022 — 2024
British Higher School of Art and Design Moscow
New Media in Contemporary Art
2020 — 2022
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts Moscow
Opera/Musical Theatre Directing BA
2013 — 2018
Saint Petersburg Institute of Culture and Arts
Theatre Directing
2011 — 2013
selection
“Toolkit Party”
VR performative installation
group show
Hau Berlin Digital Stage
Berlin, GER
2024
“Cerca Trova”
Video game
solo show, online exhibition
Ges-2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RUS
2023
“nostos”
Live Radio installation WORMxAMARTE at WORM RADIO, Rotterdam, NL
2023
“Birch 0. Op.2”
Installation
Group show commissioned by VAC - foundation at Ges-2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RUS.
2023
“Cerca Trova”
Video game
Group show “Piep, knars, krijs, kraak” by Mokum Kraakt in Het Monument, Amsterdam, NL
2022
“Much water has flown under the bridge since that time”
Solo show
30/7 Gallery , Moscow, RUS
2022
“FISH DAY”
Group show
Performance at Zverev Center of Contemporary Art Moscow, RUS
2021
selection
“Songcycle for a Sad Clown”. Amsterdam Fringe Festival /
Perdu, Amsterdam, NL Commissioned Singer, Performer
2025
“Rites of Play”
Colourscape Festival / Synergy Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Composer, Singer, Performer
2025
“Seeking Solace”
POST Arnhem, Arnhem, NL Comissioned Performer
2024
“Restless Whirls. Soap Opera”
O. Festival, Rotterdam, NL / Sandberg Grand Expo at Door Open Space, Amsterdam, NL
Composer / Director / Performer / Media Artist
2024
“ NEED FOR [SING]: The Last Ensnarlamento”
Opera Forward Festival 2024, Dutch National Opera,
Amsterdam, NL
Opera director
2024
“Birch 0”
Performance at Ges-2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RUS
Media Artist / Director / Dramaturg
2022
”LOG”
Art & Science Opera
CoOPERAtion Lab Art & Science, Moscow Opera House “Novaya Opera”, Rus
Opera director
2021