Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
Architect, Researcher; Notational Systems, Migration and Human Rights


— The Language of Secret Proof: Indigenous Truth and Representation, a book on the double bind of evidence-production within Native land claims, published by Sternberg Press in November 2019


— “Significant Impact,” an essay co-written with Caitlin Blanchfield on the ongoing construction of militarized surveillance infrastructure on the Tohono O’odham Nation, published by e-flux architecture within the At The Border series in April 2020

— “Mapping Demands for an Architecture of Hospitality,” an essay co-written with Johannes Pointl on Austrian asylum accommodations and published in the edited volume Building Critique: Architecture and its Discontents by Spector Books in December 2019

— “‘Persistent Surveillance’: Militarized Infrastructure on the Tohono O’odham Nation“ explores cartographies and counter-cartographies of surveillance, published in The Avery Review No. 40 (May 2019)

— Recipient of a 2018 Graham Foundation Research Grant

— “Assessing Surveillance: Infrastructures of Security in the Tohono O’odham Nation,” a research report co-written with Caitlin Blanchfield and Ophelia Rivas, published in ED#1 (November 2017)

— No Return To Normal: On Legal, Spatial and Time-Based Realities of Property Claims, Home Occupations and Exchanges, a research residency and solo-exhibition at Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo (2016+2017)

— “Bewegung als ziviler Ungehorsam - Migration und Solidarität auf Lesbos,” a visual essay on refugee movements and aid organisation on Lesvos Island, co-written and drawn with Nora Akawi, Johannes Pointl and Eduardo Rega, published in Stadt Bauwelt#212/ 41: Exil Europa (December 2016)

— Movement as Civil Disobedience: Mapping Migration and Solidarity on Lesvos Island, an exhibition contribution to After Belonging, Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 with Nora Akawi, Johannes Pointl and Eduardo Rega

— Recipient of the Deborah J. Norden Fund 2016 awarded by The Architectural League of New York

— “On the hospitality of Austrian tourism establishments towards asylum seekers,“ a research report co-written with Johannes Pointl for the Austrian Pavillion Magazin, Venice Architecture Biennial 2016

— Recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Artist Award in Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, awarded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery

— Fluchtraum Österreich, guest edition of the quarterly magazin asyl aktuell #2/2015 co-edited with Johannes Pointl, published by Asylkoordination Österreich

— “The Architect's Expertise in a Judicial Context,” a Funambulist podcast interview recorded on March 30, 2014

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