Nadine Karl’s artistic practice is driven by a search for the space between fiction and reality—beyond human perception and what it might be like there. Working across installation and sculpture, she develops fictional environments in which human and non-human perspectives intersect, exploring new notions of temporality, corporeality, ecology, and interconnectedness. In doing so, she creates emotional spaces that generate their own distinct states.

Ecofeminist theory provides a central conceptual framework for her work. It critically examines hierarchical structures and anthropocentric paradigms, while articulating models of coexistence grounded in vulnerability, empathy, and reciprocal interdependence.

Literature and film function as conceptual and imaginative frameworks through which she explores speculative ecologies and hybrid modes of existence, translating them into spatial and atmospheric configurations. Sand plays a defining role within this material language, signifying…