Tanja Nis-Hansen DK, b. 1988

Tanja Nis-Hansen (b. 1988, Faxe; DK) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. The artist graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg under the supervision of professor Jutta Koether.

Working between the mediums of painting, text, and performance, Nis-Hansen takes as her subject the body’s presence amid contemporary capitalism: anxious, waiting, resting, ill or non-functioning.

Recent exhibitions include: Impatient Girl at palace enterprise (Copenhagen; DK), Employee of the month at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (Videbæk; DK), The Great Spaghettification at Sans titre (Paris; FR).