Kelly Nayaase-Naxhiñaa’ Krugman (b. 1994, New Jersey) is a Zapotec-Jewish descendant/Mexican-American independent curator, cultural worker, and editor based in Berlin. Her practice moves through sound, spirit, and storytelling, channeling embodied knowledge across temporalities and geographies. In partnership with artists and transdisciplinary makers, she tends to spaces of epistemic exchange and anti-hegemonic disobedience.
She has contributed to curatorial teams for projects including Standing in the Cracks of Multiple Histories (2024–2025), Eyes, Come Back (2025), Cures: Chronic Promises (2024), 4+3=1 (2022), Limits of Perception Lab (2019), Ecologies of Darkness (2018–2019), and Ultrasanity (2019–2020), among others. She is also co-founder and co-curator of SAVVYZΛΛR, a radio platform dedicated to sound as a space of repair, catharsis, and protest, initiated with Kamila Metwaly and Arlette Louise-Ndakoze.
She is a member of SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas.
