Nadine Kesting Jiménez completed a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the Universidad de Murcia and the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in 2010. She then studied interior design at the Burg Giebichenstein Halle University of Art and Design, during which time she participated in architectural planning processes in Mali, Istanbul and Zurich and implemented exhibitions and projects with local people; she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 2017. She completed her Master's degree in architecture at the HTWK Leipzig in 2021 with a thesis on the perception of space in the digital age as a playing field for temporary architecture. She worked on the new SAB building in Leipzig in 2021 in the area of construction management at Hahn-Muno Ingenieurgesellschaft. Since 2019, she has been part of Betonkiste e.V. with studio BAFF and supports the planning process for the conversion of the self-managed project, which provides space for workshops of creative groups in a former warehouse in the west of Leipzig. Since September 2021, she has been working as a research assistant in the DFG research project "Architecture and Space for the Performing Arts - Developments since the 1960s".