Nanna Abell Work Acquired by New Carlsberg Foundation

We are pleased to announce that the New Carlsberg Foundation has recently acquired the artwork "Lattice" by gallery artist Nanna Abell. The work was first shown at this year's CHART Art Fair 2024. Nanna Abell’s sculptural practice brings together over-, mis-, or unused objects, building assemblages of ready-made that change our perception of the objects or the spatial logic that surrounds them. Despite a highly outspoken physicality, Abell’s works often establish a framework where materiality doesn't concern only the physical qualities in themselves but also, and foremost, the poetry of human’s messy affairs with the physical outside world. Abell says: “I work with sculpture in an object-saturated landscape. My gaze is invested in found objects at a very close level; their surfaces and forms (already modelled by sun bleaching, overuse, affect, grave queues, booms, etc.). Here I try to awaken micro-perceptions that can escape value struggles and thrive in a more personal domain of desire and idiosyncrasy. The works thereby disrupt, also politically, the established semantic processes and can evoke, I hope, more nuanced possibilities in the viewer's sensual encounters with them”  

CHART 2024: Nanna Abell, Martin Erik Andersen & Richard Deacon

For CHART 2024, Galleri Susanne Ottesen presented works by three substantial sculptors: Danish artists Nanna Abell and Martin Erik Andersen, and British sculptor Richard Deacon. Though formally very different, the three artists share a distinctive approach to sculpture all with an acute attentiveness to the works' spatial context as well as the agency of the specific materials used, whether that being ornamented woven rugs, found objects or clay. Delve deeper into the work of Richard Deacon by visiting his current show Made of This at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, on view until 5 October 2024.

'The Substance of the World', a conversation between Nanna Abell and Milena Høgsberg, CHART Journal

As part of CHART Journal, Nanna Abell has been in conversation with Milena Høgsberg, curator, writer and Director at Wanås Konst, who together consider the intimate and fragile properties that underline the artist’s practice. They explore the erotic clashing of material sensibilities; the intimate entanglement between the digital and the offline; and environmental contamination as played out in bathing a child’s body. "Yet while I was installing this show [at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon], my daughter was in a state of euphoria embalming herself in sea foam at the coast just 30 minutes away. [S]ome time later, I learned that sea foam has the strongest concentration of fluorine substances (flourstoffer) and that one should avoid contact. Apparently the fluorine substances are very fond of foam and bubbles - and so is a little human body - this light fluffy tickling. So it's not only the visible contamination, there is also an invisible accumulation that makes touching the world so much more difficult suddenly. I sometimes think that our mental shores are equally endangered with heaps and fragments of waste of information with daily debris of images and language pouring in. I think part of my work is trying to make tiny clear bays around objects - just to “pollute” them again, with a different agenda. An agenda that doesn’t have to add up." 📖 Read the conversation in full via the CHART Journal. Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen

Nanna Abell & Pernille With Madsen, CHART Tivoli, 25 Aug - 27 Sep 2022

For CHART's 10^th celebratory edition they collaborated with the iconic amusement park Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. The project invites visitors to explore a series of new art installations by 15 artists situated throughout the park, including site-specific sculptures and video projections, thereby expanding the traditional art fair format and encouraging new audiences to engage with contemporary art. Gallery artists Nanna Abell and Pernille With Madsen contributed to the the exhibition. You can find their works in Tivoli from 25 August to 25 September 2022. You can read more about the project at CHART's website. Captured here: Nanna Abell, The truth of the world, 2022, intervention with grain in slot machine, dimensions variable. Photo: Jan Søndergaard.

Nanna Abell, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, 27 Aug - 25 Sep 2022

Just opened! Nanna Abell just opened her solo exhibition Phychodile at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillion. In Abell's solo exhibition Psychodile lies an invitation to become material. The found objects - although selected and arranged by the artist – have always already been modelled by external conditions, and their surfaces carry physical ornaments of climate, consumption, exhaustion, fire, moist, desire, décor. Rather than exhibiting single works, Abell establishes a framework where materiality doesn't concern only the physical qualities in themselves, but also and foremost the poetry of human, messy affairs with the physical outside world. For more information about the exhibition, click here. Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen

Nanna Abell work acquired by Horsens Art Museum

The gallery congratulates Nanna Abell, whose work titled woozy hoops (2021) has recently been acquired by Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, Denmark.  Abell's work had already been part of the permanent collection of the museum and now we are delighted to share this acquisition of a recent work by the artist. Woozy hoops will be exhibitied at Horsens Art Museum later this year. Click here to discover more about the artist's practice. Photo: Malle Madsen

Nanna Abell, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, 26 Nov 2021 - 6 Mar 2022

Be sure to visit the upcoming group exhibition THE LEGACY  - of Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, opening this Friday at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, where gallery artist Nanna Abell (b. 1985) is also participating. In the exhibition, a selection of contemporary artists examine the work of Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, one of the most important Danish sculptors, through their own practice. For more information, click here. Photo: David Stjernholm

Nanna Abell & Emil Westman Hertz, Arken, 4 Sept 2021 - 9 Jan 2022

Works by gallery artists Nanna Abell (b. 1985) and Emil Westman Hertz (1978-2016) are currently featured in the temporary group exhibition Flowers in Art at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj, Denmark. The exhibition, centering around floral representations in the art of a wide range of Danish and international artists, is on view until 9 January 2022. Pictured here, among others, is Nanna Abell´s sculpture Oxid infusion from 2021. Learn more about the exhibition by clicking here. Photo: David Stjernholm

Nanna Abell & Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Of Gardens, 14 Aug – 12 Sep 2021

Nanna Abell (b. 1985) and Marie Søndergaard Lolk (b. 1981) here featured in Of Gardens – an exhibition that takes place in the garden around the villa Regstruplund in Jyderup. In Of Gardens, they contribute with the work Idiosyncrasy Rhododendron vulgaris. The work is a part of an exhibition where the surroundings become affected by the meanings of the works, and where the viewer's attention is directed in equal parts to the work itself and the surroundings. The exhibition is running from 14 Aug - 12 Sep 2021. For more information about the exhibition, click here. Photo: Brian Kure.