Nina Canell

Nina Canell’s work foregrounds process and synergy, radically questioning material hierarchies and histories. Recognising sculpture as something that runs through and across bodies, Canell contests the understanding of things and materials as invariant, passive, and indifferent. Grounded as much in chance encounters as in close study, her work considers the shared capacity of all materials to transform and overlap beyond the spatio-temporal parameters of an exhibition.

Nina Canell
Stråken, 2005
DVD
3'16"
Edition 9 of 10

Survey

  • Brief Syllable (Floppy), 2017

    Subsea umbilical cable
    D. 14 cm, L. 55 cm

  • Gum Drag, 2017

    sculpture with mastic gum and steel
    Varying heights

  • Gum Drags and Brief Syllables, 2017

    sculptures with mastic gum and steel
    Varying heights
    ca. 210 cm, 180 cm, 120 cm, 65 cm

  • Stråken, 2005

    3’16”
    Edition of 10

Biography

Nina Canell (1979, Växjö, Sweden) studied in Dublin, and lives in Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include: The Artist’s Institute, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Mumok, Vienna; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Arko Art Center, Seoul; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen and OGR, Turin. Canell has participated in the Venice, Sydney, Gwangju, Lyon, Liverpool, Cuenca and Manifesta biennials, as well as in major exhibitions at MoMA, New York; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Canell frequently collaborates with Robin Watkins on installations and artist’s books.

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