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Nabila Ernada is an Indonesian design researcher and media artist based in Rotterdam. Traditionally trained as a communications specialist and social strategist in Indonesia, she has a background in Media Studies and Social Design from Universitas Indonesia and Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work explores the in-between zones of surveillance and resistance, tracing how media and technology infrastructures govern visibility, legality, and the body.

She is currently an artist in residence at Roodkapje and is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of History, UvA, where she researches Indonesian voices within Dutch colonial radio infrastructures. She has previously been in residence at Fabrica Research Centre and V2_ Lab for Unstable Media, and has exhibited at MaMA, CBK Zuidoost, Brutus, Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum, and design weeks in Eindhoven, Vienna, and Milan.

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Exhibitions and projects

Lecture performance: Unearthing, Uprooting
Stroom Den Haag
The Hague, NL
Mar 2026

Teach in: Nurturing the Fire of Our Militant Witches
Plaatsmaken
Arnhem, NL
Feb 2026

Group exhibition: Shadow Circuits
MaMA
Rotterdam, NL
Feb 2026

Jordan, jordan Édition; Sharjah Art Foundation: Focalpoint Art Book Fair
Sharjah
Dec 2025

Museumnacht Amsterdam
CBK Zuidoost
Amsterdam, NL
Nov 2025

DAE Graduation Show
Dutch Design Week
Microstad
Eindhoven, NL
Nov 2025

Group exhibition: it smells like sweat and jasmine
CBK Zuidoost
Amsterdam, NL
Sept 2025

I’m never doing this again, in collaboration with Yara Veloso, Sophie Allerding, Anna Bierler, Mila Broomberg, Lucila Pacheco Dehne, Isabel Legate and Colette Aliman
Rotterdam, NL
Sept 2025

Brutus Wild Art of Summer, in collaboration with Linda Ucilniece
Brutus
Rotterdam, NL
Jul 2025

Research presentation: Haunting the Network: Gendered Surveillance and Media Memory. How can visibility become a trap?
varia
Rotterdam, NL
Jul 2025

(Re)defining Kartini
Verzetsmuseum
Amsterdam, NL
Apr 2025

Bacchanalia: Absorbs the night
Van Abbemusem
Eindhoven, NL
Mar 2025

Schmiede Workshau (part of V2_ Summer Sessions)
Hallein, AT
Sept 2024

Kiosk t-w
Vienna Design Week, supported by Stadterbeit Social Design Prize
Vienna, AT
Sept 2024

Elevator Radio @ BASE Milano
Milan Design Week
Milan, IT
Apr 2024

Figures by Figure
Jakarta, ID
Jun 2023

here becomes elsewhere
Fabrica Research Centre
Treviso, IT
Mar 2023

Awards and funds

Best Thesis, Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
2025

Stadterbeit Social Design Prize
Vienna Design Week
2024

Stimulerings, Salone de Mobile
Milan Design Week
2024

Academic

PhD candidate
History of the Indonesian Programme of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep 1945-1965 University of Amsterdam
2026-ongoing

MA Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
2023-2025

BA Media Studies
Universitas Indonesia/Deakin University
2014-2018

Radio 📻

V2_ Interview
April 2026, Operator Radio

Guest mix, MaMA
April 2026, Operator Radio

Guest host, “Le Téléphone Rose”
November 2025, Operator Radio

Bonus! Not related to my work, but I have a radio show and DJ duo called Touching Feelings, exploring the yin and yang of club structures and ambient haze. Listen to our residency at Radio Tempo Não Pára. 🩵