about

 

In her work, Nora Hansen uses fantastical, speculative, and other figurative forms to explore the world as a densely layered medium. The resulting perspectives invite viewers to actively engage with their own narrative consciousness, the lens through which we experience and construct both ourselves and our surroundings.

Nora completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as Meisterschülerin under Rosemarie Trockel and has received scholarships from Kulturamt Köln, Kunststiftung NRW and Ministry of Culture, NRW, Germany.

Recent presentation of Nora´s work include not dying, Centre for Literature (Münster, DE, 2025), Half-Light, KW-Institut for contemporary art (Berlin, DE, 2024), I am the House, I said, Omstand – Space for Contemporary Art (Arnheim, NL, 2024), Subversive Threads, Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein (Neuwied, DE, 2024), Blue Binding Ribbons, Temporary Gallery (Cologne, DE, 2024), Antigone Pitched, Ballhaus Ost (Berlin, DE, 2023), Subconscious, Artothek – Raum für Junge Kunst (Cologne, DE, 2023) and Echo Chamber, Avlskarl Gallery (Kopenhagen, DK, 2023).

Further exhibitions include L‘intrus REDUX, Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, DE, 2019), Nora Hansen & Saemundur Thor Helgason, Lady Helen (London, UK, 2019), Heaven, Bob´s Pogo Bar, KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin, DE, 2017), What are you willing to do?, At7 (Amsterdam, NL, 2017), Advancing Together, Changing Room (London, UK, 2017) and Das Fest, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, DE, 2014).

Nora lives and works in Cologne.