Nina Caviezel , M.A. BFH

Nina Caviezel is a Predoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions and a doctoral candidate under Professor Estelle Blaschke in Media Studies at the University of Basel. In her dissertation project, she examines the visualization practices of the James Webb Space Telescope. Her focus lies on the processes of translating infrared radiation of astronomical phenomena into scientific images in contemporary space telescopy. On the basis of laboratory visits and interviews with astrophysicists, she explores the production and analysis of these images and documents her observations in written as well as artistic-research formats.
Nina Caviezel has been funded by the Janggen-Pöhn Foundation as well as the Nikolaus and Bertha Burckhardt Bürgin Foundation. The latter enabled her to conduct laboratory visits at NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute and archival research at Harvard University in the summer of 2025. She completed her Bachelor’s degree (2021) and Master’s degree (2023) in Art Education and Art History at the Bern University of the Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, and the University of Bern. Nina Caviezel’s artistic practice revolves around processes of intermedial translation and has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and offspaces in Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Her Master’s thesis Observing H. An Artistic-Research Approach to the Hydrogen Atom was awarded the Ober-Gerwern Master’s Prize in 2023.