Temporary Encampment (Five Blue Solids)” (Detail). 2009

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Wintersun, Sleepy Tongue. from the The Inner Life of Things at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany). 2010

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from the exhibtion: Life: A User’s Manual – Art Sheffield (UK), 2010
Image © Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

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from the exhibtion: Life: A User’s Manual – Art Sheffield (UK), 2010
Image © Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

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from the exhibtion: Life: A User’s Manual – Art Sheffield (UK), 2010
Image © Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

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Gatherin Nerves. 2010

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Tapetum Lucidum
image © Pixel Form

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Tapetum Lucidum (detail)
image © Pixel Form

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Shepherd’s Feet. 2010
image © NILS KLINGER

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NINA CANELL in her studio
portrait © SIBILLA CALZOLARI

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Swedish artist NINA CANELL creates experimental installations which are characterised by discreet shifts, transformations and observations in the spaces between people, objects and happenings. Raw materials, such as electricity, gas, magnets and water, find themselves collaborating with other equally binding agents with conductive properties to create surprisingly detailed choreographed actions. As a result, CANELL’s interventions are both object and event; a form of sculptural thought experiments that introduce unexpected links between people and physical phenomena.

Hers is a sensual landscape of spatial, sonic and social unity, where the remnants of the post-industrial aesthetic correspond to the organic effects choreographed by the artist as ephemeral compositions of everyday objects, smoke and electronic sounds.

NINA CANELL’s work is currently on view in the solo exhibition Ode to Outer Ends at Kunsthalle Fridericianum (until 5 June, 2011 in Kassel) and at Konrad Fischer Galerie (until June 04 , 2011 in Berlin). CANELL was the recipient of the Baloise Kunst Prize at Art Basel Statements in 2009 and the Ars Viva Prize, Germany in 2010.