Karin Iturralde Nurnberg (b. 1992, Guayaquil-Ecu)
Based between EC and NL email: karin.iturralde@gmail.com





When moving outside of my teenage room and out of my mother’s house I found myself still inside a gated neighborhood. Jeez. Moving across these different walls into different environments, countries and cultures many mediums and languages found their way into my practice as I mapped my way outside... of the ways... I used to know.
Grrrrrrassssp. 

Walks in the city, rucola maps, video encounter with strangers, large scale print making in the airplane during the flight Guayaquil-Amsterdam. Ways to grab and get a grip, look closely and try to stop the automatic voice of google map narration telling me to ‘continue straight’ without checking out what-is-going-on-in-this-one-way-road and if there is maybe, other ways to continue moving. Dear google, didn't you know I’m queer since I’m 16.

Regarding the materiality of my practice things span broad with materials that are often at hand. Toilet paper rolls, napkins, food scraps, the clothes of my grandfather, memories, paper tape, walks & conversations. 
I recognize a poetic influence from conceptual and fluxus art as well as from magical realism literature and see the poetics around my gestures and performances as a line which holds my practice while fluctuating from one material to another.

I’ve been granted the Holland Scholarship and the Mondrian Fonds Start Stipend.  I’ve published ‘Portraits of Rucola’ and ‘11 Hours of Clouds’.