Nanna Debois Buhl | Aarhus Kunsthal

Kunsthal Aarhus presents Nanna Debois Buhl’s new artworks related to her practiced-based PhD project Picture the Sky.

Buhl developed her PhD project Picture the Sky: Cosmic Code, Images, and Imaginaries at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University, Denmark and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (2019-2024). Throughout the project Buhl investigates larger narratives of the cosmos by considering the image as ‘a tool to map and speculate with’, as she puts it herself.

The exhibition features a series of photogravures, A Cosmic Roar, 2024. The four black and white prints are based on computer-generated 3D visualisations of dust grains from meteorites. These dust grains contain particles that are more than 4.5 billion years old – older than our solar system.

With a focus on material and texture of various imaging media the exhibition explores well-known histories of space travel, computation, art, and astronomy through prints, photographs, computer algorithms, video, and weaving.

The exhibition Picture the Sky at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark runs until 7 April 2024