Nikima Jagudajev is a Brussels and New York-based, US-born Austrian/Uzbek choreographer whose process-based collaborative practice looks at social and spatial relations and how we assemble in fulfilling and considerate ways. Harnessing the choreography of play as a framework, a world is built with elements such as food, clothing, live music, dance, a deck of cards, and secrets. Performers and visitors are incorporated into an open-ended game through informal invitations to engage in different ways, shifting attention and offering agency and ontological transformation.
Jagudajev’s current Basically project has been presented at Stockholm’s Accelerator, WIELS in Brussels, Shedhalle Zürich, and Norway’s Bergen Kunsthall, with forthcoming presentations at mumok in Vienna this year and Dhaka Art Summit in 2026. Their work has also been shown at Mexico City’s Material Art Fair, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, MoMA PS1 and the Whitney Museum in New York, Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum and LUMA/Westbau Zürich.
As of July 2024