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ABOUT

My work engages with marginalised communities and the human condition in moments of transition and uncertainty. I create portraits of people at the edges of society, as well as the places they inhabit or pass through. Rather than imposing fixed narratives, I try to create space for lived experience to unfold on its own terms. While my practice is rooted in documentary filmmaking, in recent years I have also developed narrative films that explore similar questions through fiction.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Nikolaj Larsen (born in Denmark 1971). Larsen lives and works in Paris, France. Solo exhibitions include: Lost Somehow, Galeria Presença, Porto (2023); In Limbo, Galeria Presença, Porto (2018); End of Dreams, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (2016) and SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015); Promised Land, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris (2012); Rising Floating Falling, Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (2004). Group exhibitions include: Le regard du temps, Culturfoundry, Paris (2021); Transoceanexpress, Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal (2020); Believe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2018); Tension and Conflict at MAAT, Lisbon; Disappearance at Sea - Mare Nostrum, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2017); Chassés-croisés, tours et détours autour du détroit, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (2014); Word. Sound. Power, Tate Modern, London, UK (2013); Estuary, Museum of London, UK (2013); Together, Trondheim Art Museum, Norway (2012); Thessaloniki Biennial 3, Greece (2011), Folkestone Triennial, UK (2011); Sharjah Biennial editions 9, UAE (2009); Une vision du monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2006).

Nikolaj Larsen's work is represented in public and private collections internationally - including Museum of London, England, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE and Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, and the Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaitre Video Collection, Paris, France.

Nikolaj is represented by Galeria Presença

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