NINA BEIER

Nina Beier was born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1975 and after many years in Berlin has moved to Copenhagen. There she lives and works, and runs AYE-AYE exhibition space with Simon Dybbroe Møller. 

“I tend to get attracted to things that carry some sort of a problematic tension. This state often appears at the time when the value of an object is being renegotiated. A clear example of this are the hand-rolled cigars I worked with – the cigar is an object that carries some heavy baggage: global trade history, notions of wealth, power, and patriarchy. When you look at this object, the space that unfolds is different today than it was just 10 or 20 years ago. There is something about the transitional moment in an object’s status, when we can all of a sudden see it for what it is, when it becomes a vehicle for its own history.”

As told to Rasmus Kyllönen

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