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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 has been a resident at Fabrica Research Centre and V2_ Lab for Unstable Media, and has exhibited at CBK Zuidoost, Brutus, Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum, and design weeks in Eindhoven, Vienna, and Milan.
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Exhibitions and projects
Nurturing the Fire of Our Militant Witches
Plaatsmaken
Arnhem, NL
Feb 2026
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
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 fundsBest Thesis, Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
2025
Stadterbeit Social Design Prize
Vienna Design Week
2024
Stimulerings, Salone de Mobile
Milan Design Week
2024
AcademicMA Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
2025
BA Media Studies
Universitas Indonesia/Deakin University
2018
Last Updated 26.01.10