nicole wysokikamien

In my next performance I will make you laugh 8th and 11th of December, Uferstudios Berlin. Free entrance: https://pretix.eu/hzt-berlin/soda-works-23/ a childhood picture an imagined choreography a play on nostalgia an impossible translation a place between tenderness and sorrow a question of how and what to dance una imagen de la infancia una coreografía imaginada una traducción imposible un lugar entre la tristeza y la ternura una pregunta sobre qué bailar y cómo Creation and Performance: Nicole Wysokikamien Sound design: Ben Osborn and MINQ Costume and Stage design: Isabelle Lange Lighting design: Catalina Fernandez Video: Carolina Genoni Mentors: Tatiana Saphir and Juan Dominguez Tutor: Nik Haffner @iso_la_ @_ben_osborn_ @soundslikeminq @carolinagenoni.k @all.about.tati @fanilatac_2 @juandominguezrojo

mirando a la nada pensando en el drama con @burcubilzic already missing the never ending drama con mi familia corazón @ger.zin 📸 @a.khatchikian

Thank you @sophiensaele team for hosting us in the New Techniques residency. Focusing on the 1990s telenovela Muñeca Brava, the research departs from the series’ transnational circulation across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. It approaches melodrama as an embodied technique: a non-institutional language absorbed through collective spectatorship in late 1990s television. Burcu Bilgiç and Nicole Wysokikamien, together with the performer and musician Anton Gerzina, hack Muñeca Brava’s scenes, diving into their early imaginaries of gender, class, and desire. Nostalgia and cringe become tools for revisiting these imaginaries. Working with movement material drawn from the show—long gazes, confrontations, stillness, sudden runs—the research reorganizes these elements to open them to new affective possibilities. Thank you for being such a solid curator + dramaturg✨ and for trusting us in the process @dancemom666 🔥 We were luck to be accompanied by amazing dramaturgical support of @jenrosenblit and video shooting and editing support by @naz_li_k 🤍 amazing pictures from the opening by 📸 @a.khatchikian

a few glimpses into our Muñeca Brava research universe from the past weeks we’re opening our doors this thursday to embrace our nostalgia in the cringiest way thursday, 19.03 - 18:00 at @sophiensaele Kantine free entry info and registration here: /en/stueck/new-techniques-xv-burcu-bilgic-and-nicole-wysokikamien me muero de amor con @burcubilzic y @ger.zin

this is the lovely register by @sophie.szabo from 𝘓𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦 last thursday. thank you to everyone who came and took this game so seriously, especially my fictional families. thanks @ashbela for your sharp, attentive and caring eye, and for the laughter throughout; @sofia.papita for the beauty of the veil, the costume, every detail, and for the endless emotional support, and @andreadarsie for the last minute tech magic thanks to the amazing @lababerlin fellows and team for holding this process looking forward to getting married again soon ❤️‍🔥

Lay All Your Love on Me November 8th and 13th 7 pm and 6 pm respectively Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Free entrance In Lay All Your Love on Me, I turn the Jewish wedding ritual into a loose choreographic score, inviting guests to help me fulfill my grandma’s dream of seeing me under a chuppah. This work is created with @sofia.papita , who is doing the costume design, and @ashbela who shares dramaturgical support as we find our own ways to reclaim and reimagine an old ritual. the work was developed during my fellowship at @lababerlin , hosted by @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien . I want to thank @hyperspaceman95 for all the bridal-ghostly conversations we had (and will continue to develop 🤍), and @aba.naia for the recent support and generosity in sharing methodologies and concerns. looking forward to seeing you there save your spot by writing to [email protected]

this thursday we open the doors of our exhibition at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien come see the works of this group of artists with whom we’ve been practicing, for the past six months, some possible ways of being together in the gallery you’ll find something I made with my beloved @sofia.papadopulos (she actually made it) - a trace of Lay All Your Love On Me, the performance I’ll share more about soon. meanwhile, I’m practicing how to cover my head with white things, using rings for the first time in my life, and listening to the cheesiest playlist I’ve ever made thanks @lababerlin for making this possible, and fellows for saving me this year

The Intelligence of Plants by @interspecifics with @veroniqa.tikhonova as part of @plant.stories_ at @zku.berlin gracias @microhm.io y paloma por la invitación y @sofia.papadopulos por el vestuario y las fotos 🌱

@100yearsdaad 2025 feiern wir 100 Jahre internationale Zusammenarbeit durch den DAAD und stellen Stipendiat*innen der UdK Berlin vor. STUDIERENDENPERSPEKTIVE Lerne Nicole Wysokikamien kennen! Ich bin Tanzkünstlerin und Forscherin aus Montevideo, Uruguay, und lebe nun in Berlin. Nach meiner Ausbildung an der Nationalen Tanzschule Uruguays studierte ich Literatur (BA), Darstellende Kunsttheorie (Diplom) und absolvierte den MA Solo/Dance/Authorship am @hzt_berlin – unterstützt durch ein DAAD-Stipendium (2022-2024). Meine Arbeit untersucht das Zusammenspiel von Choreografie, Text und Performance – oft mit autobiografischem Material und Humor. Zu meinen Projekten zählen „In my next performance I will make you laugh” (2023) und eine performative Umsetzung von Anne Carsons „The Beauty of the Husband” (2025). Das DAAD-Stipendium ermöglichte mir, mich auf meinen Master zu konzentrieren, Deutsch zu lernen und zeigte mir: Gesicherte Bedingungen schaffen Raum für Forschung und Kreativität – besonders wichtig in der oft prekären Kunst- und Kulturlandschaft. ___ @100yearsdaad In 2025 we celebrate 100 years of international cooperation through DAAD and highlight scholarship holders at the Berlin University of the Arts. STUDENT PERSPECTIVE Meet Nicole Wysokikamien! I’m a dance artist and researcher from Montevideo, Uruguay, now based in Berlin. After training at Uruguay’s National Dance School, I studied Literature (BA), Performing Arts Theory (Diploma), and completed the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship at @hzt_berlin – supported by a DAAD fellowship (2022-2024). My work explores how choreography, text, and performance intersect, often using autobiographical material and humor. Projects include “In my next performance I will make you laugh” (2023) and a performative version of Anne Carson’s “The Beauty of the Husband” (2025). The DAAD fellowship allowed me to focus on my Master, improve my German, and proved: secure conditions expand the capacity for research and creativity – essential in the often-precarious arts field. ___ #DAAD100 #InternationalExchange #udkinternational #udkberlin #performanceartist #creativeprocess

esta foto es de una performance que hice en algún verano entre el 99 y el 2001. el vestuario era alquilado y en el público seguro estaban mis padres, quizás mis tíos y primos. supongo que ensayé durante el día y la mostré esa misma noche. no me acuerdo de qué se trataba, pero casi seguro había algo de shakira. la foto la sacó mi fotógrafo oficial de la infancia @bernardowysokikamien yesterday I showed the picture to @veroniqas_96_sticks and she said what I’m wearing looks like a kokoshnik (Кокошник), a russian headdress traditionally worn by married women, often as part of a festive or wedding outfit.

dancing to Carson and Piazolla in Hamburg, con el pelo recién teñido. 📸@the__schmidt_

playing around Anne Carson’s “The beauty of the husband: a fictional essay in 29 tangos” for the @buchmessehh at @kampnagel_hamburg thanks @alinakiez and @pajam_arzu for the invite dedicado a mi amiga @guillerminagancio porque quiero bailar con ella siempre 🤍