Nanna Melland
(She/her)
Address: Frysja kunstnersenter, Kjelsåsveien 145A, 0491 Oslo
Floor: 2.
Room number: 2025
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Sculptures in bee wax, jewellery, installations, enthusiasm, happiness, madness, the world, madness – the enormous life interest me and is mirrored in my art.
Casting, soldering, lasercut, beekeeping, jewellery, sculpture, installation
Scream, Nanna Melland, Bee wax, 60cmX25cm, 2022
Madonna, Nanna Melland, beewax, 60cmX25cm, 2022
Planned projects and exhibitions
I work to bring the forest into my jewellery art. The forest contains interesting and complex systems, between trees and mushrooms, insect, animals, innumerable organisms. It is exciting and important to care about our forest.
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Nanna Melland (born. 1969, Oslo, Norway) is a diploma and Meister student from the Academy of the Fine arts in Munich. She received a Candidata Magister degree from the University of Oslo in Social Anthropology and History of Religion and is a journeyman in goldsmithing. In 2017 Melland was a guest professor at Burg Gibichenstein in Halle, Germany and is now situated in Oslo, Norway. In 2008 Melland received the Norwegian Craft main price. Melland works in different materials, and a wide variety of subjects. Inter – Uterine – Devices (IUD`s), nail in gold, cast pig`s hearts, orchids in lead, aluminum airplanes and atom bomb rings in tin, hence achieves – albeit paradoxically – a coherent whole. Her work is represented in Nordenfjeldske Arts and Craft museum in Trondheim, Norway.
Melland has taken part in many groups and solo exhibitions in museum and galleries around the world, like The Pinakotek Moderne in Munich, The Schmuck fair, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnheim, The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Jewellery Museum in Pforzheim, New York Museum of Arts and Design and The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand.