Kelly Krugman

Kelly Nayaase-Naxhiñaa’ Krugman (b. 1994, New Jersey) is a Zapotec-Jewish/Mexican-American curator, cultural worker, and editor centered with SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, in Berlin. Her practice moves through sound, spirit, storytelling, and collaboration, approaching curatorial work as a means of channeling embodied knowledge across temporalities and geographies. In partnership with artists and transdisciplinary makers, she tends to spaces of epistemic exchange and anti-hegemonic disobedience. Refusing the impositions of dominant history, their work dwells in diasporic in-betweens and liminal spaces —where relation is a method, unlearning a ground, and art a gesture of meaning-making to reimagine otherwise.

She is currently co-curator of STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES, a performative and discursive research project and residency programme of counter-narratives to U.S. imperialism and colonialism, and EYES, COME BACK, a staged exhibition and series of activations with Setareh Shahbazi. They have been part of curatorial teams of exhibitions and projects such as CURES: Chronic Promises (2024), 4+3=1, There Are Stories to Be Forged for Common Denominators to Come Forth and Social Balance to Be Restored (2022), LIMITS OF PERCEPTION LAB. Your Country of Two Dimensions Is Not Spacious Enough with Ivana Franke, ECOLOGIES OF DARKNESS. Building Grounds on Shifting Sands(2018–2019), and ULTRASANITY. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance (2019-2020), to name a few. 

She is also co-founder and co-curator of SAVVYZΛΛR radio, initiated with Kamila Metwaly and Arlette Louise-Ndakoze.  

Kelly@DAI:

2024-2025 COOP study group ~ An Invitation to Action - A Basis for Hope