About

Les espaces de Nadja (LÉDN) is a creative spatial practice founded by architect Anđelka Bnin-Bninski. The practice is engaged in critical approach, exploring the espacement between architecture and art, theory and practice, public and private, stone and paper.

Fueled by Nadja's surrealist impulse, this force is set to challenge our existing living conditions and seeks to act beyond our realities towards mindful reinvention. 

Nadja is polyvalent, subversive and triple-coded - standing for a woman character (Нађа), the notion of hope (нада), and signifying no-one (nadie). Her spaces are home for complexity, serving as a dynamic polygon for exploring a relational play.

Les espaces de Nadja is a studio that acts in inventive gestures through various scales and formats: objects and projects, curating and restoring, built things and buildings, drawing and writing, caving and folding. 

Les espaces de Nadja is a research based practice strongly anchored in trans-disciplinary approach and academic pedagogy. 

Les espaces de Nadja is a fine-tuned wind instrument, based in Belgrade and Bruxelles.

Anđelka Bnin-Bninski, PhD, is an architect-engineer with specialisations in theory of arts and media (University of Arts, Belgrade) and architectural philosophy (ENSA Paris-La Villette, Paris). She works as an educator, practicing architect, curator and trans- and inter-disciplinary researcher. She is founder of the architectural studio Les espaces de Nadja (lédn) and is affiliated with the University of Belgrade − Faculty of Architecture and associated with laboratory Gerphau in Paris. She closely collaborates with the independent artistic and craft scenes and is engaged in multiple international design-driven projects and initiatives. Her current investigations are focused on critical research tactics in practice, architectural renovation projects and stone carving. She also serves as vice-coordinator for the ARENA architectural research network.