Biography
Julie Nymann (b. 1987, Copenhagen) is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in immersive installations. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2024) and a Certificate in Photography from the International Center of Photography, New York (2012).
Based in Copenhagen, Nymann lived in New York, where she developed her artistic practice. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Vandrehallen Kunsthal (2024), The Royal Cast Collection at SMK National Gallery (2024), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2024), and The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2015). Her work has been reviewed in Berlingske, Art Matter, and Hyperallergic.
Nymann has received several awards, including the Maleren Helge Beck’s Memorial Scholarship (2020), and participated in residencies at the DEDI Art Symposium (2021-2022), BRIC Media Arts Fellowship (2016), and The Bronx Museum’s AIM program (2014). She is a board member of the Ordvrider Advisory Board and a role model for Styrk Dine Styrker, advocating for people with dyslexia.
Her dyslexia informs her immersive practice, driving her to develop a unique visual language that decodes her surroundings and creates sensory experiences that challenge a text-centric society.
Artist Statement
Julie Nymann’s work engages closely with the visual and aural environments she examines. Her immersive installations, created through film, photography, and sound in multichannel arrangements, often incorporate participatory practices to deepen engagement with the stories and places she explores.
Nymann facilitates bodily connections to the histories and communities she highlights, revealing hidden narratives and bringing them into collective awareness. Her process combines extensive research, collaboration with experts, and audiovisual studies through field recording and filming, creating a sensory backdrop for storytelling.
As someone with dyslexia, Nymann decodes her surroundings through sensory input—images, sounds, objects, and places—developing a unique artistic language rooted in observation and unwritten narratives. Through her work, she challenges societal norms, explores identity, resilience, and community, and advocates for a ‘proud dyslexic movement.
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Education
2024 Master of Fine Arts
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2012 One-Year Certificate in Photography
General Studies, International Center of Photography, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024-25 Sjöfartsmuseet, Göteborg
2024 Fordelene ved at være ordblind, exit, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2021 M/S Museet for Søfarts, Lungs of salt, Oceanside, Helsingør
Grevinde Danner by Julie Silbermann part of Collaborations by Tania & Thomas Asbæk, Copenhagen
2019 5-50 Gallery, The spectral within, New York
Touched by the ghost hosted by The Department of Management, CBS, The Royal Cast Collection, Copenhagen
2018 Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, What is Love?, Ismaning, Munich
2017 Bröhan-Museum, KUSS, Berlin
Biennale of Contemporary Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lebanon
2016 Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Copenhagen
Kanyon, Adimlar Sanata Çikiyor, Mixer Arts, Istanbul
2015 Ung Dansk 15´, curated Charlotte P. Schwartz, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Art in the Metro, Copenhagen Art week, Nørreport Metro Station, Copenhagen
Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennia, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
H20, curated by Friedrich Hadorn, filter4 culture voices affairs, Basel
Possibilities & Preferences, curated by Mehmet Kahraman, Mixer Arts, Istanbul
Take Ten, Rita K. Hillman Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York
Second Selves, curated by Alexis Avedisian, Distillery Gallery, Boston
2014 Paraflows - Intimacy, curated by Günther Friesinger, Künstlerhaus, Wien
2013 Licht Feld Biennale, curated by Friedrich Hadorn, Licht Feld Gallery, Basel
Selected Screenings
2019 New, Other, Odd filmfestival, Carlsberg City Gallery & Art Center, Copenhagen
2016 ArtBizTech - Technology & Art Symposium, Istanbul
BRIC Contemporary Art, Fellow screening, Brooklyn
2015 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille
Video Gecesi, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul
Videogramme No.6, The Low Museum, Atlanta
2014 Salonvideo, MAGMA Contemporary Medium, Romania
2013 Winter Series, Newfilmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Projections, Nitehawk Cinema, New York
2012 Anti Liburudenda, Bideodromo 2012, International Experimental Film, Bilbao
Talk
2024 Debate, Fordelene ved at være ordblind, part of exit, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2023 Sound and Learning, mini-conference, Sound Art Hub, Struer
2021 Film lectures on Lungs of salt, M/S Maritime Museum, Helsingør
Debate on the possibilities of the living image, New Other Odd, Juxtapose, Aarhus
2018 KBH Film & Fotoskole, Copenhagen
2013 Pratt Institute, Photography MFA, New York
Selected Reviews, articles, interviews
2025 Eurowoman: Nok kan du ikke læse ord, men du kan læse verden
2024 Art Matter, Unge Kunstnerstemmer: Julie Nymann
Berlingske, Julie Nymann is proud to be dyslexic - it has its advantages
KVUC, Nyt lydkunstværk sætter fokus på fordelen ved at være ordblind
2018 Weekendavisen, review by Mette Sandbye
2015 Magasinet Kunst, review by Maria Grzywacz; Politiken, review by Peter Michael Hornung
Selected Publications & Catalogs
2025 Fordelene ved at være ordblind, Alinea, educational material for elementary schohool
2021 M/S Maritime Museum, OCEANISTA, catalog, Helsingør
2018 Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, What is Love, catalog, Ismaning, Munich
2017 Bröhan-Museum, KUSS, catalog, Berlin
2015 Young Danish Photo ´15, catalog, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Bronx Calling: Third AIM Biennia, catalog, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Awards
2022 DEDI Art Symposium, The Tale of Two Cities, Egypt to Denmark, 2021-2022
2020 Make Sound Residency, Inter Art Center, Malmø
Maleren Helge Beck’s Mindelegat
2016 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, BRIC Contemporary Art, New York
Residency Program, The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
IAP, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
2014 AIM, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Juried Fellowship, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca
2013 First prize, Walking in the mind, Bideodromo 12, Experimental Film Festival, Bilbao
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Vi er stolte ordblinde, Kunsthal Vandrehallen, Hillerød
2021 The house that whispers, The Royal Casting Collection, SMK, Copenhagen
2014 A Song for Echo, Museum Of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium, Boston