Nina Ekman

Norwegian visual artist, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nature and questions of human relations are recurring sources of inspiration and subject matters in Nina Ekman’s work. The connection to nature is deeply rooted in Ekman as the wilderness in North of Norway has been the backdrop throughout her childhood. Her relationship to nature is not only a personal longing, but a point of interest which has unfolded the topic of nature’s role to man and vice versa.

Painting was Ekman’s point of commence, where she expressed her reflections on memory, loss and grief which in essence was an exploration and navigation through her own encounters with death at a young age. The correlation between the inner and outer world, reconciliation and life appreciation have thus become a thread running through her praxis whether painting, etching or tufting.

Ekman’s work floats between paint and textiles, sculptures and etchings, and she is always experimenting with ways to stretch and challenge her own use of the media. Most recently Ekman has been drawn by the technique of tufting as a way of building textile sculptures. Tufting is a method of weaving carpets, but to Ekman tufting has become a playful opportunity to create singul...

Ekman is partly autodidact and has studied art at Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris, product design at The Design Academy in the Netherlands, and was trained in copper etching and printing at Atelier Velasco & Meller in Paris. To find out where she will exhibit next, take a look at her Exhibitions.


Foundation year Parsons School of Art and Design, Paris, France
Product design, The Design Academy, Eindhoven, the Netherlands,
Clinical masters in psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Trained in etching and printing, Atelier Velasco et Meller, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions
2019 When illusions fade, Gallery Lowlands, Copenhagen
2019 Courage- invitations to mindfully explore life, Gallery Lowlands, Copenhagen
2017 Wake up and smell the music, La Vache Bleue, Paris

Select Group Exhibitions / Fairs

2019 (forthcomming december) Auction for Chile
Konsta(u)ktion på hangmenProjects, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Juleutstillingen, Heggedal Fabrikker, Norway
2019 Afer Blue, Gallery Lowlands,
2019 FUGL 2019, Johannes Larsens Museum, Kerteminde
2019 Kunst for alle, Lokomotivhallerne, Copenhagen