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ABOUT

Through close engagement with different communities, my work responds to social and political realities in contemporary Europe and beyond. I try to create space for lived experience to unfold on its own terms, allowing individuals to articulate their realities rather than imposing a fixed narrative. While my work is rooted in documentary and lived experience, in recent years I have also begun making narrative films that explore the similar subject matter in a different form.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Nikolaj Larsen (born in Denmark 1971). Larsen lives and works in Paris, France. Solo exhibitions include: 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 Bendix Skyum Larsen's work is represented in public and private collections in Denmark, England, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Peru, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and United States - 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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