education
2024 Practice Based PhD at Vilnius Art Academy
2019 Postgraduate Course Materialities, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 - 2015 Meisterschülerin and Akademiebrief, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 - 2012 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 - 2008 BA Social and Cultural Anthropology and Art History, Freie Universität zu Berlin
grants
2026 Culture Moves Europe Mobility grant
2025 Danish Art Foundation, project grant
2024 -2028 Practice- Based Doctoral Fellowship Programme, Department of Film, Photography and Animation, Vilnius Academy of Art.
2023 residency, grant Laesø Air, Laesø, Denmark
2022 research grant Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Braunschweig projects,
2022 Statens Kunstfonds production grant, Statens Kunstfonds, Denmark
2021 Künstlerprojekt, project grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany
2021/2020 Statens Kunstfonds, project grant for “A Timeline starting on the Surface”, Copenhagen, DK 2021
2021 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany
2020 Jan Van Eyck Academy, artist in residence working grant, Maastricht, Netherlands
2020 The Danish Art Foundation, project grant, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 The Academy Council, Supporting grant, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 „Life in the Future of Science and Technolgy“, studio grant, Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Working Grant, A2, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany
2017 Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Residency, Norway
2017 Statens Kunstfond, The Danish Art Foundation, production grant for duo show „Luftmensch“ with Martha Hviid, Den Nordiske Ambassade, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Individual Working Grant for abroad, The Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany/ Denmark
2016 Kunstgenerator Stipend, working grant, Viersen, Germany
2016 Kunststiftung NRW, Project grant for the exhibtion and publication of „THINGNESS“ together with Gaby Peters at Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2014 Artist-in-Residence Stipend, Art & Technology - Diabas Master Class, Olofström, Sweden
2013 Miloslav Chlupáč - Stipend, Sommer Academy, Salzburg, Austria
selected exhibitions
2026 Upcoming solo exhibition at Horsens Kunstmuseum, opening on October 17th
2024 Ever Again, Andgate, Tarnby/CPH, DK (Solo)
2024 Frühjahrsrundgang der Spinnerei Galerien
2024 Open Studio @ HALLE 14, 3rd Floor . Studio 11
2023 Now Here, Then There. 40 Years Gallery Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK (G)
2023 Yet, it moves! Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK (G)
2023 Cleaving the Wind into Fragments, Montagehalle HBK Braunschweig, DE (G)
2022 Winter Show, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK (G)
2022 Chart Art fair, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Cph, DK
2022 Begin Again, Korean Cultural Center Berlin /London, GER/UK (G)
2022 Duo show together with Silas Inoue, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Gathering Geographies, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia (G)
2021 A Timeline starting on the Surface, Gallery Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo)
2021 Travel in Space, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (G)
2021 Sammenstoed, Ringsted Galleri, Ringsted, Denmark (G)
2020 5 forms of Play, Celsius projects, Jan. 2020, Malmö, Sweden (G)
2020 DEW Kunstpreis, Nominiertenausstellung, Museum Ostwall, Dortmunder U, Germany (G)
2019 Strömmar, Upper Hand Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (G)
2019 Into the Current, curating Friederike Haug, Martha Hviid, Richas Digest, Cologne, Germany (G)
2019 Die Grosse NRW, museum kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2019 Kolonien, Herlev, Denmark (G)
2019 Circadian Rhythms, OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo)
2018 Presentation of the new Collection, Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, Denmark (G)
2018 10 Years of the Kunstgenerator Stipend, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany (G)
2018 Face of Another, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark (G)
2018 Vibrant Matter, SAK Svendborg, Denmark (G)
2017 Luftmensch, Duo show with Martha Hviid, Den Nordiske Ambassade, Copenhagen, Denmark (G)
2017 „da instinktiv die Frontalansicht dominiert...“ Kunst am Hafen, Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2017 Auf Achse, MERZ Vereinigung, Linz, Austria (G)
2017 HypoSmalldog Xr, Richas Digest, Cologne, Germany (Solo)
2016 zeroes on the loose, Kunstgenerator, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany (Solo, Cat.)
2016 basswood, peachtrees, exercises RAUM Oberkassel, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
2016 open matter, Künstlerverein Onomato, Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2016 HERMÈS Artist Window, curatied by Richard Deacon and Rita McBride, Hermès Store Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2016 new talents biennale cologne, Agrippaviertel, Cologne, Germany (G, Cat.)
2015 Bergischer Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany (G)
2015 Silent Spring: Dress To Stay Dry (Performance 4.6.15) Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (P/G)
2015 The Heavy Petting Gallery, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (G)
2015 Let‘s Dance, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany (G)
2014 Nominiertenausstellung Stipendium der Märkischen Kulturkonferenz „Plastik im kleinen Format“, Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, Germany (G)
2014 Art & Technology. Diabas Master Class, Commune of Olofström, Sweden (G)
2013 Men_Machine, with Ragnhild May, Projektpresentation at Steinbruch Kiefer, Salzburg, Austria (G)
2013 Und was machen wir morgen? Hohenloher Kunstverein, Künzelsau, Germany (G)
2013 Reality Bites part. I and part II, A100, Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
2012 Die Grosse NRW Kunstausstellung, museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (G)
2011 Keystones, BKS Garage. Copenhagen, Denmark (G)
2010 Empire of Dust, Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the European Union, Brussels, Belgium (G)
2010 South Of No North, Galerie Entrée, Bergen, Norway (G)
show&tell_conferences
2026 May 4th artist talk and panel discussion, Dansk -Tysk Symposium "Tysk Passion", Copenhagen University,Faculty of Humanities, together with Prof. Detlev Siegfried und Ellen Martine Heuser
2022 September 21st September 21st artist talk with Lars Bang Larsen, in the context of "Grundstof/From the Earth", duo show at Arken Museum for Contemporary Art
2020 August 17th Free Lunch Series, Nina Nowak, Art Hub Copenhagen
2019 Vandløb, together with Prof. Tomas Bohr, Professor Institute of Fluid Dynamics, University of Lyngby, RESPOND Tech festival, Copenhagen
2019 Water summit „Life with Water“, Art Hub Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 August 27th Such Soft Stuff! panel discussion with Camilla Reyman and Martha Hviid at Art Hub Copenhagen
publications
2023 Nowak, Nina, and Leah Triplett Harrington. "The Shape of Time." Interview. SCULPTURE magazine, US fall issue
2022 Nowak, Nina. Meet Me at the Beach. Artist Book with an essay by Stefanie Heine. 350 copies
2022 Schwerdtfeger, Mara (ed.). Gathering Geographies. Exhibition catalog. Darren Knight Gallery, 29.01.-26.02.2022, Sydney, AU
2016 Nanna Stjernholm and Stine Kähler (eds.). Vibrant Matter - I Dialog med Kai Nielsen. Exhibition catalog. SAK, Svendborg, 20.01.-04.03.2018, DK
2016 Nowak, Nina. Zeroes on the Loose. Exhibition catalog. Städtische Galerie im Park, 400 copies, 06.12.2016 - 30.01.2017, Viersen, DE
2016 Peters, Gaby, and Nowak, Nina (curators). Thingness. Exhibition catalog with essays by Julia Höner, Friederike Fast. Künstlerhaus Dortmund, 500 copies, DE, supported by Kunststiftung NRW Dortmund, GER
2016 New Talents Biennale no.5. Exhibition catalog. 500 copies, Cologne, DE
2015 Internationaler 69. Bergischer Kunstpreis. Exhibition catalog. 400 copies, Kunstmuseum Solingen, DE
2015 Class of Richard Deacon (ed.). Full Stop. Edition of 50. Düsseldorf, DE