b. 1988, Denmark
Tanja Nis-Hansen (born in 1988, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. Her subject is the body’s presence amid contemporary capitalism - anxious, waiting, resting, ill or non-functioning. She invites the viewer to think about female labour, exhaustion, illness, bodily maintenance, heritage, and the environment. The artist evinces a fascination for theatre and stage design, which in her paintings surfaces not only through the inner logic of space on the canvas, but also through an all over “theatrical” mode of representation.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Freaky Weather, Gallerie Solito, Naples (2023), Impatient Girl, palace enterprise, Copenhagen (2023), Employee of the Month, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk (2022) and The Great Spaghettification, Sans Titre, Paris (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: Dort, wo das Nichts ist (with Yen Chun Lin), Galerie im Turm, Berlin (upcoming, 2024), Nos corps anarchiques, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier (2023), draw a door in the wall and slip through it, Belenius, Stockholm (2023) and Kassandras søstre, Rudetårn, Copenhagen (2022).