Nahum (born in 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico) is an artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer and artistic director who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work combines outer space technologies, illusionism, and hypnosis to create alternative and extreme perspectives of human experience. He is also known under the names of Nahum Mantra and Nahum Romero Zamora. Biography Nahum "is the new generation of young professional artists creating new imaginaries that will infect the ideas of tomorrow that will make the future of space possible and is part of a movement in countries outside the major space-faring nations that is taking ownership of the space futures". Nahum is the first artist to receive the Young Space Leader Award; for his contributions to astronautics and space exploration. Nahum is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators, National Endowment for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in Mexico and an associate artist at The Arts Catalyst, London. Nahum was the head curator of the Shunt Lounge in London. In 2015 he curated the Transitio_MX Biennial in Mexico City. He is the Founding Director of the KOSMICA Institute and chaired the Technical Activities Committee for the Cultural Use of Space (ITACCUS) at the International Astronaitical Federation (IAF). Nahum has chaired the Committee on the Cultural Use of Space (ITACCUS) at the International Astronautical Federation based in Paris, France. This committee "seeks to promote and facilitate the innovative utilisation of space (data, systems, applications) by organisations in the cultural sectors of society internationally, including all areas of the arts and humanities, including the fine arts, entertainment, popular culture and tourism." In 2014 Nahum was the first artist to receive the Young Space Leader Award by the International Astronautical Federation for his artistic and cultural contributions to space exploration. This award recognises exceptional young professionals that have demonstrated leadership in their academic or early careers. He joined the jury in 2016 His work has been exhibited internationally in venues including: Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm); Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK); KSEVT (Slovenia); Polytechnic Museum (Moscow); Southbank Centre (London); Rubin Center for the Visual Arts (El Paso, USA); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (Mexico), Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico); Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico (Mexico). Studies In 2016 he graduated from the International Space University (ISU), where he completed the Space Studies Program at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa,