Curator Vienna Digital Cultures 2025

Nadim Samman, (b. 1983, Leicester, UK) read Philosophy at University College London before receiving his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was Co-Director of Import Projects e.V. in Berlin from 2012 to 2019 and, concurrently, Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2013–2015). He curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale (with Carson Chan) in 2012, and the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art in 2016. He co-founded and co-curated the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017) and the Antarctic Pavilion in Venice (2015–2017). Widely published, he was awarded First Prize in the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC) in 2019. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. His recent book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene is published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2023) and Luiss University Press (Rome, 2025). Samman lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.