ABOUT
Nanna Lysholt Hansen is an artist, writer, researcher and birth doula based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In her work she investigates relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Her artwork can be experienced as live performance or as the body manifests itself through hybrid technological forms, video, sculpture, sound and photography. Aspects of history, memory, gender, language and narratives are challenged in relation to the gaze on the body over time.
Nanna Lysholt Hansen holds a MFA degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Denmark (2011) and a BFA degree from Kingston University, Faculty of Art Design & Music, London, UK (2005). In 2009/2010 she studied at The Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, P.R. China
Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s artistic practice includes curating, collaboration and teaching. She is the founder of NLHspace an exhibition platform in Copenhagen (2006-2016) and Nammu Birth doula support & birth photography in Copenhagen (2020-current).
Nanna Lysholt Hansen has exhibited her work worldwide at venues such as Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, SMK – the National gallery of Denmark, CC – Copenhagen Contemporary, Museumsbygningen/Banja Rathnov Gallery, Vermilion Sands, Overgaden Contemporary Art Center, Tranen Contemporary Art Center and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, the Womens Museum, Denmark; Poor Farm Wisconsin, Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York and LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, L.A., USA; OPEN Realization Contemporary Arts Centre, I:project Space, Li-Space and Visual Space in Beijing. China; Gallerie Tanit, Beirut, Libanon, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France; Le Ganioz Project Space, Switzerland; Gold+Beton in Cologne, Germany
in 2020 with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, City of Copenhagen and the Beckett Foundation