Nina Backman
Nina Backman is a Finnish artist, performer, curator and the founder of the Silence Project. She was born in Helsinki and originally studied Theatre Design at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts in the UK.
The hallmarks of silence weave through Backman’s art leaving traces of a veiled depth. In challenging the space between installation, performance and visual art, silence is integral to the artistic process. For Backman, silence brings together different but related elements within a conceptual frame, in turn creating new dialogues. These set out to invite critical reflection, to expose layers otherwise unnoticed, to challenge perceptions as yet outside our realm of experience.
She has collaborated with a wide spectrum of creative disciplines from film, theater, photography to design. She currently lives and works in Berlin
Nina Backman is a Finnish artist, performer, curator and founder of the Silence Project. She was born in Helsinki and originally studied Theatre Design at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts in the UK. She works in the space between, installation, performance and visual art. Her work documents the complicity of human conditions whereby the viewer is invited to reflect on aspects of life concepts, identities and values. Her work has been exhibited at Malmö Museum in Sweden, Gallen – Kallela Museum in Finland, Punkt Ø Galleri F 15 in Norway, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, ANBC – The Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin among others. She has collaborated with a wide spectrum of creative disciplines from film, theater, photography to design and collaborated with companies and individuals such as Art Council of UK, Liverpool City Council, The Future Laboratory London among others. Nina Backman is the artist behind the performance piece Aino and the Silence Meal. Silence Meal´s have now taking place in Berlin, Helsinki, Shanghai, Brussels, Reykjavik, Stockholm and Oslo.
