Biography:
Nathalie Kertesz is a Barcelona-based visual artist, architect, curator, and cultural activist working at the intersection of memory, diaspora, and urban space. Her research focuses on cultural heritage, identity, and the politics of memory, with particular attention to how these are embedded and negotiated within material contexts.
Her practice combines archival research, visual storytelling, and site-based inquiry, engaging with the ways in which traces of the past persist, transform, and become visible within the contemporary city. She also works with textile as a living material in dialogue with architecture, treating it as a surface that absorbs, registers, and rearticulates traces over time.
She is the founder and artistic director of LABA Barcelona, where she collaborates with artists engaged in text, memory, and cultural transmission.
Education:
2021 Urbs, Virus &Bits, Matadero estudios críticos & Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales de Matadero Madrid (IMNA).
2003-2005 Master in Architecture and Urban Culture. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelona.
2001-2002 'The New Seminar for Curatorship, Theory and Criticism´. Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.
1995-2000 B. Arch, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
1998-2000 The Jerusalem academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem.
1998-1999 Ecole Spéciale d´Architecture, Paris.
Selected Exhibitions and Projects:
2025 LABA Live Change, Convet de Sant Augustí, Barcelona. (Curator and artistic director, Textile Installation).
2024 LABA Live Night, Casa Adret, Barcelona. (Curator and artistic director)
2023 Wall intervention, The Turim Center for performing arts, Jerusalem.
2022 Barbara H. Weil Prize Exhibition. (Selected Artist), Studio Weil, Mallorca.
2022 Constellations. Studio Weil, Mallorca.
2021 Times, Public Art Installation, Hansen House, Jerusalem.
2020 Talpiot, Public Art Installation, Art Cube Artists’ Studios buiding facade, Jerusalem.
2020 Naturalisation, Artist wall, Guest Artist , Residency program, Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem.
2015 ARBA, Sala D`exposicion Ajuntament Vell, Formentera, Spain.
2014 3/, Museu Vestits de Paper, Mollerussa, Spain.
2013 Allí, Sala D`exposicion Ajuntament Vell, Formentera, Spain.
2010 Sound Walk, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France.
2008 Roulotte: 05 Art Magazine. Editors Xavier Arenos, Martí Peran, Domenec, ACM.
2007 Darom Darom, Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Tali Tamir.
2006 ICONICA, ´Relaciones del Arte actual con la realidad´.
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. Curator: Pablo Llorca.
2005 El Hama`ayan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Art contribution and curatorial Project,
2005 Mira como se mueven, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid.
Collaboration with Ze`ev Maor. Curator: Martî Perran.
2005 The CITIZEN Project, Metropolis Program, CCCB, Barcelona.
2004 A New Building, Tel Aviv Museum Of Art. Curatorial Project,
2004 Quien Diabolo Soy yo, Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, BAC!, Barcelona.
2003 Tallers Robert, Exposicion collectiva, Sala de exposiciones Taller Caminal, Barcelona.
2002 Adi Foundation Prize exhibition, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem