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Nana Wolke examines how systems of access and visibility stage encounters with desire, power, and control. Extracted from raw video footage, her work spanning painting, sound and installation originates from prompted actions and unscripted events that unfold within environments marked by social, architectural, and psychological thresholds. Moving between spaces of privilege and marginality, Wolke’s works hold the impermanence of exposure and the thrill of concealment.
Wolke holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Solo exhibitions include Nothing Left to Want at NiCOLETTi, London; Breed at Management, New York; Wanda’s at NiCOLETTi, London; High Seat at Castor Gallery, London; 4:28 - 5:28 am at VIN VIN, Vienna; and Some Girls Wander by Mistake at Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza. Group exhibitions include Croire la peinture at Michel Rein, Paris; Painting, Photography, Painting at Olney Gleason, New York; Fragment II at Commune, Vienna, Austria; Over you/you at the 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; Daddy at G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig; Painters Painting Painters: A Study of Muses, Friends, and Companions at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon at Marlborough, London; and No Angels at Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin among others. Wolke was also selected for the 2021 cohort of Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
Nana Wolke, Independent 2025, Installation View
Nana Wolke, Nothing Left to Want, NiCOLETTi, London, 2025
Nana Wolke, Nothing Left to Want, NiCOLETTi, London, 2025
Nana Wolke, Nothing Left to Want, NiCOLETTi, London, 2025
Nana Wolke, Nothing Left to Want, NiCOLETTi, London, 2025
Breed, Installation View
Breed, Installation View
Breed, Installation View
Breed, Installation View
December 5, 2024
June 7, 2024
June 3, 2024
EDUCATION
2021
MFA, Goldsmiths, London, UK
2018
BA Painting, Academy of Fine Art and Design, Ljubljana, Sl
2017-18
Exchange student at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, DE, class of Michael Riedel
2017
BFA (Hons), Academy of Visual Arts - AVA, Ljubljana, Sl
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Management, New York (upcoming)
2025
Nothing Left to Want, Nicoletti, London, UK
2024
Breed, Management, New York, NY
2022
Wanda’s, NiCOLETTi, London, UK
High Seat, Castor Gallery, London, UK
2021
4:28 - 5:28 am, VIN VIN, Vienna, AU
Some Girls Wander by Mistake, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, IT
2019
The Naughty Corner, Stekleni Atrij Gallery, Ljubljana, Sl
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Painting, Photography, Painting, Olney Gleason, New York, US
Croire la peinture, Michel Rein, Paris, FR
Re/Enactments, Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2025
Fragment II, Commune, Vienna, AU
Signals Intelligence, Eyes Never Sleep, New York, US
2024
Open Globe, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, SL
U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, SL
Sequence/Fragment, NiCOLETTi, London, UK
Le vernissage, partie 1, Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, FR
2023
No Angels (curated by angels.sc3), Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE
Stilled Images, The Tube, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2022
Painters Painting Painters: A Study of Muses, Friends and Companions, Green Art Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
And this skin of mine, to live again a second time, GUTS Gallery, London, UK
Moonstruck Noon, Linseed Projects, Shaghai, CN
Created in Slovenia, Cukrarna Pallace, Ljubljana, SI
Fields of View, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA
Love is the Devil, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
2021
New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, UK
Me and My Friends, Korai Project Space, Nicoisa, CY
All That and a Bag of Chips, Des Bains, London, UK
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Reality Check, GUTS Gallery, London, UK
Ode to The Body, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK
Size Matters, Proposition Studios, London, UK
CONTRAPPUNTO, VIN VIN, Vienna, AU
Independent Biennial, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, SI
Home and Abroad, UGM Studio, Maribor, SI
Pigeon Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial, London, UK
2020
Now That’s What I Call Painting, Unit 4 Gallery, Hastings, UK
Home and Abroad, Galerija Kos, Ljubljana, SI
Vol I, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA
2019
Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Kiribati National Museum and Cultural Centre, Tarawa, KI
Apostasy II, Suite 301, New York, NY
2018
Apostasy, Living Gallery Outpost, New York, NY
AIR4, Ravnikar Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Daddy, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
OHO Young Visual Artist Award, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Goodbye Blue Sky, Fetti Amore Gallery, Leipzig, DE
Appointment 2.0 – Music Poster Exhibition, DobraVaga Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
2017
Embodiment, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
“It must be farther yet“, she sighed; “Then farther will I go“, DobraVaga Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
2016
In Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Vžigalica, Ljubljana, Sl
Malice in Wonderlands, 12 Star Gallery, London, UK
Intimate Spaces, AMU Gallery, Prague, CZ
Dialogue 28, Grand Depo, Pristina, XK
Tree, Jakopič Promenade in Tivoli Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015
White on White, 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Sl
Migration (and) Identities, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Sl
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
M Woods Museum, Beijing, China
SCoP - Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China,
Fondazione Coppola, Vinceza, Italy
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
Shortlisted for ACME Studio Award
Shortlisted for Almacantar Studio Award
2020
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, AU
Recipient of Ad Futura Scholarship, SI
2019
Recipient of Ministry of Culture of Slovenia’s Scholarship for Promising Young Artists, SI
Recipient of MOL Scholarship for Talented Students, Ljubljana, SI
2018
Shortlisted for OHO Young Visual Artist Award, Ljubljana, Sl
2017
DobraVaga Open Studio Residency, Ljubljana, SI
2016
Apprentice/Master, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL
Summer School as School, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Pristina, Pristina, KX
COMMISSIONED WORK
2015
Installation White on White, 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Sl
2014
Trubarjeva ulica: Vesoljna Ljubljana, Trubarjeva street, Ljubljana, SI
SELECTED BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2020
The Coloring Book, Mudec Museum, Milano, IT
2015
Over you/You, exhibition catalog, 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Sl (exh. cat.)
Nana Wolke is included in Croire la peinture at Michel Rein in Paris, curated by Guillaume Oranger
April 1, 2026
NADA Miami
Management is pleased to present a group presentation with works by Amorelle Jacox, Jaeheon Lee, Tim Brawner, Vladislav Markov, Anastasia Komar, Jura Shust, Nana Wolke, Tahir Karmali at NADA Miami, December 2 — 6
December 2, 2025
Nana Wolke is included in Only Ghosts Move Forward, 10 year anniversary exhibition at Suprainfinit in Bucharest
September 25, 2025
Nana Wolke: Nothing Left To Want opened at Nicoletti in London
September 19, 2025
Nana Wolke is included in 75 Years of New Contemporaries at Christies, London
June 12, 2025
Nana Wolke is included in The Radar at Plaster Magazine HQ, London
May 20, 2025
Independent
Management is pleased to present a solo booth with works by Nana Wolke in colllabortaion with Nicoletti, London, May 8 – 11
May 8, 2025
Nana Wolke is included in FRAGMENT II at Commune gallery, Vienna
April 17, 2025
Nana Wolke is included in Signals Intelligence at eyes never sleep, co-curated by Leslie Weissman, New York
March 29, 2025