Tanja Nis-Hansen

Tanja Nis-Hansen (born in 1988, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. She studied in Copenhagen and Vienna 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 Galerie im Turm, Berlin (with Yen Chun Lin) (2024); Solito - Galleria S2 (2023); palace enterprise, Copenhagen (2023); Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk (2022); Sans titre, Paris (2022 and 2019); Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen (2019); HfBK, Hamburg (2018); Come Over chez Malik’s, Hamburg (2017).

Selected group exhibitions include Condo at Union Pacific, London (2024); ‘Nos corps anarchiques’, curated by Georgia René-Worms at Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier (2023); ‘draw a door in the wall and slip through it’, Belenius, Stockholm (2023); ‘Kassandras søstre’ at 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).

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 all in 2018.

Tanja Nis-Hansen’s works are featured in the permanent collection of the Danish Arts Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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exhibition view, Dort, wo das Nichts ist, 2023, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
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The biggest mystery in the universe II, 2023, putty, pumice, oil pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas with wooden frame, ⌀ 416 cm
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exhibition view, Freaky Weather, 2023, Solito - Galleria S2, Naples
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exhibition view, Freaky Weather, 2023, Solito - Galleria S2, Naples
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, Freaky Weather, 2023, Solito - Galleria S2, Naples
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exhibition view, Nos corps anarchiques, 2023, curated by Georgia René-Worms, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier
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exhibition view, Nos corps anarchiques, 2023, curated by Georgia René-Worms, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier
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exhibition view, impatient girl, 2023, palace enterprise, Copenhagen
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exhibition view, impatient girl, 2023, palace enterprise, Copenhagen
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Dr. Giggles and The Dramatics, 2023, oil and oil pastel on canvas, pine wood frame, 162.5 x 122.5 cm, unique
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Little-Miss-Fortune-Telling, I, II, III, 2023, oil, acrylic and oil chalk on canvas with pine wood frame, 270 x 70 cm, unique
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exhibition view, impatient girl, 2023, palace enterprise, Copenhagen
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Flowers For The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 120 cm, unique
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From Mourning ’Til Evening (Summer), 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 x 180 cm, unique
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exhibition view, Employee of the Month, 2022, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, Employee of the Month, 2022, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, Employee of the Month, 2022, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, Employee of the Month, 2022, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, Employee of the Month, 2022, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Trip 3, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 x 180 cm, unique, exhibition view, Kassandras søstre, 2022, Rundetårn, Copenhagen
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exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
Tanja Nis-Hansen - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid Trip 2, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, 220 x 180 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Green face (I am still a patient girl), 2021, graphite putty and oil on canvas, wooden frame, ø 20 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Are you ready to get healthy?, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, 90 x 70 cm, unique
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Let me tickle your fears (detail), 2021, installation with 340 CNC cut MDF letters, 15 x 1.2 cm (each), unique
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exhibition view, The Great Spaghettification, 2022, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Rusty clock (I am still a patient girl), 2021, iron compound, oxidation compound, MDF, metal and clockwork, wooden frame, ø 50 cm, unique
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), Find me in the Filling, 2021, exhibition view, Neue Kunst in Hamburg at Galerie Melike Bilir
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), Find me in the Filling (video still), 2021, video, 17:09 min
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), exhibition view, 20:15 Uhr, 2021, Neue Kunst in Hamburg at Galerie Melike Bilir
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), exhibition view, 20:15 Uhr, 2021, Neue Kunst in Hamburg at Galerie Melike Bilir
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), 4:00, 2021, ink, paper, magazine cut-out, collage on paper, 28.5 x 40 cm, unique
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), exhibition view, 20:15 Uhr, 2021, Neue Kunst in Hamburg at Galerie Melike Bilir
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), 18:10, 2021, ink, collage on paper, 26 x 38.5 cm, unique
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installation view, solo presentation at LISTE Art Fair, 2021, Basel
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Notes on death due to falling, 2021, oil on canvas, 160 x 240 cm, unique
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Start singing lessons, get a dog, work out, enjoy your evolving career, 2021, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, unique
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installation view, solo presentation at LISTE Art Fair, 2021, Basel
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The dramatics, 2021, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, unique
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Abracadabra, Now you see it, now you don’t, 2021, graphite putty, iron primer and oxidation medium on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, unique
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exhibition view, Ancient Tongues, 2021, L’INCONNUE, New York
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I’m a patient girl, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, ø 90 cm, unique
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Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, unique
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Death Watch or 45 minutes of solitude but now it’s a quarter to 2, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, ø 120 cm, unique
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The lady is seemingly floating, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 80 x 70 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Benign Tumour, 2019, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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exhibition view, The Benign Tumour, 2019, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Cat and fox deliberating on possible escape routes (or every night we practice how to die), 2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Benign Tumour, 2019, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Keep your eyes peeled, all of our histories are just stories, 2019, oil and graphite putty on canvas, 140 x 110 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Benign Tumour, 2019, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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Internal affairs, 2018, oil and graphite on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, unique
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When the inevitable collapse came to town, 2019, acrylic, graphite putty and oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, unique
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exhibition view, DE HIMLENDE ØJNE, 2019, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen
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Away from Keyboard - Out of Oxygen, 2019, oil on canvas, 180 x 360 cm, unique
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performance view, Teenage Mutant, 2019, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen
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exhibition view, DE HIMLENDE ØJNE, 2019, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen
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Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening, 2019, oil on canvas, ø 80 cm, unique
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Art-Money-Sorrow-Balance, 2019, oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cm, unique, exhibition view, SORT, Vienna, 2019
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performance view, Teenage Mutant, 2019, Kunsthaus Hamburg
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performance view, Teenage Mutant, 2019, Kunsthaus Hamburg
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), Set up for CONNY (Membrane), 2018-2019, oil and pigment on canvas on wooden frame, chain, styrofoam, newspapers, mirrors, 300 x 200 cm, unique
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), Set up for CONNY (Membrane), 2018-2019, oil and pigment on canvas on wooden frame, chain, styrofoam, newspapers, mirrors, 300 x 200 cm, unique
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), Set up for CONNY (Membrane), 2018-2019, oil and pigment on canvas on wooden frame, chain, styrofoam, newspapers, mirrors, 300 x 200 cm, unique
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), performance view, Café Miao, 2018
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), performance view, Café Miao, 2018
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CONNY (Tanja Nis-Hansen & Niclas Riepshoff), performance view, Café Miao, 2018
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Untitled, 2019, oil and graphite on canvas, ø 90 cm, unique
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exhibition view, La Première, 2019, Sans titre (2016), Paris
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K für Katharsis, 2019, acrylic on MDF, 54 x 38 cm, unique
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Cautious distrust, 2018, oil and graphite on canvas, 160 x 120 cm, unique
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Ceremony of the unimpressed (3), 2018, oil and graphite on canvas, 190 x 150 cm, unique
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The distributors, 2018, oil and graphite on canvas, 160 x 120 cm, unique
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exhibition view, degree show, 2018, HFBK Hamburg
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exhibition view, degree show, 2018, HFBK Hamburg
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A twist in my sobriety, 2018, oil and graphite on canvas, 160 x 140 cm, unique

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