Nina Canell once made a sculpture for ten people that caused the electricity in their homes to go out simultaneously and unannounced once every month for a year. The transfer and distribution of energy has been an integral preoccupation of her work since the beginning, often working with situations that are highly sensitive to spatio-temporal variables. Grounded as much in the chance encounter as in close study, her sculptural process foregrounds material agency.
Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, went to art school in Dublin, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo museum exhibitions in Switzerland, Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Sweden, France, Germany and England. Canell has taken part in the Venice, Cuenca, Sydney, Lyon, and Liverpool biennials, as well as group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the ICA, London; and Guggenheim, Bilbao among others. Nina Canell frequently collaborates with Robin Watkins on installations, artist’s books and publications.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Tectonic Tender, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Hardscapes, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin
2021 Nothing is Lost (The Meru Art Science Award), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
2019 Kunsthalle Baden Baden
2018 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
S.M.A.K (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art), Ghent
2017 The Artist’s Institute, New York City
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Le Crédac Contemporary Art Centre, Ivry-sur-Seine
Nordic Pavilion, 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2015 Arko Art Center, Seoul
13th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2014 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
Camden Arts Centre, London
2013 Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2012 Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (w. Rolf Julius), Berlin
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Cubitt Gallery, London
18th Biennale of Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2011 Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2010 Mumok (Museum Moderner Künst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna
6th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, UK
2009 Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2008 Manifesta 7 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino Südtirol Alto Adige, Italy
SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Irish Arts Council
Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm (National Collection, Sweden)
Permanent public sculpture, Royal National Library, Stockholm
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (National Collection, Germany)
LWL Landesmuseum, Münster
Kiasma, Helsinki
FNAC Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
FRAC Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain
Pinault Collection, Paris / Venice
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Mumok, Vienna
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Dallas Museum of Modern Art, Dallas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis