Nadia Kaabi Linke

Nadia Kaabi Linke
 
Born in Tunis 1978 to a Russian mother and a Tunisian father, Nadia Kaabi Linke is a Tunisian artist who experienced life in many countries, languages, and cultures, such as Ukraine (Kiev), Tunisia (Tunis and Bizerte), the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and France (Paris). She studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tunis, and later in Paris where she combined her artistic work with the academic formation in philosophy and sciences of art. She also accomplished her scientific research in artistic poeitics, which focused on the subject “The Invisible and the Pictorial Emergence of the Surface in Installation-Paintings” with PhD degree at the Sorbonne University of Paris in 2008. This intellectual concept remained central to here practical artwork: The painting is not the only and not the prior media of her work, but often it seems to be a medium of reflection where even her installations are based on. Today, Nadia lives and works both in Tunis and Berlin.