Nina Paim
Title
Honorary Doctor
Person Type
Honorary
Nina Paim is a designer, curator, and editor-turned-publisher, whose work revolves around notions of community. She has studied across a variety of institutions, from Esdi in Brazil to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands and the Hochschule der Künste Bern in Switzerland. These programmes made her acutely aware of people’s lived experiences and individual perspectives, which inform her practice.
Nina has taught in many esteemed institutions, such as her alma mater in the Netherlands and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In 2014, she designed and curated Taking a Line for a Walk, an exhibition at the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, for which she was later awarded a Swiss Design Award. Her other curatorial projects include Feminist Findings (2020, Berlin) and the Etceteras Feminist Festival of Publishing and Design (2023, Porto).
In 2019, Nina co-founded the feminist platform Futuress.org, which she co-directed until 2023 when she founded Bikini Books, an independent feminist publisher for design based in Porto, Portugal.