Nanna Riis Andersen
Visual artist based in Denmark

Nanna Riis Andersen works with painting and drawing, exploring themes such as transformation, transitional phases, and the body. She uses a visual language that encompasses both the abstract and the figurative. Familiar shapes may seem on the verge of dissolving in the delicate layers of color, or a form may be magnified and removed from its usual context, to appear explicitly and take on a new meaning.

Nanna Riis Andersen (b. 1985) graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in 2012. She has exhibited both solo and in group shows at galleries and exhibition spaces in Denmark and abroad. She participated in the JCE Biennale in 2015 - 2017 in Denmark, Italy, and France. She was awarded the Sven Hols’ Grant in 2020 and the Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Foundation's work grant in 2024. She lives and works in Ringsted and Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • 2026
    Spændinger
    Duo w/ Maria Koshenkova
    Galleri Lene Bilgrav, Aarhus, DK

    Dialogue with Inge Ellegaard
    Group Exhibition
    Galleri Lene Bilgrav, Aarhus, DK

    2025
    HERFRA
    Group Exhibition
    Kunstbygningen i Vrå, DK

    2024
    We should meet in air
    With Signe Parkins and Johanne Helga Heiberg
    KH7 Artspace, Aarhus, DK

    Det Dobbeltsidede Hjerte
    Galleri Lene Bilgrav, Aarhus, DK

    Common Ground
    Group Exhibition
    Gravel Art, Sorø, DK

    Sti Vild Sti
    Formation Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

    2023
    Duo exhibition
    With Bjarne W. Sørensen
    Fyret i Hirtshals, DK

    Unbroken
    Kulturhuset Skanderborg, Skanderborg, DK

    2022
    Earthenware
    Galleri Lene Bilgrav, Aarhus, DK

    Reservoir
    With Nour Fog
    Gallery Channel, Copenhagen, DK

    Oceanflow
    Galleri Kulturstationen, Humlebæk, DK

    Deep Dive, Fremkaldte Lag
    Group Exhibition
    Gravel Art, Sorø, DK

    2021
    Netting Rooms
    With Eva Steen Christensen & Matilde Duus
    Galerie MøllerWitt, Copenhagen, DK

    Body Basket Beach
    pop-up exhibition at former SuperMarket
    Ringsted, DK

    Kroppen er et landkort
    With Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard
    Huset i Asnæs, DK

    Geodæsi
    With Bjørn Poulsen & Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard
    Borup Kulturhus, DK

    2020
    You Hide It So Well
    With Nils Elvebakk Skalegård
    SIRIN Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

    2019
    Drawing Attention
    With the art association ‘Den Frie Udstilling’
    Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK

    2018
    Fillings
    Møstings Hus
    Frederiksberg, DK

    WogL’s Artist Supplies Store
    Group Exhibition curated by Anna Walther and Anne Langgaard
    DELFI, Malmö, SE

    2017
    MOUTH
    Den Nordiske Ambassade Copenhagen, DK

    2015 - 2017
    JCE Biennale: Villa Olmo, IT - Museo de l’Empordà, Figueres, ES - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Municipal Museum, Amarante, PO - Kunstbygningen i Vrå, DK - Le Beffroi, Montrouge, F

  • 2026: Søhøjlandets Skole og Børnehus, Ry, DK
    Commissioned by Skanderborg Kommune

    2026: Kulbanekollegiet, Valby, DK
    Commissioned by Valbyfonden

  • 2026: Valbyfonden
    2024: Valbyfonden
    2024: Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse
    2021: DBF’s Kickstart Legat
    2020: Sven Hols’ Grant
    2018: Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond
    2018: Danish Arts Foundation, Production Grant
    2014: Danish Arts Foundation, Work Grant
    2010: Jutland Art Academy, Grant of Honor