Nina Canell

Muscle Memory

06.07.–20.10.2019
A gallery with various objects mounted on short pedestals.
A minimalist room with a white box structure containing blue material and cables.
A 3D printer stands in an empty white room on a polished floor.
Several robotic devices with antennas are scattered across a large, empty room.
Robots on a white floor with cables and antennae are positioned strategically.
Multiple electronic measurement devices connected on a lab table.
Art installation with various objects on concrete pedestals in a minimalist gallery.
Exposed wires and a cable management module mounted on gray concrete pillars.
Assorted sculptures on concrete pedestals with varied materials in a gallery.
A sculpted hand with an extended thumb on a white surface.
A black, ancient-looking vessel lies on a bright floor, reflecting minimalistic light.
Sculptures of round objects mounted on different pedestals in a gallery.
This image features discarded, deformed black and pink shoes in a white room.
A close-up of a sculpture resembling part of the human digestive system with a mosaic on a wall.
Two crumpled socks lie on a white floor in the corner of a room.
A small, yellow amorphous object lies on a smooth, gray floor in an empty, white room.
A video projection of an animal head on a large, dark screen in a dimly lit room.
A close-up view of a snake lying on two illuminated electrical components.

Artist

  • Nina Canell

Curator

  • Hendrik Bündge

Swedish artist Nina Canell (*1979 in Växjö, Sweden) explores in her artistic work the mostly hidden processes that define our life today. Her practice does not revolve around the finished artwork but rather the transitional, surprising and inexhaustible processes of the matter it contains.

Nina Canell has employed a whole range of different materials – from the synthetic to the organic – in order to produce a distinctive sculptural language. Objects and energy correlate in a syntax of relations which breaks down visual hierarchies and densifies our world with process and agency. For Canell, there is no mediation that is lossless – an output is never the pure transmission of a source – but always as much the distance it has travelled and the things it has come in contact with.

Curated by Hendrik Bündge

Nina Canell (*1979 in Växjö, Sweden) studied in Dublin, Ireland. She lives and works in Berlin and often collaborates with Robin Watkins (*1980 in Stockholm, Sweden). She participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, ia. in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2017), at the Museo Tamayao, Mexico City (2017), at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2014), in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017). Most recently, her works have been exhibited in an international exhibition survey at the Center d'art contemporain d'Ivry - Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) Ghent, Belgium and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland.