Nadine Droste is born in 1982 in Hamburg, lives and works in Brussels. She studied at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg and completed the Curatorial Studies program at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Städelschule, graduating with a thesis on critical institutions. In 2018, she founded the experimental exhibition space VIS in Hamburg. From 2019 to 2023, she served as director of the Kunstverein Bielefeld, where she collaborated with artists including SoiL Thornton, Vaclav Pozarek, Julie Béna, Ramaya Tegegne, Rindon Johnson, Toni Schmale, Cudelice Brazelton IV, Lorenza Longhi, Lia Perjovschi, Olivier Foulon, Yeşim Akdeniz, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Adriana Lara, and Bady Dalloul. Following her role as artistic co-director of La Salle de bains in Lyon, Droste conducted research on the body-political dimensions in the work of Sophie Podolski. She currently works as a curator at the Goethe-Institut Brussels.