Contact:
Studio Nanna Debois Buhl
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Nanna Debois Buhl is a visual artist working at the intersection of aesthetic, scientific, and speculative realms. Her practice spans installations, weavings, films, photographs, generative algorithms, artist’s books, and large-scale public commissions. Grounded in a conceptual and experimental approach, her work combines in-depth collaborations with scientists—including researchers at CERN and the Niels Bohr Institute—and extensive material experimentation in the studio, at the loom, and in the darkroom.
By combining historical and emerging technologies, she connects what is addressed in her works to how they are made. Her practice incorporates literary forms ranging from science fiction and poetry to system-based writing, telling counter-histories and nurturing attentiveness to matter and meaning. Through studies spanning plants and particles, clouds and computer memory, her tactile and intricate projects explore our tangled coexistence with the organisms, materials, and technologies that surround us, inviting new ways to sense and understand these relationships.
Buhl is currently an artistic postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the National Gallery of Denmark. She holds a practice-based artistic PhD degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Copenhagen (2024), attended the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, New York (2008–09), and received her MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2006). She has exhibited widely at institutions including the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; SculptureCenter, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Munch Museum, Oslo; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Copenhagen Contemporary; and the Bucharest Biennial 7. Her work is represented in public collections such as the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg; Malmö Konstmuseum; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally, she has realized numerous large-scale public commissions in Denmark and internationally.
Selected writing on the work of Nanna Debois Buhl:
Between Worlds
by Lars Bang Larsen, exhibition text, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2024
Nanna Debois Buhl: Kosmiske billeder
by Lisbeth Bonde, kunsten.nu, 2020
Nanna Debois Buhl genopdager astro-videnskabens kvindelige pionerer
by Ditte Vilstrup Holm, kunsten.nu, 2020
Exposed Terrain
a conversation between Lucy Gallun and Nanna Debois Buhl, intervals and forms of stones of stars, 2017
Nattevandringer ud i det blå
by Rune Gade, Information, 2014
Walking
by Jen Kennedy, Street Haunting, 2012
In Your Words / Nanna Debois Buhl & Brendan Fernandes
by Amanda Parmer, Art in America, 2011
City Grammar / Nanna Debois Buhl & Liz Linden
by Sarah Lookofsky, Artforum.com, 2011
On Wandering
by Johanna Burton, A Journey in Two Directions, 2010
When an Artist Writes: Poetry and Nanna Debois Buhl’s Journey in two Directions
by Jill Magi, jillmagisblog.blogspot.com, 2010
Evidence of Circumstance: Virgin Island Scenario
by Thomas J. Lax, exhibition text, The Studio Museum Harlem, 2009
Selected interviews:
Atmospheric Omens
video interview by Arts at CERN, 2024
Picture the Sky
podcast by Bloom Festival, 2020
Nanna Debois Buhl’s Stellar Spectra
two podcasts by Fotografisk Center, 2020
Time Travelling with Photography
video interview by Louisiana Channel, 2019
Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
video interview by B-A-U, 2016