Rodin’s work may include print, photography, sculpture or large-scale installation but the subject always returns to the painterly mark. Painting, with its historical and physical constraints harbours such myriad possibilities that Rodin finds resonances with the complexities of the human brain or the universe. And Painting is taken as matter for scientific study in this practice, much as the brain is the object of study in neuroscience or the universe is the matter of study in astrophysics, two subjects in which Rodin has previously done research and published in. Tongue-in-cheek, Rodin exploits the absurd, surprising and sometimes beautiful results of applying pseudo-scientific protocols to the making of paintings. Science is ineffectual as an original mode of expression but supplies a rich source of material and methods: numbering, archiving, imaging devices such as microscopes or x-ray viewing boxes, labelling, ordering, systematic analysis. As object of study, painting is both held at arms length as problematic, and indulged in, up close and personal. The process can be cold, calculated and repetitive but deals with a visceral desire for the material. Rodin doesn’t believe in Free Will but celebrates the infinite permutations possible with coloured pigment and binder from which artistic originality continuously emerges. Though she can be cruel in mimicking, copying, sampling, cutting, punching and obliterating both her own marks and those of others, she does so with a quiet confidence in the fundamental and immutable value of Painting, as a vehicle for touch.

 

Born Nina Arnth-Jensen, 7th of October 1972 in Copenhagen. Danish National.
Married with three children, born 2003, 2006 and 2008.

2009-2011
2004-2008
2002-2004
2001-2002
1994-1999
1994
1993
1990-1993
1990

MA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
BA Painting, Camberwell College, University of the Arts London
Part-time Foundation. Chelsea College of Art & Design
Short courses in illustration and life drawing at Chelsea
D.Phil in Neurophysiology (cellular electrophysiology and imaging), Oxford
Kunsthoejskolen (residential art school), Holbaek, Denmark, spring term.
Classical Art Studies at Scuola Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, 3 months
B.Sc. Physics (honours) Imperial College, London (dissertation in Astrophysics)
French Bacalaureate (sciences), Mention Tres Bien.

2017
2016
2012-now
2012-now
2002-2004
1999-2001
1999

Co-founder of Tektrope residency (Trelex Model), Istanbul
Co-founder and director of The Poetry Garret Residency (Trelex Model), Paris
Co-founder and director of The Trelex Amazon Residency (Trelex Model), Peru
Founder and director of The Trelex Residency, Switzerland
Founded a small web design company, www.pumpkinsoup.net
Postdoctoral Research position, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich
Taught Neuronal Imaging, Cold Spring Harbour short course

Multiplications, solo show, Envar Studios, Nyon, Switzerland
Caviar, Skin and Unsolved Systems, solo show, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin
Photospiel, group show, Karl Oskar Gallery, Germany
Elles disent qu’elles sont peintres, group show (curator), Fondation Esp’Asse, Switzerland
Abstract Killer Women, group show, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Nomenclature of Colours, group show, Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, London
Kif-Kif. Maximiliaan Fine Arts, solo show, Maastricht, Netherlands
Categories of near-infinite permutations, solo show, Andata/Ritorno, Laboratoire d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
You are not a real painter, she said. solo show, National Arts Club, New York, USA.
Editions, group show, Tripp Gallery, London
Duplicata, solo show and symposium, Rye Creative Centre, Rye, UK
Collaborate!, group show, Oriel Sycarth Gallery, Glyndwr University, Wales, UK
Pretty Peeved, Unit 3 Project Space, Bromley-by-Bow, London, UK
Equivalence, group show (curator), Richmond University, London
'Book art in art practice' Summer Retreat. Co-organised with Estelle Thompson. At The Trelex Residency, Switzerland.
It's very quiet here, group show (as participant and curator), Gowen Contemporary Gallery, Geneva
Taking Stock, solo show, The Trelex Residency, Switzerland
Trelex Arts, group show, Trelex, Switzerland
Variable Control / Control Variable, The Center for Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
Making Space, Wobrun Research Centre, UCL, London
Q-Art London, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Dans cette Maison, Exposition Evenement de Creations Contemporaines, Paris
The Old Methods Room, Slade MA Degree Show, London
Moreover, UCL Art Collections, The Strang Print Room, London
Surplus to Requirements? Woburn Research Centre, UCL, London
Colour, Bedlam Gallery, Brunel University London
Flash, Bang, Wallop - Slade5@Testbed1, London
Black and White Flower Painting, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London
Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Transfer: a Slade/Strang Collaboration, Strang Collection, UCL, London
Artists in Residence - 200 years of art and design, Heals Flagship Store, London
Windows Gallery, Canary Wharf, London
Candid Art Fair, Islington
Graduation Show at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London
One-night solo show in the Nash Room, ICA, London
Digest This... group show, Red Gate Gallery, London
Mercury Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, The Hospital, London
Digest This..., group show, Menier Gallery, London
Drawing on each other, group show, Nanospace, Centre for Recent Drawing (www.c4rd.org.uk)

2006
1994-1998
1992

Shortlisted for the Nationwide Mercury Art Prize
Wellcome Trust Prize Student
Erasmus Grant

2010
2009

Solo exhibition as ‘invitée d’honneur de la journée des arts de Nyon’ (postponed to 2021)
Large-scale installation for the 9th floor boardroom of the University of the Arts London
Large-scale site-specific installation for the reception of the University of the Arts London
Numerous private commissions

2015
2013
2008
2002
1993

A manifesto against collaboration. Essay commissioned for Collaborate! Exhibition catalogue. printed by JKL Books
Thoughts on painting. Essay commissioned for Head to Head Exhibition catalogue. printed by JKL Books
Art as a process of delimitation: essentialist and non-essentialist approaches, Philosophy in Art (R. Osborne, Ed.) Zidane Press
Cooperation between independent hippocampal synapses is controlled by glutamate uptake, Nature Neurosciecne 5, p. 325-331. Co-authors: D. Jabaudon & M. Scanziani.
Statistics and properties of HII regions in NGC6814 (spiral galaxy), Astronomical Journal 100, Co-authors: J.H. Knapen (1st author), J.Cepa, J.F.Beckman.

July 2017
June 2017
April 2017
December 2015

July 2015
July 2015
2015
2014

March 2014
March 2014
2011

Art and Science: value propositions'. Young Global Leaders Week-End, Marlow, UK
Art, Science and Philosophy: what is it that I do?' Webster University, Geneva
Philosophical considerations on Art and Science’, Praksis, Oslo, Norway
Neuroscience and philosophy of aesthetics: from the science of voice to the art of music, Neuroscience and Voice, 6th COST 2103 related symposium, Copenhagen
Duplicata: Reproducibility and empathy in Science, Philosophy and Art, The School Creative Center, Rye, UK
Originality and Reproduction in Painting - conceptual work' Rye Creative Center, UK
Considerations to approaching Artistic Collaborations - notes from The trelex Residency, Richmond University, London
The London Art School Crit - how constructive criticism can promote artistic development, presentation and one day workshop, Khin Zaw Latt Gallery, Yangoon, Myanmar
The Trelex Residency: a social experiment in trust and public engagement, University of Porto, Portugal
Art and Science in the work of Nina Rodin, University of Porto, Portugal
Complexity in Neuroscience and in Painting, Slade, UCL, London.