Installation view Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, 2024
Photo by Angela Blumen
Nina Worren NO/DK (b. 1971)
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography
Multidisciplinary Artist & Curator
living in Copenhagen
For enquiries, collaborations or other please contact mail@ninaworren.com or
mobile +45 27314147
Represented by NW Gallery
Nansensgade 10
DK - 1366 Copenhagen K
Artist Book making and publishing at Hippocampus Publishing
www.hippcampus-publishing.com
Board member of
Fotografiens Hus, Norway
www.fotografienshus.no
Member of
BKF
Danish Visual Artists
UKK
Organisation for Artists,
Curators and Art Mediators
CV
EDUCATION
2022 - 2024 MFA in Photography at HDK Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 - 2022 Atelier Smedsby, One-year mentor program with JH Engström and M.Wallard
2015 Short- and Documentary Film school, Denmark (From stills to video)
2009 International Center of Photography, One-year certificate in General Studies (photography and video art) in New York, USA
2005 Fatamorgana – Denmarks School of Art Photography in Copenhagen, Denmark 2001 Photogram Photoschool in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ARTIST
Exhibitions
2024 "Proximity, Time and Presence", group exhibition, NW Gallery, Copenhagen,DK
2024 MFA Afgangsudstilling, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2023 "Last Week of Clarity", Gallery Format, Malmö, Sweden
2023 "No Read Thread", Gallery Monitor at HDK Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 "You, Me and I" with Uncertain States Scandinavia, NW Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2020 “Silent Voice”, NW Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2019 “Close”, NW Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018 “Family Matters”, NWGallery, Copenhagen, DK
2017 “H E A R T”, NW Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2015 MaxA5, Gallery Tys, Copenhagen, DK
2014 Electron Salon, LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art), California, USA
2013 “(Un)Clothed”, juried by Mona Kuhn, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado, USA
2011 DCK#2011 -The Cencored Art Exhibition, Filosofgangen, Odense, DK
2011 “Rewind Forward”, in cooperation with Sara Skorgan Teigen, “13” at Copenhagen Photo festival, Copenhagen, DK
2009 “Pluperfect”, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2008 “P.T. - Photographic Tendencies”, Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
CURATOR
2017 - All exhibitions at NW Gallery & The Project Room (in total more than 20 exhibitions) 2022 "You, Me and I" exhibition, co-curated with Uncertain States Scandinavia
2021 ”Soft Power – The Second Phase of Photobooks” co-curated with Julia Mejnertsen/Blankt Papir at Copenhagen Photo festival
2020 “Norwegian Photobooks” at Photo Week Aarhus, invited by Moritz Neumeier and Galleri Image/Beate Cegielska
WORKSHOPS
Together with Sara Skorgan Teigen, www.saraskorganteigen.com "Unfinished Processes, beginners mind"
Mirari, Åland in Finland, 2023
NW Gallery & The Project Room, host of international workshops 2018-
Educator/Lecturer/Portfolio reviewer
DIS Copenhagen, https://disabroad.org/copenhagen/
KBH Film - and Photoschool, https://www.kbhfilmogfotoskole.dk Cyan Oslo/Henie Onstad Art Center
KEA
VERA School of Art and Design
WRITINGS
2024 “Where Does Beauty Come From?”, Article, University of Gothenburg, Swedenhttps://ugotphotography.se/where-does-beauty-come-from/2023 "I have been her kind", Portfolio, Verk Tidskrift https://www.verktidskrift.se/i-have-been-her-kind-text-nina-worren
2022 "You, Me and I", about the self-portrait, Issue 16 of thebroadsheet paper by Uncertain States Scandinavia
https://ucsscandinavia.com/issue-16/
2022 "Sommerlys/Summerlight" about Dag Alveng's works, Verk Tidskrift https://www.verktidskrift.se/sommerlys
Illustrations/Publications
2023 "I have been her Kind", Handmade Artist Book, Edition of 100, self published
2022 "You, Me and I" Issue 16 of the broadsheet paper by Uncertain States Scandinavia 2018 "Året / The Year" – contribution to the publication April, www.blanktpapir.com Womens Litterature, by KVINFO 2017
www.nordicwomensliterature.net/da/article/kvindelighedens-snubletråde-chicklit-iet-nordisk- perspektiv
2011 Copenhagen Photo Festival (catalogue)
2009 “SHIFT 4” (catalogue), International Center of Photography 2007 “I smug”, zine book, SHOK
Grants/funding/Collection
2024 Working Grant/Diverse Stipend from the Norwegian Culture Fund
2017-2024 Various funds supporting artistic work and research/NW Gallery & The Project Room from The Danish Arts Foundation, Nordic Culture Fund, Copenhagen Municipality, DJMX-Danish Journalist Federation, Grosserer Foghts Fund and more
2009 International Center of Photography scholarship
Collection
Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Humanistic Library, Public Library of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden