In January Camden Arts Centre presents a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Nina Canell (b.1979). Canell’s sculptures playfully rearticulate the workings of the physical world and our conception of it, rendering the invisible observable and intangible corporeal. Nina Canell: Near Here opens at Camden Arts Centre on 17 January 2014 and admission is free.

Canell’s ongoing experiments appropriate household objects in an attempt to articulate the materiality of everyday elements. Transforming electrical currents, atmospheric elements, and other invisible physical energies into sculptural components, her assemblages fuse matter, light and sound to create surreal testing grounds.

Fascinated with the subtlety of fluctuating forces and the continual invisible shifts in energies, Canell’s work reveals the innate bond we have with our surrounding atmosphere. Testing this intimate intersection of audience, object and event, the outcomes of her work are both humorous and poetic.

Nina Canell: Near Here will present a new series of works responding to the specific architectural features of Camden Arts Centre. The gallery’s historic ventilation system, ducts and airways, and its relationship to the busy Finchley Road will be key to the development of these works, inviting the audience to experience the gallery space anew.

Nina Canell: Near Here will be on show in Gallery 3 at Camden Arts Centre. On show at the same time is an exhibition by Silke Otto-Knapp in Galleries 1 & 2.

Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, educated in Dublin, Ireland, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include: Lautlos (a two-person show with Rolf Julius), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2013); Stray Warmings, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis (2013); Tendrils, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2012); Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair , Cubitt Gallery, London (2012); Ode to Outer Ends, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011); To Let Stay Projecting As A Bit Of Branch On A Log, Mumok, Vienna (2011); and Five Kinds of Water, Der Kunstverein, Hamburg (2009). She has been included many major international exhibitions including: La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Liverpool Biennial (2010); 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); On Line, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); and Manifesta 7 European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2008). She also received the Baloise Kunst Prize at Art Basel Statements in 2009 and Ars Viva Kunst Prize in 2010.