Elia Nurvista

Elia Nurvista explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the discourse on food. Using several mediums from workshop, study group, publication, site specific, performance, video and art installations, she explores the food system to critically scrutinise and address the wider issues such as inequality, ecology, gender, class and geopolitics.

In 2015 she initiated Bakudapan food study group, with whom she has conducted research on food within the socio-political-cultural context of South East Asia. She is part of Struggles for Sovereignty, the solidarity platform on Land, Water, Farming, Food which builds lasting solidarity between groups engaged with struggles for the right to self-determination over basic resources. She has been a fellow at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2018-2019) Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht (2021-2022), Institute for Advanced Study, Nantes, France (2023) and Villa Romana, Firenze (2025). She has curated ADAM LAB at TPAC (Taipei Performing Arts Center) with Transient Collective (2020), Struggle for Sovereignty platform (2020/2021) and participated several exhibition including Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka (2020), Karachi Biennale in Karachi (2019) and The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, at QAGOMA, Brisbane (2018) among others.