Nanna Debois Buhl (DK)
Nanna Debois Buhl is a visual artist whose practice draws connections across time periods and between micro and macro perspectives. Through studies spanning plants and particles, clouds, and computer memory she connects scientific, aesthetic, and speculative perspectives in order to nurture attentiveness to materials and to tell counter-histories. Her work materializes as photographs, weavings, installations, films, algorithm-based works, artist’s books, and site-specific works in public space. She has a conceptual and experimental approach to her chosen media, and by combining historical and new technologies she connects what is addressed in her works to how they are made. Her practice can thus be considered to be speculative time travel through matter and meaning.
Nanna is a Mads Øvlisen PhD fellow in artistic practice at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University, Denmark and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (2019-). She participated in The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, New York (2008-09) and received her MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2006). Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum, FL; SculptureCenter, NY; The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; El Museo del Barrio, NY; Bucharest Biennial 7, Romania; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; ARKEN Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark. Her work is in the collections of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Hasselblad Foundation and Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; ARKEN Museum of Modern Art; the National Museum of Photography; Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde and Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark. She has created several large-scale public works commissioned by Percent for Art, NY and The Danish Arts Council. Commissioned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, she has recently finished a large site-specific public work for the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, AUH.
