Nahum is an artist and musician. His oeuvre goes deep into the human experience, challenging our perceptions through unusual perspectives. Navigating between the real and the imaginary, he produces works that reframe the way we engage with the universe.

He often employs space technologies, illusionism, hypnosis, and music to take audiences into otherworldly journeys to raise critical dialogues about existencehood. Nahum's multidisciplinary work orchestrates a wide range of media including performance, installation, video, music, painting, and storytelling. In 2011, Nahum founded the KOSMICA Institute, a space organisation with a mission to create a platform for critical, cultural, and poetic discourse about our relationship to the Universe, space activities, and their impact on Earth. The Institute develops initiatives that bridge the arts and humanities, the space sector and the broader society.

His work has been showcased at some of the world's most renowned museums, theatres and festivals on an international scale. Among these venues and institutions are:

Nahum was chairman of the Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS) at the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in Paris. He was the first artist to be awarded the Young Space Leader in 2014 and the Karman Fellowship in 2021 for his unique cultural contributions to astronautics and space exploration. He has designed space missions for artistic purposes with the European Space Agency, SpaceX, NASA and Roscosmos.

From 2008 to 2011, Nahum curated the art and performance cult venue Shunt Vaults in London. In 2015, he curated the digital art biennial TransitioMx in Mexico City. Since 2019, Nahum is a Faculty Member at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. From 2016 to 2019, he was a fellow of the National System of Art Creators, National Fund for Culture and Arts in Mexico.

Nahum is a member of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network and a board member of SpaceEU, an initiative to promote a more inclusive space community in Europe. Nahum earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City and completed a Master of Arts degree with honours at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2008. In 2016, he completed the Space Studies Programme at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France and Haifa, Israel.

Nahum performing at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. 

"While Nahum’s investigations actively engage with the cosmos, his work also suggests a more down-to-earth and self-conscious undertone to humanity’s quest to conquer the unknown: understanding ourselves and where we come from." —Hyperallergic

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