Nanna Lysholt Hansen, b.1980, Holstebro, DK
lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Education
2020: Doula/Birth Therapist, Fødselsterapeuten ApS, Copenhagen
2006-2011: MFA Master of Fine Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010-2011: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Department of Time Based Media w/ Prof. Gerard Byrne
2009-2010: Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, P.R. China, Department of Experimental Art w/ Prof. Lu Shengzhong
2008-2009: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Department of Sculpture w/ Prof. Katya Sander
2007-2008: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Department of Sculpture w/ Prof. Henrik B. Andersen
2002-2005: BFA Bachelor of Fine Art, Faculty of Art & Design & Music, Kingston University London
Solo exhibitions/events
2024:
Dura Mater, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
2023:
Mother Mould part II, solo exhibition and live performance Kore, standing, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen
2022:
2021:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Anatomy of the Chthulucene, live performance, Copenhagen Art Week, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Hand of Inanna, f.eks/Utzon Center, Aalborg, DK
2020:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Mother Mould, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #10, performance in connection with the exhibition Overgange//TRANSITIONS, THE Women’s Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Sen_sing_inannainanna, performance in public bus between Copenhagen Contemporary and Glyptoteket in connection with Art Week Copenhagen
2018:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dura Mater, M100, Odense, Denmark
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #8, live performance, SMK Fridays: Kunst og menneskerettigheder, The national gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene #6, live performance, meter Artspace, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – The Matrix, live performance, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), live performance, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg
Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), live performance, guest in Lise Haller Baggesen Ross’ installation Mothernizing Ana, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Tracing Double Other, solo show and live performance, Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmo, Sweden
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dura Mater, Banja Rathnov Galleri & Kunsthandel, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), duo show (with Søren Hüttel) and live performance, Curatron C/o The Factory of Art & Design, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter, On The Go, digital exhibition platform by Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (w/Braidotti, Plant et aliae) #12, live performance, Piscine c/o Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, DK
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (w/Braidotti, Plant et aliae) #11, live performance, Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2015:
Nanna Lyholt Hansen – I Am Myself a Magician Who Last Fall Seduced a Machine, live performance, NLHspace, Copenhagen
Nanna Lyholt Hansen – ROD CELL VISION, solo exhibition, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2014:
Nanna Lyholt Hansen – Dear Mary (Steel), soloshow and live performance, curated by Agnete Bertram, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter, soloshow and live performance, curated by Christina Jonsson, Saint-Valentin Epace d’Arts, Lausanne
Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Vase #2, Torpedo 18
2013:
Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories, live performance, Tower Sessions, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
2010:
Black Curtain (with Suada Demirovic’ at Kopenhagen Contemporary Art Weekend), NLHspace, Copenhagen
Black Curtain, Visual Space, 798 Art District, Beijing
2009:
Blinds, plates, jacket, Exhibition Space Q, Copenhagen
2007:
Gestures and Memory, The Danish Institute at Athens, Athens
2005:
Can, shoes, speaker, Ash in Art, Athens, Greece
2001:
Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Paintings, La Porte Bleue, Marseilles
Group exhibitions and events, selected
2022:
Welcome to the Womb – Tabita Rezaire, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Anna Aagaard Jensen, Sahar Jamili Group show curated by Ida Schyum, Gloria Foyer, Roskilde Festival 2022
At være til – Dea Trier Mørch, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Masar Sohail, Kinga Bartis, Vandrehallen Kunsthal, Hillerød, DK
2021:
m/other, group show curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Center for Art and mental Health, Copenhagen
Transitions #2, group show curated by Sophie Hjerl and Julie Rokkjær Birch, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Work in Process, Haut, Copenhagen
2019:
Copenhagen Creatives, group show, Gallerie Tanit, Beirut, Libanon
Overgange // Transitions, group show curated by Sophie Hjerl and Julie Rokkjær Birch
10 May – 29 September 2019 , Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, DK
Dura Mater #402 part of Solidaritetssalon TALETID
6 April – 23 Juni 2019 Rønnebæksholm, DK
“Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories” part of Balancing Actions: video screening curated by Myrel S. Chernick & Niku Kashef, 13-16 February 2019, 107th CCA Annual Conference, NYC, US
2018:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Talks: It Matters What Thoughts Think Thoughts – On Donna Haraway, 6.12.2018, 5-7 PM Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK
Real Estate, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark
Heksen er en mor, Poesiens Hus, Copenhagen, DK
Copenhagen Creatives, Maison du Danemark, Paris
New Tactics – Moving into a soft field, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
RESPONSE, I:Project Artspace, Beijing, China
Shaking the Habitual, meter Artspace, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017:
The Antipodes of My Body – Rob Schurm, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Maria Meinild, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen
Poor & Needy, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive, Denmark
Mothernizing ANA, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen
KN 1-15, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark
Boobs – Semiology of the Breast, TAF – The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
100 kvinder på Kro / 100 Women Down the Pub, Carlsbergbyens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen
Copenhagen Photo Festival 2017, Photo City Film Programme, Østre Gasværk, Copenhagen
The Anthropocene Laboratory, På Kanten, Den Norske Filosofi Festival, Kragerø Kunstforening, Norway
2016:
Young Danish Photography ´16, curated by Kristine Kern & Banja Rathnov, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Photo Collect Copenhagen ’16, Banja Rathnov Galleri & Kunsthandel, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Poor & Needy, curated by Yvette Brackmann & Lise Haller Baggesen, Poor Farm, Wisconsin, USA
Guest Stars – Nanna Lysholt Hansen & Esme Chapman Jones, NLHspace, Copenhagen, Denmark
Intime.Extime, curated by Christina Jonsson, Le Ganioz Project Space, Switzerland
Femmes Video Art Festival, curated by Micol Hebron, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, L.A. USA
2015:
WANDERERS – Camille Cros, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Yu Araki, Snehta, Athens
KULSTOF 15, Performance festival, Kunsthal Nord/Nordkraft, Aalborg, Denmark
To Be Continued, Skovsnogen Artspace, Skarrild, Denmark
100 Kvinder på Kro, curated by Melou Vangsgaard, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro / Byens Kro, Copenhagen
Det Kameraløse Fotografi, curated by Kristine Kern, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
The Fight Club, curated by Jacob Jessen, Toves, Copenhagen
2014:
Artist Books, Nivaagaards Malerisamling / Svends Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Crossing the Line, Bristol Biennial 2014, Bristol
Contingency of the Now #1, Performance event curated by Rie Hovmann Rasmussen, NLHspace, Copenhagen
Fokus 14 / New Danish Video Art, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
Body Screeners, exhibition and performance event, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2013:
Show & Tell – Performance event curated by Judith Schwarzbart and Sanne Krogh Groth, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Ghost & Alter Egos – Performance event curated by Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, itenerant_sends_for_itenerant Studio, Copenhagen, https://cargocollective.com/itinerant_sends_for_itinerant
Territory – Video screening curated by Jeanette Land Schou & Sophie Hjerl, Skånes Kunstforening, Malmo
Danish Dawn – Video screening curated by Lena Ditte Nissen, Gold + Beton, Cologne
Victor, A, Judge William, Johannes (de silentio), Constantin, Vigilius, Nicolaus, Hilarius, Johannes (Climacus), H.H., Anti-Climacus et. al, curated by Gerard Byrne, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen Denmark
Sculpture by the Sea 2013, Sculpture Biennial curated by Henrik B. Andersen, Axel Arnott, Marie Nipper, Michael Hill, Jesper Rasmussen, Aarhus
Fokus13 / Sidste År er Længe Siden, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
2012:
Territory – Video screening curated by Jeanette Land Schou & Sophie Hjerl, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Terrain Video – Territorium, curated by Jeanette Land Schou & Sophie Hjerl, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro
First Ever First Friday, curated by Iben Elmstrøm & Christopher Sand Iversen, 68 Square Metres Art Space, Copenhagen
Many Mini Residencies, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen
2011:
Hovedværker – Old Works by three Mistresses, NLHspace, Copenhagen
When All You Got Is Given, curated by Iben Elmstrøm & Christopher Sand Iversen, 68 Square Metres Art Space, Copenhagen
Anstrøg II, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
AFGANG 2011, MFA Degree Show, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
Fokus11 / Nominated, Open Call, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
BYOB, The Factory for Art & Design, Copenhagen
We are Grammar, curated by Dave Beech and Paul O’Neill, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
2010:
Open Night, video screening, Arken Contemporary Art Museum, Copenhagen
One Lens At One Eye, BKS Garage, Copenhagen (Co-curated with Anu Ramdas)
Anstrøg – Unge Kunstnere på Spring, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
Transitstation 4th International Live Art Festival, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen
Forårsudstillingen 2010, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
0 Time Zone, Visual Space, 798 Art District, Beijing
Tong, Zhu Lou Art Space, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
2009:
From 5.8 M, curated by Gu Zhenqing, Li-Space, Caochangdi Art District, Beijing
SPARK – Yan Lei & Hong Hao’, Chambers Fine Art, Caochangdi Art District, Beijing
NOtCH 09 ID-ENTITY, Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou
The 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, week 6 curated by Jane Jin Kaisen, OPEN Realization Contemporary Art Centre, 798 Art District, Beijing
Forårsudstillingen 2009, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
PERFORMATIVITY, 16th edition of Netfilmmakers curated by Jeannette Land Schou, www.netfilmmakers.dk
Looking for love, Moderna Museet (Studion), Stockholm
2008:
Forårsudstillingen 2008, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2007:
Crosskick Autolabor, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam
Forårsudstillingen 2007, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
2006:
2nd Athens Video Art Festival, East West Art Centre, Athens
Transitstation 3rd International Live Art Festival, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh
2005:
Degree Show BFA, Faculty of Art & Design & Music, Kingston University London
Kingston Contemporary Open 2005, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Transitstation 2nd International Live Art Festival, Gebauer Hofe, Berlin
2004:
In Situ, Central Space Gallery, London
In Situ, Pontevedra Art School, Pontevedra
Grottos video screening, Candid Projection Rooms, London
2003:
Transitstation 1st International Live Art Festival, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
5 minutes to go, Prenelle Gallery, London
Grants and Residencies
2023: Copenhagen City Arts Council, exhibition grant, exhibition at Astrid Noack’s Atelier
2023: Copenhagen City Arts Council, exhibition grant, exhibition at Collega
2023: Sven Hols’ Legat (Akademiraadet)
2023: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, performance, workshop, exhibition at Astrid Noack’s Atelier
2023: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, performance, workshop, exhibition at Collega
2023: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, performances at PERFORMANCErum & bastard
2022: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, performance and exhibition, Roskilde Festival
2022: The Danish Art Foundation, research grant 2022
2021: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, exhibition, Vandrehallen
2021: Henry Heerup Honory Grant
2021: The Danish Art Foundation, research grant 2021
2121: Danske Billedkunstneres Fagforening, research grant
2021: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Nammu – Mor er en anden
2020: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Transitions, Rundetaarn
2020: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Hand of Inanna, F.eks, Aalborg
2020: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Mother Mould, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen
2020: Copenhagen City Arts Council, exhibition grant, Mother Mould, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen
2019: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Copenhagen Creatives, Gallerie Tanit, Beirut, Libanon
2019: The Danish Arts Council, Research Grant 2019
2019: Kulturudviklingspuljen City of Aarhus, production grant, Transitions, Women’s Museum Denmark
2019: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Transitions, Women’s Museum Denmark
2018: Akademiraadets Præmiefond, honor grant
2018: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Dura Mater, M100, Odense
2018: The Danish Art Foundation, production grant, Maison du Danemark, Paris
2018: Beckett-fonden, Dura Mater – Arachnoid Mater – Pia Mater, exhibition and book project
2018: Kunstrådet Aarhus, Dura Mater/Kore, Galleri Image, Aarhus
2018: Copenhagen City Arts Council, exhibition grant, Dear Daughter, meter artspace, Copenhagen
2018: Artist Residency, I:Project, Project, Beijing, China
2017: The Danish Arts Council exhibition grant, I:Project, Beijing, China
2017: The Danish Arts Council production grant, The Chthonic Ones, Vermillion Sands
2017: The Danish Arts Council production grant, KN4, Kunsthal Nord
2017: The Danish Arts Council production grant, Tracing Double Other, Galleri Vasli Souza
2017: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, Tracing Double Other, Galleri Vasli Souza
2017: Hulda Pedersens Legat, Tracing Double Other, Galleri Vasli Souza
2017: The Danish Arts Council, research grant 2017
2016: The Danish Arts Council, Dear Daughter, performance, Piscine
2016: The Danish Arts Council, Guest Stars
2016: Copenhagen City Arts Council, Guest Stars
2016: The Danish Arts Council, research grant 2016
2016: The Danish Arts Council, seminar and exhibition Poor & Needy, Poor Farm, Wisconsin, U.S.
2015 : MAISON MACA, residency, Athens https://macamaison.wordpress.com/
2015: Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece, http://www.snehtaresidency.org/
2015: The Danish Arts Council, publication grant, Dear Mary (Memories of the Future) Logbook, published by Fotografisk Centers Forlag
2015: Ragnvald og Ida Blix Fond, production grant, Dear Mary (Tracing Double Other)
2015: Copenhagen City Arts Council, production grant, ROD CELL VISION
2015: The Danish Art Workshops, studio residency, Copenhagen, http://svfk.dk, I am a Chamber
2014: Akademiraadets Rejsefond
2014: The Danish Arts Council, Dear Mary (Steel), Solo Exhibition at Ringsted Gallery, Ringsted
2014: The Danish Arts Council, Dear Daughter, Solo Exhibition at Saint-Valentin Espace d’Arts, Lausanne
2014: The Danish Arts Council, Temporary Sculptures for Beijing Apartments at Bristol Biennial
2014: Vesterbro Lokaludvalg, Miss no. 1,2,3 Live #2 at Body Screeners, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2013: The Danish Arts Council, Untitled (100 Years x multiple Voices) + Untitled (6 Weeks x 4 Steel Plates) at Victor, A, Judge William et. al, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
2013: The Aarhus City Arts Council, production grant, Dear Mary (Memories of the Future)
2013: The Danish Art Workshops, production studio space, Copenhagen, http://svfk.dk, Dear Mary (Memories of the Future)
2012: The Danish Arts Foundation, Masterclass w/ Prof. Ann Lislegaard
2012: Else Marie Bukdahls hæderslegat, travel grant
2012: The Danish Arts Foundation, travel grant
2012: Wysing Arts Centre, live/work studio, Bourn, Cambridge, UK
2012: Knud Højgaards Fond
2011: Ragnvald og Ida Blix Fond
2011: Dato B. Bek-Nielsens Almennyttige Fond
2010: Fr. Gerda Jensens Kunsterlegat, travel grant, Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2009: Ragnvald og Ida Blix Fond, travel and study grant, Beijing, P.R. China
2009: JL-Fondet, travel and study grant, Beijing, P.R. China
2006: The Danish Institute at Athens, artist in residency, 3 months stay with stipend, Athens, Greece
Teaching, curating, collaborations
2023: BODY MOVER WITNESS, performance workshop, The National Film Actors Academy of Denmark, Copenhagen
2022: BODY MOVER WITNESS, performance workshop, BGK ArtLab, Elsingore, DK
2022: Nammu Birth Performance, Workshops and individual coaching in mind/body/voice/space awareness, Nammu Birth, Copenhagen
2021: Arachnoid Mater/Kroppen som Lærred, family workshop, Copenhagen Art Week, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen
2021: Voice of Nammu, performance workshop, F.eks/Utzon Center, Aalborg, DK
2021: Guest lecturer at the workshop “voice, figuration, affect, and collective listening” with Stina Hasse and Jane Jin Kaisen, The School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, 2021
2019: Pinhole photography workshop, Billedskolen Skarn, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
2018: Jury member, Schadeprisen, honor grant for artist working in the cross-field of visual art and literature
2006-2016: Founding Director of the exhibition space NLHspace / Member of the artist/curator collective The Organisation
2014: Co-curator (with Stathis Tsemberlidis) Body Screeners, NLHspace, Denmark
2013: External Censor/ BFA and MFA Admission Examiner, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen
2013: Pinhole Photography Workshop, Børnekulturhuset, Aarhus
2012: BGK Performance Art Workshop, BGK ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2012: Melting Figure Performance Workshop, NLHspace, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011-2015 Founding member of the artist-curator collective at the exhibition platform NLHspace, Copenhagen
2006-2011: Artist Consultancy, NLHspace
2010: Performance Art Workshop, Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010: Teaching Assistant, Digital Aesthetics, IT University, Copenhagen
2010: Studio Visits, Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Sculpture Department, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010: Co-curator (with Anu Ramdas) One Lens At One Eye, BKS Garage, Copenhagen
2009: Admission Examiner, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen
2009: Member of the Student Board, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen
2009: Curator and Exhibition Organizer, Et Andet Rum, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2008: Curator and Organizer of Video Screening Det Andet Rum, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2008: Curator and Exhibition Organizer, Hele Rum, NLHspace, Copenhagen
2006-2011: Founding Director of the exhibition space NLHspace, Copenhagen
2002: Painting Teaching Assistant, Kunsthøjskolen, Holbœk, Denmark
2000-2001: Member of the artist collective Sans Lieu d’Activité Artistique Fixe, Marseilles, France
1999: Painting Workshop, Billedskolen for Børn, Skjern, Denmark
Lectures, artist talks, public presentations
2021: “Sen_sing_Inannainanna”, conversation with Scott William Raby, F.eks. C/o Utzon Center, Aalborg
2021: ‘Matrixial Tongues’, performance presentation at the launch of Periskop Journal issue No. 24: Unruly: Artistic Research between Disciplines and Becoming
2020: ‘Cyborg Mother Voices: The body, the voice, memory and playback technologies’, Kunsthøjskolen, Holbæk
2019: ‘Dear Mary – Dear Daughter’, artist talk, KBH Film & Fotoskole, Copenhagen
2018: ‘Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene’, it matters what thoughts think thoughts – On Donna Haraway, Charlottenborg Art Talks, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2017: Performance at The Mothernists II: Who Cares for the 21st Century?, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art & Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen
2016: ‘To place one’s body in someone else’s body of work’, Copenhagen Photo Festival Seminar: Tendencies in Contemporary Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
2013: ‘Chair, couch, drawers’ Fokus 13, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012: Nanna Lysholt-Hansen 2004-2011, BGK ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2012: ‘Temporary Sculptures and other bodily interventions’, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011: ‘Wardrobe, Door, Corridor’, FOKUS Video Art Festival, Kvarterhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: ‘Nanna Lysholt-Hansen 2003-2009’, Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Lithuania
2010: ‘Re-Collected 2003-2009’, Transitstation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: ‘Re-Collected 2003-2009’, The 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, 798 Art District, Beijing, P.R. China
2009: ‘Stone’, Launching of Netfilmmakers’ 16ht Edition, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009: ‘Nanna Lysholt-Hansen 2003-2009’, Bjørn Ignatius Øckenholt’s Frederiksberske Billedkunstskole, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bibliography, publications, selected articles / reviews
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care’ audio essay in SOUNDING FEMALE WORK: GENDER, TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN NORDIC SOUND ART AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, Seismograf, February 2022
“On Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s Dear Daughter” in Maternal Performance. Feminist Relations´´ , co-authored by Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-80225-7
Interview with Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Performance and the Maternal
10 June 2020, Zoom, Interview conducted by Lena Šimić
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Matrixial Tongues: Notes on the practice of performing text as artistic research’, in-print-based performance and article contribution to Periskop – Journal for Art Historical Debate, Periskop no. 24. UNRULY: ARTISTIC RESEARCH BETWEEN DISCIPLINES AND BECOMING, December 2020
‘Vocalizing Dystopian and Utopian Impulses’ by Stina Hasse Jørgensen in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art, edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2020
‘Performance afspejler vores behov for intense relationer’, article by Mathilde Rude, Børsen ATELIER, June 2019
‘New Tactics – moving into a soft field’, edited by Kirstine Autzen and Beate Cegielska interview with Geoffrey Batchen, Valerie Collart, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Kristoffer Ørum, Sandra Vaka Olsen, published by Galleri Image, 2019, ISBN: 978-87970103-0-3
‘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
http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/response-iproject-space-beijing/
’Kalder alle fremtidens døtre’ review of live performance Dear daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene, Ida Marie Hede, Dagbladet Information, 24.5.2018
https://www.information.dk/kultur/anmeldelse/2018/05/nanna-lysholt-hansen-kalder-fremtidens-doetre
Shaking the habitual: What is your utopia? meter artspace, Copenhagen
http://kopenhagen.dk/artguide/single/article/shaking-the-habitual-what-is-your-utopia/
‘Udstilling genfortryller forestillingen om en verden uden diskrimination’ review by Ida Marie Hede, Dagbladet Information, 13 Marts 2018 https://www.information.dk/kultur/anmeldelse/2018/03/udstilling-genfortryller-forestillingen-verden-uden-diskrimination
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen- Tracing Double Other, Kopenhagen Art Guide, August 2017, http://kopenhagen.dk/artguide/single/article/tracing-double-other/
Nanna Lysholt Hansen: Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway), Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (W/ Braidotti, Plant et aliae), Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene (O’Connell Oh Oh Haraway), published by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology in connection with the exhibition The Anthropocene Laboratory, 2017, ISBN 978-87-999834-2-1 http://www.labae.org/publications/dear-daughter
Eighty-nine Prayers (Mother) – Nanna Lysholt Hansen, ΑΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ – I andledning af Det Danske Institut i Athens 25-års jubilæum, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2017
‘TO BE ONE IS ALWAYS TO BECOME WITH MANY’, essay by Callum Ross, idoart.dk, January 2017, https://www.idoart.dk/blog/to-be-one-is-always-to-become-with-many,
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene’ review by Mette Garfield, Teater1 Magazine, December 2016, http://www.teater1.dk/dear-daughteranatomy-of-the-chthukucene/
‘Jeg tænker min krop som en skulptur’, Birgitte Kjær, Politiken, 23.08.2016, http://politiken.dk/ibyen/udstilling/article5633322.ece
‘Scripted!! – 12 performances on paper’ ed. Mathias Kryger, Trine Mee sook Gleerup, Maria Bordorff, published by Eller med a, 2016
‘Hospitality in Art and Politics’ – ed. Mikkel Bolt, Peter Borum, Else Marie Bukdahl, Ettore Rocca, published by Forlaget Basilisk, ISBN 978-87-93077-20-1, 2016
‘Kunståret 2015’ By Maria Kjær Themsen, Kunstkritikk, 4. december 2015, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/artikler/4-december-maria-kjaer-themsen/
‘Lydkunst #10: Cyborg – Nanna Lysholt Hansen på Kulstof 15, article and podcast on sound art by Line Møller Lauritsen & Anne Neimann Clement, Kunsten.nu 11.11.2015: – http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?lydkunst+10+nanna+lysholt+hansen+nordkraft+15
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen-Dear Mary, review by Kathrine Børlit in Kopenhagen Magasin, 16.10.2015 http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/nanna-lysholt-hansen-dear-mary/
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Mary (Memories of the Future) Logbook, published by Forlaget Fotografisk Center, 2015, isbn 978-87-90362-61-4
‘Ugens Kunstner – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’, Kit Vatit Jensen, Kunsten.nu 15 April 2015 http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?nanna+lysholt+hansen+fotografisk+center+ugens+kunstner+det+kameraloese+fotografi
‘Tak for en dårlig kunstoplevelse’, Carl Martin Faurby, Kunsten.nu 04.05.15 http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?klumme+carl+martin+faurby+deltagerisme+feeling+rules
‘Det Kameraløse Fotografi’, Mette Sandbye,Weekendavisen 24 April 2015
‘Dear Mary (Steel) – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’, review by Mette Garfield, Teater1 Magazine, # 170, April 2015
‘Det Kameraløse Fotografi’, Trine Ross, 2015 http://www.trineross.com/det-kameraloese-fotografi/
‘Old School’, Trine Ross, Politiken IBYEN 27 March 2015
‘Med kærlig indlevelse’, Rune Gade, Dagbladet Information, 28 November 2014 http://www.information.dk/517178
‘En fotografisk og performativ undersøgelse af Mary Willumsen’, Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo, Kunsten.nu, december 2014 http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?nanna+lysholt+hansen+ringsted+galleriet+dear+mary+steel
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Mary (Heaters)’, Trine Ross, Politiken 12.12 2014
‘Fotografisk Croquis’, Dan Qvitzau, Dagbladet Ringsted, 24 November 2014
‘To kvinder og deres Fotografier’, Dan Qvitzau, sn.dk, 18 November 2014 http://sn.dk/Ringsted/To-kvinder-og-deres-fotografier/artikel/449363
‘Performance Process – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’ Teater1 Magazine, # 168, November 2014
‘Bristol Biennial – Crossing the Line’, Phil Owen, CCG Magazine, October 2014: http://ccqmagazine.com/bristol-biennial-2014-crossing-line/
‘We can’t escape the culture: Bristol Biennial’, Millie Morris, Epigram, October 2014: http://epigram.org.uk/arts/2014/10/we-cant-escape-the-culture-bristol-biennial/
‘NLHspace – Nanna Lysholt Hansen’, Temporary Art Review, profiles, September 2014: http://temporaryartreview.com/nlhspace/
‘Crossing the Line’ – Bristol Biennial Catalogue, September 2014
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Dear Daughter / Motherboard Theories of Evolution’ interview with curator Rie Hovmann, June 2014
‘Nanna Lysholt Hansen – Miss no 1,2,3 #2’, Mette Garfield in Teater1 Magazine, # 166, April 2014
‘FOKUS 2014 Video Kunst Festival – Nikolaj Kunsthal, exhibition catalogue, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, February 2014
‘Skizofreni ved havets bred’, Ole Bak Jakobsen, Kunsten.nu, 3.06.2013
‘Skulpturfest 2.0’ , Henrik Broch-Lips, Aarhus Stiftstidende 01.06.2013
‘En kvinde i strømpebukser kan også være en skulptur’, Katrine Jo Andersen, Politiken I Byen 31.05.2013
‘Gratis kunst i vandkanten til alle’ , Dorte Washuus Bundgaard, Kristeligt Dagblad, 30.05.2013
‘Territories’ video compilation, Terrain Video, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, 2012
‘Skulptur og krop’, Pist Protta 70, red. Jesper Fabricius, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper RasmussenDecember 2011
‘Harmonious Difference’ Second Experimental Art Exhibition Catalogue, Central Academy of Fine Art, 2011
‘De unge kunstnere lefler ikke’ , Mette Sandbye, Weekendavisen 23.07.2011
‘Vi kan ikke røre, men vi kan se’, Torben Sangild, Politiken 02.07.2011
‘Afgang med orgeldrøn og sponsoreret rockwool’ , Kristian Handberg, www.kunsten.nu, 14.06.2011
‘AFGANG 2011’, exhibition catalogue, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, 10.06.2011
‘I træets tegn’, Trine Ross, www.trineros.com, 29.04.2011
‘Kopenhagen Contemporary Art Weekend’, Catalogues, 2008, 2010
‘Kunstnere behandler det moderne Kina’ , Torben Sangild, Politiken 11.06.10
‘transitstation’ exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen, 2010
‘Kamufleret kunst’, Trine Ross, Politiken 13.11.09
‘Opsamlingsheat’, Peter Borum, Politiken 15.05.09
‘Forårsudstillingen’, exhibtion catalogues, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
‘Nanna Lysholt-Hansen – Summary 2007-2008’, exhibition catalogue, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-87-992567-2-3
‘Den sprudler’, KBH Magazine, september 2008
‘Operation forårsluft’, Torben Sangild, Politiken 13.04.08
‘Stud.kurator’, Malene Wichmann, Billedkunstneren artists magazine, february 2008
‘Nanna Lysholt-Hansen – Gestures and Memory’, exhibition catalogue, 2007
‘Hvorfor vi gør, som vi gør’, Pernille Stensgaard & Henrik Winther, Weekend Avisen, 08.12.06
Ian Stephen -Transit Station, www.hi-arts.co.uk/apr06_feature_transit_station.html, HI-ArtsApril Feature, 2006
Nanna Lysholt-Hansen – Selected Works 2002-2005, exhibition catalogue, ISBN-13: 978-87-992567-1-6
Study trips:
2022: Athens + Tinos Island (GR)
2018: Athens (GR), Beijing (PRC)
2017: Naxos Island (GR)
2016: Wisconsin (USA)
2015: Istanbul (TR), New York (USA), Athens (GR)
2012: Cambridge, London, (GB) Dublin, (IRL) Kassel (DE), Athens (GR)
2011: New York, (USA) Athens (GR)
2010: Sao Paolo + Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2009: Beijing (PCR), Dusseldorf (DE)
2008: Tokyo + Kyoto + Nao Shima (JP)
2007: Kassel +Berlin (DE)
2006: Athens + Rhodos (GR)
2002-2005: London, (GB)
2001: Marseille + Paris (FR)