Nicola Brandt is a Namibian-German artist working at the intersection between memory studies, landscape, ecology, and feminist and queer theory. Much of her work is focused on transfiguring male power—its political arrangements and landscapes. In turn, she celebrates entanglements of pleasure, solidarity and rebellion.
Brandt is the author of the monograph Landscapes between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Video and Performance Art pub- lished with Bloomsbury in 2020. She has contributed to publications including The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (2020), the reader of the 13th Edition of the Bamako Biennale (2022), co-edited by Simon Njami and Sean O’Toole.
She is the founder and series editor of the artists’ and writers’ residency Con- versations Across Place (CaP). The first CaP volume (2021) was published
with Greenbox Publishing in Berlin. The artist holds a doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Oxford and is currently based between Germany and Namibia.