Växjö, Sweden. Visual arts, sculpture.

Lives and works in Berlin. His sculptures add substance to the intangible and luminosity to the physical. By subtly drawing the fluctuation of forces and the detail of perception, he brings material objects into contact with immaterial forces such as light, gravity or the atmosphere, in a way that causes a transformation of the initial object. Its unorthodox use of materials and objects of little economic value or waste, such as electrical cables, fluorescent tubes, nails, chewing gum, rope, wood or fiber optics found in seas and beaches aims to transfer, exchange and share the forms of an intuitive knowledge .

He was educated in Dublin, Ireland and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His latest exhibitions include (selection): Arko Art Center, Seoul (2015) Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2014), Camden Arts Center, London (2014), Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2014), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (with Rolf Julius) (2012-2013), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Vienna (2010).

Nina Canell's artistic practice refers to the physical and chemical characteristics of the materials and objects found, as well as their metaphorical nature.

By placing material forms and immaterial forces in close proximity, for example by electrifying, heating or moistening wood, copper, plastic or glass, you create works that embody a state of exchange, a process. Canell's sculptural practice focuses on this transformative affect: materials and objects are being animated by a process in his installations or have been the site of a process in which an encounter or a journey has taken place. Despite the articulation of material phenomena, Canell's works are essentially indicative in nature since they open a meaning to the symbolic capacities of objects by exploring the relationship between humans, objects and events. This understanding is formally supported by the minimal installation of the works within the space that lacks monumental character.

His work has been included in several international group exhibitions, for example at the 13th Lyon Biennale, the 18th Sydney Biennale; La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; On Line, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool, Manifesta 7, Trentino-Alto Adige / Suedtirol, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju.

Canell occasionally works in collaboration with artist Robin Watkins (1980). Both understand films and music as not only visual and acoustic phenomena, but also physical, electromagnetic, imagery catalysts and transforming agents.