Nat Muller

Dr. Nat Muller is an independent curator, writer and researcher based in Amsterdam. She is an expert in contemporary art from the Middle East and in science fiction. In 2019 she curated the Danish Pavilion Heirloom at the 58th Venice Biennale. Her writing has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Art Margins and SFRA and in art publications such as Art Basel, Ocula, Springerin, Hyperallergic, MetropolisM, Bidoun, ArtAsiaPacific, Art Papers, Canvas, X-tra, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, and Ibraaz. Nat has curated video and film screenings for projects and festivals internationally, including for Rotterdam’s International Film Festival, Norwegian Short Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and Video D.U.M.B.O. She has curated projects across Europe and the Middle East for museums, art institutions, festivals, art fairs, and commercial galleries.

Nat has written numerous catalogue texts and is the editor of several artist monographs: Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (Schilt Publishing, 2015); Nancy Atakan: Passing On (Kehrer Verlag, 2016); Walid Siti (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), and Muhannad Shono’s forthcoming monograph with Kehrer Verlag (2024). Her book Science Fiction in Contemporary Art from the Middle East, based on her PhD, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

She has been a nominator for amongst others the Prix Pictet Award; the V&A Jameel Art Prize; the Visible Award; the Paul Huf Photography Award; and the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award. She has sat on advisory committees, including Di’van, A Journal of Accounts; the Mondriaan Fund; municipal artist studios Amsterdam (CAWA); Creative Industries Fund; IMPAKT Festival; TENT Rotterdam, and has been an external policy advisor for E-Culture for Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OC&W) and a consultant for Euro-Mediterranean projects for the European Commission. She has taught across universities and art academies in the Netherlands and abroad.

Photo credit: Artur Weber