Nina Canell b. 1979 Berlin Summary - Nina Canell s body of work can be described as a kind of sculptural condition" that embodies both a state of stillness and of flux (as seen in natural phenomenon). Her works challenge traditional categories of sculpture using chemical and material interactions between mediums that measure the constant flux of their surroundings illustrating the invisible and immaterial world that remains unseen to the naked eye. Over the past couple of years, the artist has explored the role of fiber-optic cables in technology and the internet, exploiting the colorful exterior sheaths of recyclable cables collected from Lyon and the outskirts of Seoul to ruminate on the physicality of technology and its presence in our lives. While today's increasingly digitized environment aspires to adopt a state of wirelessness, fiber-optic cables are still required and are found buried across the world and at the bottom of the ocean. This conceptual tension underlies the antinomic relationship of technology a major leitmotif of the artist since her early works that featured a cross-section of the bulky fiber-optic cable as individual sculptures. Image copyright on Nina Canell (1st) Photo by Robin Watkins, provided by Kukje Gallery, Seoul. Courtesy of the artist, Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2nd) Installation view of Nina Canell, "Satin lon" at Arko Art Center, Seoul 2015. Courtesy of the artist. Education - 2005 BA (Hons), Fine Art (1st class), Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Solo Exhibitions - 2017 Dolphin Dandelion, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France Ayrton. Four exhibitions by Armando Andrade Tudela, Nina Canell, FOS and Tania Pérez Córodva, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 1 / 8
2016 Foam-Skin Insulated Jelly-Filled Vowel, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin Nina Canell: Reflexology, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai 2015 Satin Ions, Arko Art Center, Seoul Dimensions Withheld, Daniel Marzona, Berlin 2014 Free-Space Path Loss, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden Mid Sentence, Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Registry of Promise, Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France Near Here, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK Near Here, Camden Art Centre, London Near Here, Lulu, Mexico City Impulse Slight (permanent), Royal Library Stockholm, Stockholm 2013 Nina Canell Sofia Hultén (two person exhibition), Galerie Luisa Strina, São Paulo Stray warmings, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf O Little Drops, Mother s Tankstation, Dublin Stray warmings, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, USA 2012 Nina Canell & Rolf Julius, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Tendrils, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, USA Nina Canell: Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair, Cubitt Gallery, London 2011 Matter of the Heart, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin Heart of the Matter, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin 2 / 8
Ode to Outer Ends, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2010 Nina Canell: To Let Stay Projecting as a Bit of Branch on a Log by Not Chopping it Off, MUMOK, Vienna 2009 Nina Canell: We Sank Through to Our Waists (32760 Revolutions), Projects in Art & Theory, Cologne Five Kinds of Water, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg Art Statements, Art 40, Basel The New Mineral, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany Paradise [31], Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2008 Walking on No-Top Hill, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (collaboration w. Robin Watkins) Slight Heat of the Eyelid, Mother s Tankstation, Dublin 2007 Moon. Mist. Drum., Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland 2006 Soft Mud & Parallel Happenings, T293, Naples 2005 We Woke Up With Energy, Mother s Tankstation, Dublin Group Exhibitions - 2017 Gridded Currents, Kukje Gallery, Seoul 3 / 8
ARS17: Hello World! Art after the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki More Than Just Words [On the Poetic], Kunsthalle Wien, Wien Viva Arte Viva, Nordic Pavilion, 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice Transmissions from the Etherspace, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels Theatre of Measurement, Kunstverein Muenchen, Germany 2016 We Are The Center for Curatorial Studies (phase 1), Hessel Museum of Art, New York Samhällsmaskinen, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Inflected Objects #2: Circulation - Otherwise, Unhinged, Future Gallery, Berlin A Thousand Horsepower, Trinxet Factory, Barcelona Third Nature, CCS Bard, New York Matter Fictions, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon Die Kräfte hinter den Formen/The forces behind the forms, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany Die Kräfte hinter den Formen/The forces behind the forms, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland The Distance of a Day: Connections and Disconnections in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Accrochage, Pinault, Punta Della Dogana, Venice The Mud of Compound Experience, G/F, Hong Kong Farewell to an Idea, curated by Jaromir Hladík, Neue Berliner Räume, Berlin Life Itself. On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics considering that the attempts to, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Fluxesfeverfuturesfiction, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain Accueille-moi paysage, Marcelle Alix Gallery, Paris 2015 Drawn By Its Own Memory, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London Blühendes Gift. Zur Feministischen Appropriation des Österreichischen Unbewussten, Mumok, Vienna 4 / 8
La vie modern, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon Presque rien, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris Art In The Age Of Planetary Computation, Witte de With, Rotterdam Koeln Skulptur #7, Skulpturen Park Köln, Köln, Germany White Noise, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Sydney Le Souffleur, Schürmann trifft Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany Percussive Hunter, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul Art In The Age Of Energy and Raw Material, Witte de With, Rotterdam 2014 Animal Mineral Vegetable, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Technokinesis, Blum & Poe, New York Siehe was dich sieht, 21er Haus, Vienna nature after nature, Fridericianum, Kassel And How Are We Feeling Today?, San Diego University Art, San Diego Curiosity: Art & the Pleasures of Knowing, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam 2013 How To Write, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin The Stand In (or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles Surface Tension, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada Curiosity: Art & the Pleasures of Knowing, Hayward touring, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK Köln Skulptur 7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Köln Flex-Sil Reloaded, Kunsthalle St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 12 Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany 2012 Dorothea Von Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Les amas d Hercule, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France Sydney Biennale, Sydney 5 / 8
Made in Germany Zwei, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover Intense Proximity: La Triennale, Paris Atelier + Küche, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany The Devils Fidelity, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris 2011 Second Strike, Herzliya Biennial, The Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Based in Berlin, Monbijou Park, Berlin Twenty Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Labor / Laboratory, (Ars Viva Prize), SALT, Istanbul Under Destruction, Swiss Institute, New York 2010 On Line: Drawing through the twentieth Century, MoMA, New York Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool On Destuction, Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel Neue Alchemie, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Beyond Entropy: When Energy Becomes Form, La Biennale di Venezia 12th Intl. Architecture Exhibition, Venice A Never Ending Story, Truth or Consequences, NM, USA Fischgrätenmelkstand (curated by John Bock), Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin Runaway Train, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm Life: A User s Manual, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Das Wesen im Ding, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2009 The Knight s Tour, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands The Actuality of the Idea, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London 6 / 8
All That is Solid Melts into Air, MuHKA, Antwerp/Mechelen, Belgium Canell/Egan/Nowak, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf Coalesce Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Manifesta 7 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino Südtirol Alto Adige, Italy Auto Stop, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Sometimes You Fall in Love with an Idea, Cluster, Berlin Mima: Sound Space, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK No Borders (Just News), La Centrale Electrique - European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium, February + CACT - Centre of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2007 Beyond the Country: Perspectives of the Land in Historic and Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland Movement, Contingency & Community, Gallery27, Seoul What Remains, Spazio Lambretto, Milan Come Together, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2006 Bring the Noise, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK Plane, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin & The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, Ireland 2005 Precaution, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Grants & Awards - 2010 7 / 8
Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö Ars Viva - Preis 2010/2011, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Germany 2008 Baloise Prize, Statements Art 40 Basel Location One, residency stipend, New York (-2009) Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum Graz, project award Culture Ireland, project stipend 2007 Arts Council Ireland, Artist Bursary Award Model Arts & Niland Gallery Fellowship 2005 Aileen McKeogh Award Firestation Artists Studios Residency (-2008) 2004 Jönköping Cultural Committee Award 8 / 8