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”