Tanja Nis-Hansen (b. 1988, Faxe - Denmark) studied in Copenhagen and Wien before achieving both her BFA (2016) and MFA (2018) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg under the supervision of Professor Jutta Koether. Working between the mediums of painting, text, and performance, takes as her subject the body’s presence amid contemporary capitalism - anxious, waiting, resting, ill or non-functioning. Her semi-autobiographical works, which explore motifs including waiting rooms, spiral staircases, moments of rest, and text statements, invite the viewer to think about female labor, exhaustion, illness, bodily maintenance, heritage, and the environment. Perceptible throughout Nis-Hansen’s stylistically diverse oeuvre is an abiding curiosity about the history of painting and the social construction of hierarchies of taste. The artist evinces a fascination for theater 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.
Tanja Nis-Hansen has had solo exhibitions at palace enterprise (Copenhagen, 2023), Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (Videbæk, 2022), Sans titre (Paris, 2022 and 2019), Udstillingsstedet SydhavnStation (Copenhagen, 2019), HfBK (Hamburg, 2018), Come Over chez Malik’s (Hamburg, 2017). The artist was awarded the Neue Kunst Hamburg grant with Niclas Riepshoff (with whom she forms the duo CONNY) and a grant by the Danish Art Council in 2019, after being nominated for the Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium, the Hiscox Kunstpreis and the Schues Nachwuchsförderung in 2018.
Selected group exhibitions include Kassandras søstre, Rundetårn (Copenhagen, 2022), Mon palais, choir, Sans titre (Paris, 2022), La forme de l’eau, Paris (2022), Sleeping In, June (Berlin, 2022), Ancient Tongues, L’INCONNUE (New York, 2021), INDEX Vienna, SORT (Vienna, 2019), Space Opera, Crum Heaven (Stockholm, 2019), La Première, Sans titre (Paris, 2019), Fruits Suspended and Swaying, AEDT (Düsseldorf, 2019), Sanguine Husk, Rumpelstiltskin (New York, 2018), Nominees at Kunsthaus (Hamburg, 2018), Amore Atomico di Amore di Lava, Galleria Federico Vavassori (Milan, 2018), Munchener Kammerspiele (Munich, 2018), Compassionate, Der Tank, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW (Basel, 2018), Luxury problems, Halle für Kunst (Lüneburg, 2017), The trusting place, Galerie der HfBK (Hamburg, 2016), Yolo, Godsbanen (Aarhus, 2015) and Fluid Mechanic, Parallel Vienna (Vienna, 2014).
Tanja Nis-Hansen’s works are featured in the permanent collections of important institutions and museums such as the Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark.
Tanja Nis-Hansen lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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Tanja Nis-Hansen (b. 1988, Faxe - Denmark) studied in Copenhagen and Wien before achieving both her BFA (2016) and MFA (2018) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg under the supervision of Professor Jutta Koether. Working between the mediums of painting, text, and performance, takes as her subject the body’s presence amid contemporary capitalism - anxious, waiting, resting, ill or non-functioning. Her semi-autobiographical works, which explore motifs including waiting rooms, spiral staircases, moments of rest, and text statements, invite the viewer to think about female labor, exhaustion, illness, bodily maintenance, heritage, and the environment. Perceptible throughout Nis-Hansen’s stylistically diverse oeuvre is an abiding curiosity about the history of painting and the social construction of hierarchies of taste. The artist evinces a fascination for theater and stage design, which in her paintings surfaces not only through the inner logic of space on the canvas,...
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