Nina
Canell
Nina
Canell
Canell
Swedish, born in 1979
At the edge of visual arts and scientific experiments, the installations and sculptures of Nina Canell bear witness to her pronounced interest in the processes of transformation. By favouring the dynamic relations between materials of various natures – wood, soil, copper, stone, water, electricity, chewing-gum, air –, she gives a poetic body to the immaterial.
The displacement of energy has always been an integral part of Canell’s work from the start. Her sculptures, crossed by electric arcs or sources of heat, are the subject of delicate and ephemeral physical reactions that highlight our relationship to the immediate environment, whilst revealing what is generally located outside our understanding.
Retrospectives dedicated to Nina Canell have been held at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet (2014-2015), at London’s Camden Arts Centre (2014) and at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (2012-2013). Her work was first shown by the Pinault Collection at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
The displacement of energy has always been an integral part of Canell’s work from the start. Her sculptures, crossed by electric arcs or sources of heat, are the subject of delicate and ephemeral physical reactions that highlight our relationship to the immediate environment, whilst revealing what is generally located outside our understanding.
Retrospectives dedicated to Nina Canell have been held at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet (2014-2015), at London’s Camden Arts Centre (2014) and at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (2012-2013). Her work was first shown by the Pinault Collection at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
