Croy Nielsen

Education

2013 – 2015
Malmö Art Academy (Lund University), Master

2014
Textual Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

2010 – 2013
Malmö Art Academy (Lund University), Bachelor

2008 – 2010
Einar Granum School of Art, 3-Dimensional Techniques, Oslo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020
The Approach, London (upcoming)
Vleeshal, Middelburg (upcoming)

2019
SONW – Shadow Of New Worlds, Bergen Konsthall, Bergen
AMNESIA? AMNESIA?, Noplace, Oslo
Seasonal Pulses, Croy Nielsen, Vienna

2018
Hoarse Globules, UKS, Oslo 
Calluses, Tranen, Copenhagen 

2017
Skip Zone, Magenta Plains, New York (w. Tiril Hasselknippe and Kah Bee Chow)

2016
Lovely Hosts, MAVRA, Berlin
Real Friends, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo

2015
Rare Darlings, master graduate show at KHM gallery, Malmö

2014
Lime/​Bodybuilding/​Hype/​Discipline, Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen

2013
Make Me Like You, with Linda Spjut, CEO Gallery, Malmö

2012
Reflection and Reflective Practice, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Almost Like To Flog a Dead Horse, Podium, Oslo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
Who are we are Who, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne (upcoming)
With Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (upcoming)
HEKSENE, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen (upcoming)
Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (upcoming)
Beyond the Black Atlantic, Kunstverein Hannover

2019
Encounters-Nordic Photography Beyond Borders, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human, Lunds Konsthall, Lund 
Tempo Tempo Tempo, Kistefosmuseet, Jevnaker 
Shapeshifters, The Approach, London
OpenArt, Örebro
Encounters-Nordic Photography Beyond Borders,Hasselblad Center, Gøteborg

2018
KlubRå, Roskilde festival, Denmark
Face of Another, Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
Voyage,Tropez, Berlin
Vibrant Matter, SAK – Svendborg Amts Kunstbygning, Svendborg
Coronation, Horse & Pony, Berlin

2017
Subjektiv, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Hverdagen, Kristiansand Kunsthall
APPARATUS – Technologies of Persuasion, Kunstverein Braunschweig 
Subjektiv, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland-museet, Oslo 

2016
EKPGO, Tegnebiennalen, Oslo
Missed Connections, JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Düsseldorf
Dog.Piss.Protection.Attachments., L-Project Space, Beijing
Fredrik Roos, Moderna Museum, Malmö
EN KOLLEKTIV PSYKOGEOGRAFISK GUIDE TIL OSLO, Drawing biennalen 2016, Oslo
F-holes (Humble Habits Domestic Monuments pt. 2), HHDM, New York
Intersections, (w/​the Girls of the Internet Museum), Tensquared gallery 

2015
Swimminal Poolitics, dis Magazine (Online)
NeverWinter: BorderLands, organised by Agatha Valkyrie Ice and Daniel Iinatti, Dragon’s Lair, Stockholm
Kenosis, Halmlagret, Copenhagen
Bomber, Gallery Loyal, Stockholm
We will push the ship ashore and let it drift towards the darkest of oceans, Malmö Art Museum 
The Examples, Arts & Globalization Conference, Copenhagen
The Hot Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

2014
Phenomenal, Kunstschlager Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
Lumba Kuda, Window, Auckland, New Zealand 
FIGHT#7, Center, Berlin

2013
DNB Bank Art Grant foundation, Oslo Kunstforening/​Art association 
Bachelor exhibition, KHM gallery, Malmö
Places of Bourn, Tiril Hasselknippe feat. Emelie Sandström & Sandra Mujinga, Toves Galleri, Copenhagen

2012
Garden Show, Penang, Malaysia
Ann Cathrin November Høibo: It’s Not the Title Because it Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore, Oslo Kunstforening/​Art association 
Prøverommet, Gallery Knipsu, Bergen
July, CEO gallery, Malmö
Dear Gertrud, Gallery Pleasant, Copenhagen

2011
Destroy, She Said; Inter Arts Discourse and Production, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Edge of Glory, CEO, Gallery, Malmö
PANG AEA, Inter Arts Center, Malmö

Selected performances

2018
Live soundtrack: NaEE RoBErts x The place of Dead Roads, a film by Joachim Koester, Bergen Kunsthall
Nocturnal Kinship, Grüner Salon (Volksbühne), invited by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, Berlin

2017
NaEE RoBErts, Thora Dolven Balke, Alt Som Puster, Konspirerer, (UKS), Kunstnernes Hus
Opaque Poetics, curated by NKISI, Wysing Arts Center, Cambridge 
CAROLINE, with Linda Spjut, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
Performance event with: Hot Pocket-Tori Wrånes, National Museum of Art, Oslo 

2016
Simulation 2. AUTO FLT AP OFF, X AND BEYOND, Copenhagen
Safety First, Total Institution, SMK Friday, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

2015
When I Stopped Playing Hard to Get, Soft City, Inter Arts Center, Malmö 
EMELIE, Sommarscen Malmö, in collaboration with Linda Spjut 
The Polyphonic Host, Signal, Malmö
General Booty Of Work, Toves Reports from Venice, Venice 
Pillow, Future Legends, Palladium, Malmö 
YOU ARE INVITED, Center of Contemporary Art, Lagos
SOPHIEwith Linda Spjut, Sikås Art Center, Sikås

2014
Space Is Transience, PLX Kirseberg Kontemporära Kunsthall, Malmö 
ANNA, with Linda Spjut, Inkonst, Malmö
KAH BEE with Linda Spjut, Phenomenal, The Icelandic Sculpture Society, Reykjavík
I can delete it, it is not happening now, Soft City, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
NaEE RoBErts/​Sandra Mujinga, Ve.sch, Vienna 
SHOWROOM, with Linda Spjut, Showroom, Malmö

2013
Jacob Wren, BAND NIGHT, Skånes Konstforening, Malmö with Linda Spjut
Relay Logics, Claudia del Fierro,Critical and Pedagogical Studies, Inkonst, Malmö
Live Screening, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen
Embassy/​Friday/​Casuals/​CEO/​Sandra Mujinga, Inkonst, Malmö

2012
NaEE RoBErts, Skrammel, Inkonst, Malmö
Somebody that I used to know, book launch for ​“Kollektivet” by Ingrid Furre, Oslo
Support for HYPE WILLIAMS, collaboration with Ken Ood, Inkonst, Malmö
Zobah, radio gallery, Neu, radio Nova, Oslo
4 Love Songs, Konsthall Passagen, Linköping
Madots, La liberté fantasmaticque, exhibition by Karen Gimle, Rummet/​Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö
A Week Before The Frantz Reichelt Thing, TIMES Bar, Berlin

2011
Hair Food, Malmö Festival
Ska vi plocka körsbär i min trädgård… Skånes konstforening, Malmö
Zobah, Theaterens Natt, Kontrapunkt, Malmö
Zobah, ANY LANGUAGE FOR A COMMON EXPERIENCE, exhibition by Karen Gimle, KHM Gallery Malmö

2010
Strange Age art festival, Podium, Oslo

Grants

2018
Working grant, Kulturrådet 
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet

2017
Cultiva Ekspress
International exchange, Iaspis– Konstnärsnämnden
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet 
Exhibition grant, Vederlagsfondet

2016
International exchange, Iaspis– Konstnärsnämnden
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet
Exhibition grant, Vederlagsfondet
Fredrik Roos Stipendiet

2015
Diversestipend for Nyutdannede Kunstnere, Kulturrådet
Travel grant, OCA (CCA, Lagos)

2013

DNB Bank Art Grant foundation

Artist Talks

2018
Art World Talk | Sexism in the Art World with Hannah Weinberger, Julieta Aranda and Elvia Wilk, Art Basel
Conversation with Donna Kukama, Amanda Umuhire, Mayowa and Maggie Coker, invited by Lavender Wolf, Weissensee academy of art , Berlin

2017
Malmö Fotobiennal: The Society of the Spectacle, Malmö Konsthall

2016
Superslick Surfaces, Overgaden Lecture series, Overgaden, Copenhagen
Why Do We Need Idols, When We Have Eachother?, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

2015
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

2014
Sikås Art Center, Sikås

Screenings

2018
ILYNL (It’s Like You Never Left) 2016, Atlanta Contemporary Museum

2017
On Top of the Word Looking Over the Edge 2012, Lunds Konstkväll, Lunds Konsthall

2013
NaEE RoBErts-Forecast and Careful Thinking2012, Almanac Projects, Center, London
Live Screen Evening!!! After School Special, Landmark, Bergen

2012
NaEE RoBErts – Floppy Auto-Reaction to Spontaneous Enigma 2012galleri CEO, Malmö

Publications

2017
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Image Spread, Identity Politics Now, September 2017, Berlin

2014
Grafters’ Quarterly, ​‘Improvising Logics’ (first issue), Bergen
Ve.Sch Heft, Nr.19 & 20, Vienna
SSTLT-115919758, coeval​.gen​.in, Berlin
Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium

2013
Writing and Indifference, edited by Philip Gurrey and Johnny Herberted
I Love You 100% Yes I Do, Grafters’ Quarterly 
A present in print, If I can’t dance workshop, Copenhagen Art Festival

Collaborative projects

2017
Soundtrack to the film: Yesterday, In The Years 1886 and 2017 (2017) by Stephanie Comilang

2015
DungeonTT – A Modular performative installation by Lars Holdhus and Martin Kohout, Insomnia, Tromsø Kunstforening (costumes)

2012
Music label 300AD net-label
Music video ​“The Norm” for Sofia Härdig

Music Releases

2016
NaEE RoBErts- Summer Care, (50 ex. Kassetter) Idle Chatter, New York

2012
Remix of ​“Dark Motion” by Mmm…( 7” vinyl)
Charly Orange, Dear Janelle(50 cassettes, 300AD)
NaEE Roberts, ​“You Can’t Tickle Yourself”, Ambient Acid Vol 1. (digital)

Selected press

2018
Strategies for Survival: Wong Bing Hao examines the unconditional life & perishable presence of Sandra Mujinga’s HG, AQNB
CRITICS’ PICKS by Sara R. Yazdani, Artforum
Retter blikket mot de usynlige, Dagsavisen
Kroppen er hudens fôr, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
Sandra Mujinga sender postkort fra fremtiden, Morgenbladet
Portrait: Sandra Mujinga by Jeppe Ugelvig, SPIKE ART MAGAZINE
Det blir som en konstant kuratering av eget liv, D2
Samtidsliv gemt bag en kunstig læderhud Kun​sten​.nu

2017
Svart er det nye hvit, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
Subjektivt på Malmö Konsthall, Sveriges Radio
Group exhibition Apparat: at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kubaparis
Vi er på samme planet, NATT&DAG, Oslo, April/​May p. 42 & 43
Gambletron / NaEE RoBErts / Wren Turco, Tiny Mixtapes
Transparens: Gambletron/​Wren Turco/​NaEE RoBErts, Brainwashed
Objektiv Journal, issue: Subjektiv
SPECIAL FEATURE: Sandra Mujinga, Artviewer
Nuda Paper, issue. 2
Bang Tidsskrift, Issue.1
Future Greats selected by Kiki Mazzucchelli, ArtReview Januar & Februar

2016
Review: Sandra Mujinga-Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway Frieze​.com
On the Edge of Isolation, Objek​tiv​.no
Who Are Your Real Friends?, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
Internet-æstetik og solcreme på skærmen, kun​sten​.nu
Jeg er Sandra Mujinga, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
Artlovermagazine, nr. 28
Malmökonstnär tilldelas ett av Sveriges största konststipendier-Jonas Gillberg, Sydsvenskan
Tre lika goda artister fick dela på priset – Joakim Stierna, Skånska Dagbladet

2015 
Sydsvenskan-Dubbel Laddning- Thomas Millroth

2014
21. december – Pernille Albrethsen, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
19. december – Hannah Heilmann, Kun​stkri​tikk​.no
Soft City: three day performance and screening programme around Oslo, e​-flux​.com

2013
Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs pris delt ut, Kun​st​fo​rum​.as
Make You Like Me by Linda Spjut & Sandra Mujinga, Novembre Magazine
 ​“Things May Change But I’m Still The Same”- NaEE RoBErts, Rock​fo​to​.nu
BFA-utställning för konsthögskolan i Malmö, Kopenhagen Artguide

2012
Smug Magazine

2011
Tusen Bilder, Tusen Ord, RFSL (Swedish sexual information organization) Youth Project