Nina Canell is a Swedish artist. Her sculptures foreground process and synergy, radically questioning material hierarchies and histories. Canell’s work is variable, durational, and open-ended. 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. She 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. She has had solo exhibitions at The Artist’s Institute, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Mumok, Vienna; Arko Art Center, Seoul; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen. Canell is currently professor of sculpture at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She frequently collaborates with Robin Watkins on installations and artist’s books.
