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".

Exhibition   

2021  Kann Demokratie gebaut werden? | Aktionstage zum Mathäikirchof | Leipzig
2020 Demokratie bauen | Revolutionale 2020 | Leipzig
2016  Café_Where is our time?_Zamanımız nerede? | Halka Sanat Galeri | Istanbul
2015 Garden Unique | Spoga+gafa | Cologne
  MADE | Design Week Sao Paolo | Brasil
  Mind Structures | Architektur Salon 2015 | Cologne

Lectures | Talks | Presentations   

2022 Theatre Architecture. Construction; Discourse and Performative Practice |
Curated panel for the 15. GTW- Congress "Matters of Urgan Urgency" | Berlin
2022 History, appropriation, shaping public space - four perspectives on memory culture as urban praxis |
Curated panel by Verena Eitel and Nadine Kesting Jiménez for the conference URBANE PRAXIS. | Leipzig
2019 Collaborative work in Mali and Sub-Sahara | Laboratory of Construction and Architecture EPFL | Lausanne

Publications   

2023 MAP #13 Urbane Praxis und kulturelle Infra-Strukturen | MAP | Germany
2023 #cuttingthroughthenoise #whatyouseeiswhatyouget | Qucosa HTWK-Leipzig | Germany
2016  Public art now | Sandu Publishing | China
2015  Liquid Spaces | Gestalten | Germany
2015   bob magazine | n° 125 | Corea
2014 AIT | Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Technischer Ausbau | Germany