Tabea Nixdorff is an artist, typographer and researcher. Her artistic practice involves (self)publishing, writing, sound and language based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives, or libraries, Tabea’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error.

Tabea studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US; and Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, the Netherlands. In 2019, her essay Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion [“Reading Errata. Correction as Textual Production”] was published by Spector Books Leipzig. Her artist’s books are held in several public collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, US; the Newberry Library, Chicago, US; and at the Weserburg Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen, Germany. Tabea has done performative readings, often collaboratively, in various places, such as the GfzK – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, diffrakt – centre for theoretical periphery, Berlin, and Perdu, Amsterdam. From 2021 to 2023, her installation Feminist Design Strategies was on view at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, for which she conducted extensive research in queer and feminist Dutch archives and co-organized community-building gatherings. In 2023, Tabea founded the publication series Archival Textures.