Croy Nielsen (AT)

Oliver Croy and Henrikke Nielsen founded Croy Nielsen in Berlin in 2008. In 2017 they relocated to Vienna, where the gallery is situated in a historical building. The program includes several Nordic artists, who had their first gallery exhibitions at Croy Nielsen, such as Marie Lund, Nina Beier, Birke Gorm, and Sandra Mujinga.

Charlotte Johannesson (SE)

Charlotte Johannesson’s work presents a synthesis between the artisanal and the digital. Her practice involves working with both the craft technology of the loom and the digital technology of computer programming, exploring their formal and conceptual connections. Trained as a weaver, Johannesson began creating tapestries in the 1970s as art to address socio-political injustices. From her early experiments across textile and technology, Johannesson’s practice has developed to encompass various media including weaving, painting, digital print and digital slideshows Merging traditional weaving techniques with the experimental investigation of early computer technology, Johannesson continues to reinvent her practice to explore the possibilities for social and cultural change.

Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, Malmö, SE) lives and works in Skanör, Sweden. Recent solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (Fribourg; CH), Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham; UK) (both 2023); Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe; DE), Hollybush Gardens (London; UK) (both 2022); Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid; ES) (2021). Upcoming and recent group exhibitions include Marta Herford Museum (Herford; DE), MUDAM (Luxembourg City; LU) (all 2024); The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice; IT); Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö; SE) (all 2022); Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham; UK) (2021); Moderna Museet (Stockholm; SE) (2019); Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale (Venice; IT) (2017) and 32nd São Paulo Biennale, (São Paulo; BR) (2016).

Compute

Wool, digitally woven
2019

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Flag (Turquoise Brown)

Computer graphics plotted on paper
1981-1986

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Vote?

Computer graphics plotted on paper
1981-1986

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Brain cell

Wool, digitally woven
2019

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Revelation

Computer graphics plotted on paper
1981-1986

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Joseph Beuys (German artist, 1921-1986)

Computer graphics plotted on paper
1981-1986

Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

 

Charlotte Johannesson, Take Me To Another World, 2021, Installation view at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Courtesy of the artist, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, and Hollybush Gardens, London

Nina Beier (DK)

Contrasts and ruptures characterize Nina Beier’s work. She digs into cultural tropes to find things that are loaded with particularly problematic and layered stories, things that have undergone a transformation in terms of their intention, production, distribution, trading and use. Especially those objects that represent collapsed systems are unpacked by Beier, exposing the implicit economical and interpersonal power structures they perform. In doing so, she poses complex questions about the value and meaning of objects.

Nina Beier (b. 1975) lives in Copenhagen and Berlin. Solo exhibitions and commissions include The High Line, New York (2022); Spike Island, Bristol (2018) and Kunstverein Hamburg (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Lyon Biennial; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (both 2022); São Paulo Biennal, Brazil (2021); the Riga Biennial, Latvia (2020); and YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2018). She is represented by Croy Nielsen, Vienna and STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo.

Nest

Marble and stone eggs, spiral staircase, 800 cm x 200 cm
2021

Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Guardian

Marble lion and stone egg, 150 × 55 × 125 cm
2021

Photo by Jan Søndergaard

 

Plug

Ceramic sink and rolled cigar, 17 × 35 × 33 cm
2020

 

Peanuts

Human hair wig, feathers, 1 Hermès tie, synthetic insulation, nylon, 80.5 × 63 cm
2015

 

China

Ceramic vase and ceramic dog, dog: 71 × 53 × 30 cm, vase: 72 × 28 × 28 cm
2016