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.