
Nina Beier, The Complete Works, 2009 Playground Festival, Stuk, Leuven, 2010 Curator: Eva Wittocx, Video projection: Joachim Koester, Dancer: Dominique Duszynski, Photo: Liesbeth Bernaerts
Nina Beier: Performance x 2
”Swell” and ”The Complete Works”.
30.8 – 31.8 2025
Malmö
Date:
30 August: Swell
31 August: The Complete Works
Time: at 14.30
Location: The Turbine Hall
Ticket: No pre-registration. Included in the admission fee. Free admission for those 25 and under.
Contact: Curator Andreas Nilsson
In Nina Beier’s work, a dynamic interplay between the material and the narrative challenges any one-dimensional perspective. The newly produced piece “Swell” (2025) brings together a group of uniformly dressed individuals who, on cue, perform synchronized push-ups. An inner, personal motivation is transformed into a collective movement – both precise and fluid. As in many of Beier’s works, the seemingly simple yet physical gesture opens up for multiple interpretations, where pop cultural tropes, contemporary politics, and the absurd converge. The relationship between subject and object becomes tangible, as the individual dissolves into the collective.
In “The Complete Works” (2009), the audience encounters a retired dancer who, following Beier’s instructions, is asked to recreate all the movements and choreographies they performed throughout their career. The performance is not preceded by any rehearsal, relying solely on personal and embodied memory. Just as much as the piece is an intimate, introspective journey for the dancer, it becomes an emotional and complex choreography for the viewer.
About Nina Beier
The Danish artist Nina Beier (b. 1975) is currently based in Copenhagen. In 2024, her work was featured in major solo survey exhibitions at Kiasma in Finland, the Tamayo Museum in Mexico, and CAPC in France.
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