Nanna Abell (DK)

Danish artist Nanna Abell works primarily with sculpture. Often she uses surprising juxtapositions of different materials, planting recognisable elements from everyday scenarios into contexts where they visibly do not belong. This allows her to both enhance the evident and concrete functions of any given object, at the same time as pointing to the untapped aesthetic potential and absurdities of the ways we sense and act. In this way, the artist highlights the essential ways we deal with the world.

Nanna Abell (b. 1985, Roskilde, Denmark) lives and works in Vordingborg, Denmark. She received her MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. Abell was awarded a grant from Nils Wessel Bagges Kunstfond in 2014. Recent exhibitions include: Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen; DK), Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (Videbæk; DK), Ringsted Galleriet (Ringsted; DK). Abell’s work is represented in the public collections of Horsens Kunstmuseum (Horsens; DK), New Carlsberg Foundation, and Copenhagen Municipality.