Biography: The artistic practice of Nanna Elvin Hansen (b. 1989, DK) moves in the murk between art and activism. Building audio and film projects via local, collaborative processes, her works unveil structural violence that impacts on human rights and displacement.
Contact: info@nannaelvin.dk
Education:
2018-2021: MFA,School of Media Arts, School of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Art Academy, prof. Angela Melitopoulos and Jane Jin Kaisen, exchange semesters at UDK, Berlin with prof. Hito Steyerl and at HFB, Hamburg
2015-2018: BFA, School of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Art Academy
2012-2015: BFA, Roskilde Universitet, Global Studies and International Development Studies
2013: Documentary film, Oure Højskole
Awards:
2023: Exhibition Awarding by the Danish Art Foundation for the exhibition Groundings at O_Overgaden
2022: Exhibition Awarding by the Danish Art Foundation for Voices in the Shadow of Monuments
2019: Winner of the Golden Key, best short for Cast Away Souls, Kasseler Dok Fest
2019: Winner of best experimental documentary for Cast Away Souls, Close:Up, Edinburg DocuFest
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2023: Whirl (Quadraphonic Sound Piece), Terraform/Agerrupgård, Samsø
2023: Groundings (multi-channel video/sound installation), solo exhibition at O_Overgaden
2023: Watery Bodies by Giemas (Live radio stream) with Eliza Bozek at the Lake Radio/O_Overgaden
2023: Moving Mountains (documentary) with Ase Brundborg Lie, CPH:DOX 2023
2022: Voices in the Shadow of Monuments (audio-visual walk) with Barly Tshibanda and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Copenhagen Light Festival and Charlottenborg Kunsthal
2021: Radio for Metafysiske Fællesskaber (online radio/sound performance) with Arash Pandi, Teater Momentum Vol. 15
2021: Europe’s Eyes on the Skin of the Earth (video installation) at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Graduation Show
2021: School of Re-Membering (Installation/conversation piece), with co-students from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg, Graduation Show
2019: Cast Away Souls (Documentary) with Edward Stanley, Markus Fiedler and Thomas Elsted. Screenings at Louisiana, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, CPH:DOX, Charlottenborg), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Kasseler Dokfest, etc.
2019: Daughters (Short documentary), Opgør at Chart Art Fair
2019: Our Movements are Loud (Radio play installation) with the Bridge Radio Collective, exhibition at Choreography of the Social by Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm
2019: Staying With the Trouble* - Looking for Decolonial Strategies of Working Together Across Privileges (Publication 2018) with Kipanga Typeson, Barly Tshiba and Nanna Dahler, released at Astrid Noacks Atelier 30.11.2019 and presented at Alt_Cph (2020)
2018: The Economy of Migrant Labour - for the Right to Work (Sound Installation) by the Bridge Radio Collective, solo exhibition at CAMP (Center for Art on Migration Politics), 19.01-19.05.2018
2017: Staying With the Trouble - of Working Together (Video Installation), The Others Art Fair in Torino curated by SixtyEight Art institute, Astrid Noacks and InstantHERLEV institute 1.-4.11.2018, Astrid Noacks Atelier 22.-25.03.2018 and Rundgang at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi
2016: Room 205 (Documentary), CAMP and Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) curated by Kuratorisk Aktion
Residencies and Mentorship Programs:
2023: Terraform and Sound Art Lab Struer, I Knud Viktors Fodspor, Samsø/Struer
2023: Pikene på Broen, residency program, Kirkenes, Norway
2022: Velferden, Sokndal Scene for Samtidskunst, Sokndal, Norway
2021-2022: Enhanced Practice, Institute for Artistic Research, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2019: Lause Art and Activism residency with Monia Haj-Mohamed Sanser, Berlin, Germany
2018: Residency for Artist, Theorists and Activists, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany
Biography: The artistic practice of Nanna Elvin Hansen (b. 1989, DK) moves in the murk between art and activism. Building audio and film projects via local, collaborative processes, her works unveil structural violence that impacts on human rights and displacement.
Contact: info@nannaelvin.dk
Education:
2018-2021: MFA,School of Media Arts, School of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Art Academy, prof. Angela Melitopoulos and Jane Jin Kaisen, exchange semesters at UDK, Berlin with prof. Hito Steyerl and at HFB, Hamburg
2015-2018: BFA, School of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Art Academy
2012-2015: BFA, Roskilde Universitet, Global Studies and International Development Studies
2013: Documentary film, Oure Højskole
Awards:
2023: Exhibition Awarding by the Danish Art Foundation for the exhibition Groundings at O_Overgaden
2022: Exhibition Awarding by the Danish Art Foundation for Voices in the Shadow of Monuments
2019: Winner of the Golden Key, best short for Cast Away Souls, Kasseler Dok Fest
2019: Winner of best experimental documentary for Cast Away Souls, Close:Up, Edinburg DocuFest
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2023: Whirl (Quadraphonic Sound Piece), Terraform/Agerrupgård, Samsø
2023: Groundings (multi-channel video/sound installation), solo exhibition at O_Overgaden
2023: Watery Bodies by Giemas (Live radio stream) with Eliza Bozek at the Lake Radio/O_Overgaden
2023: Moving Mountains (documentary) with Ase Brundborg Lie, CPH:DOX 2023
2022: Voices in the Shadow of Monuments (audio-visual walk) with Barly Tshibanda and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Copenhagen Light Festival and Charlottenborg Kunsthal
2021: Radio for Metafysiske Fællesskaber (online radio/sound performance) with Arash Pandi, Teater Momentum Vol. 15
2021: Europe’s Eyes on the Skin of the Earth (video installation) at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Graduation Show
2021: School of Re-Membering (Installation/conversation piece), with co-students from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg, Graduation Show
2019: Cast Away Souls (Documentary) with Edward Stanley, Markus Fiedler and Thomas Elsted. Screenings at Louisiana, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, CPH:DOX, Charlottenborg), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Kasseler Dokfest, etc.
2019: Daughters (Short documentary), Opgør at Chart Art Fair
2019: Our Movements are Loud (Radio play installation) with the Bridge Radio Collective, exhibition at Choreography of the Social by Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm
2019: Staying With the Trouble* - Looking for Decolonial Strategies of Working Together Across Privileges (Publication 2018) with Kipanga Typeson, Barly Tshiba and Nanna Dahler, released at Astrid Noacks Atelier 30.11.2019 and presented at Alt_Cph (2020)
2018: The Economy of Migrant Labour - for the Right to Work (Sound Installation) by the Bridge Radio Collective, solo exhibition at CAMP (Center for Art on Migration Politics), 19.01-19.05.2018
2017: Staying With the Trouble - of Working Together (Video Installation), The Others Art Fair in Torino curated by SixtyEight Art institute, Astrid Noacks and InstantHERLEV institute 1.-4.11.2018, Astrid Noacks Atelier 22.-25.03.2018 and Rundgang at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi
2016: Room 205 (Documentary), CAMP and Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) curated by Kuratorisk Aktion
Residencies and Mentorship Programs:
2023: Terraform and Sound Art Lab Struer, I Knud Viktors Fodspor, Samsø/Struer
2023: Pikene på Broen, residency program, Kirkenes, Norway
2022: Velferden, Sokndal Scene for Samtidskunst, Sokndal, Norway
2021-2022: Enhanced Practice, Institute for Artistic Research, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2019: Lause Art and Activism residency with Monia Haj-Mohamed Sanser, Berlin, Germany
2018: Residency for Artist, Theorists and Activists, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany