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BIOGRAPHY | SELECTED WORKS | RECENT EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED PRESS
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BIOGRAPHY
Nina Canell’s work, in general, deals with invisible energies made apparent. Inheriting core tenets from Fluxus, her work is situated somewhere between established, static sculpture and the performativity of natural events or occurrences. Her recent sculptures fragments or ‘cuttings’ from high voltage cables, which first emerged in her significant 2014 solo shows at Camden Arts Centre, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and formed the core of her presentation at Art Basel, Hong Kong, have been perfectly described in a recent text from a show at the Dutch institution, Witte de With:
“The work of Nina Canell attempts to activate an intersection between humans, objects and events whereby a certain kind of material imagination might be articulated. A method of loosely combining found or unrelated materials is central to her practice. Triggering situations, they encourage us to think of a place where something can be shared, altered or set off in an unexpected direction. Nina Canell meditates upon the loss of information and energy that occurs during processes of transference in her sculptural constellation of stumps and cross-sections of telecommunication and power cables, each becoming sentences cut-off mid-flow or instances of material forgetfulness.”
Canell’s solo exhibitions include Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (2016); Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2016); Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2015), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2014), Camden Arts Centre, London (2014), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2014), Lunds Konsthall, Sweden (2014), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (2012), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Vienna (2010). Her work has also featured in major international group exhibitions, including La vie Moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon; 18th Biennale, Sydney; La Triennale, Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; On Line, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool; Manifesta 7, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol; 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju. Canell’s work is held in major private and public collections worldwide and featured in monographs and publications.
Born Sweden, 1979, lives and works in Berlin.
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SELECTED WORKS
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RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Reflexology”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China, 2016
“Foam-Skin Insulated Jelly-Filled Vowel”, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany, 2016
“Shedding Sheaths”, Unlimited, Art 47 Basel, Switzerland, 2016
“Satin Ions”, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2015
“Brief Syllable (Flat)”, Rond-Point Projects, Marseille, France, 2015
“Dimensions Withheld”, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany, 2015
“Free-Space Path Loss”, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2014
“Mid-Sentence”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
“Near Here”, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014
“O Little Drops”, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland, 2013
“Stray Warmings”, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA, 2013
“Nina Canell & Rolf Julius”, Hamburg Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, 2012
“Tendrils”, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2012
“Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair”, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK, 2012
“Ode to Outer Ends”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2011
“Matter of the Heart / Heart of the Matter”, Konrad Fischer Galerie / Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany, 2011
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“We Are The Centre For Curatorial Studies (Phase 1)”, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2016
“Inflected Objects #2 Circulation – Otherwise, Unhinged”, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
, 2016
“A Thousand Horsepower”, Trinxet Factory, Barcelona, Spain
, 2016
“The Distance of a Day”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
, 2016
“Third Nature”, CCS Bard, New York, USA
, 2016
“The Mud of Compound Experience”, Mother’s Tankstation in collaboration with Leo Xu Projects, Hong Kong, China
, 2016
“Life Itself. On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics considering that the attempts to…”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
“Matter Fictions”, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
, 2016
“Die Kräfte hinter den Formen / The forces behind the forms”, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2016
“Accrochage”, Pinault, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
, 2016
“FluxesFeverFuturesFiction”, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain, 2016
“Accueille-moi paysage”, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France, 2016
“La Vie Moderne”, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2015
“All Our Relations”, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2012
“La Triennale – Intense Proximity” (curated by Okwui Envezor), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2012
“On Line: Drawing through the twentieth Century”, MoMA, New York, USA, 2010
“Touched”, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK, 2010
SELECTED PRESS
Artforum, “Nina Canell”, Text/Arthur Solway, P288, March 2017 [download pdf]
Lyon Biennale, “Nina Canell”, by Ralph Rugoff, September, 2015 [download pdf]
ArtAsiaPacific, “Satin Ions at Arko Art Centre”, by Jayoon Choi, May, 2015 [download pdf]
ArtReview, “Satin Ions at Arko Art Centre”, by Aimee Lin, May, 2015 [download pdf]
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite/Arko Art Centre, “Satin Ions”, by Hyunjin Kim, May, 2015 [download pdf]
Artforum, “Mid-Sentence at Moderna Museet”, by Neringa Cerniauskaite, March, 2015 [download pdf]
Sternberg Press and Midway Contemporary Art, “Crosstalk (conversation)”, by Dieter Roelstraete & Monika Szewczyk, May, 2014 [download pdf]
Artforum, “Critic’s Picks”, Kate Sutton, March, 2014 [download pdf]
Lunds Konsthall, “Free-Space Path Loss”, by Chris Sharp, 2014 [download pdf]
Mother’s Tankstation, “O Little Drops”, by Rebecca O’Dwyer, 2013 [download pdf]
AMC Collezione Coppola in Solo, “Every Distance Is Not Near”, by Fionn Meade, No.3, 2012 [download pdf]
Frieze Magazine, “Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair”, by Martin Herbert, May 1, 2012 [download pdf]
Cubitt Gallery, “Sistine”, by Steven Connor, March, 2012 [download pdf]
Monopol Magazine, “Unter Strom”, by Silke Hohmann, May, 2011 [download pdf]
Distanz Verlag, “Under Destruction”, by Piper Marshall, April, 2011 [download pdf]
Kaleidoscope, “Nina Canell”, by Leah Whitman-Salkin, 2010-11 [download pdf]
Phaidon, “Creamier”, by Adam Szymczyk, May, 2010 [download pdf]
Tate Liverpool, “Touched – Liverpool Biennial”, by Peter Gorschlueter, 2010 [download pdf]