Nina Paim

Nina Paim is a designer, curator, editor, and publisher. Her work is structured around notions of community. She studied at various institutions, from Esdi in Brazil to Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands and Hochschule der Künste Bern in Switzerland. These programmes made her extremely aware of people’s experiences and individual perspectives, which inform her practice. Nina has taught at many renowned institutions, such as her alma mater in the Netherlands and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In 2014, she conceived and curated Taking a Line for a Walk, an exhibition at the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, for which she was later awarded a Swiss Design Award. Other curatorial projects include Feminist Findings (2020, Berlin) and the Etceteras Feminist Festival of Publishing and Design (2023, Porto). In 2019, Nina co-founded the feminist platform Futuress.org, which she co-directed until 2023, when she founded Bikini Books, an independent feminist design publishing house based in Porto.