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, and in 2019/2020 she studied at Fødselsterapeuten Aps Copenhagen, to become a certified birth therapist.
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). She is Chairperson at the Association for Danish Birth Photographers. Nanna Lysholt Hansen has exhibited her work internationally since 2000
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“Notes on the practice of performing text as artistic research”, Periskop Nr. 24 (2020): Unruly: Artistic Research between Disciplines and Becoming, Edited by Kathrine Dirckinck-Holmfred, Camilla Graff Junior, Lise Margrethe Jørgensen & Charlotte Hauch.
‘Performance and the Maternal’ , interview with Nanna Lysholt Hansen, 10 June 2020, by Dr Lena Šimić, https://performanceandthematernal.com/
‘Stemmernes politik i samtidskunsten’ by Stina Hasse Jørgensen in Terræn. Veje ind i samtidskunsten, edited by Camma Juel Jepsen, Rasmus Kjærboe, Sine Krogh og Martin Søberg, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2019, ISBN: 9788771248791
Omsorg og Skødesløshed Exhibition text by Pernille Zidore Nygaard in connection with Nanna Lyshold Hansen – Dura Mater, November 2018, IDOART.DK
New Tactics – moving into a soft field’ published by Galleri Image edited by Kirstine Autzen and Beate Cegielska interviews with Geoffrey Batchen, Valerie Collart, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Kristoffer Ørum.
“Det postfotografiske billede – når fotografi og krop flyder sammen”, By Kirstine Autzen and Nanna Freja Simonsen, Kunsten.nu interview, 6 September 2018 https://kunsten.nu/journal/det-postfotografiske-billede-naar-fotografi-og-krop-flyder-sammen/
The Antipodes of My Body Rob Churm, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Maria Meinild Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen 10.12.2017 - 27.01.2018 http://kopenhagen.dk/artguide/single/article/the-antipodes-of-my-body/
Tracing Double Other Nanna Lysholt Hansen Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmo 12.08.2017 - 09.09.2017 http://kopenhagen.dk/artguide/single/article/tracing-double-other/
‘Jeg tænker min krop som en skulptur’, Birgitte Kjær, Politiken, 23.08.2016
‘Ugens Kunstner – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’, Kit Vatit Jensen, Kunsten.nu 15 April 2015
‘Med kærlig indlevelse’, review by Rune Gade, 28.11.2014, Dagbladet Information
‘Dear Mary (Steel) – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’, review by Mette Garfield, Teater1 Magazine, # 170, April 2015
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Miss no 1,2,3 #2’, review by Mette Garfield in Teater1 Magazine, # 166, April 2014
‘En kvinde i strømpebukser kan også være en skulptur’, Katrine Jo Andersen, Politiken I Byen 31.05.2013
‘Afgang med orgeldrøn og sponsoreret rockwool’ , Kristian Handberg, www.kunsten.nu, 14.06.2011
https://kunsten.nu/journal/afgang-med-orgeldroen-og-sponseret-rockwool/