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It is our pleasure to announce Ida Nissen as the fellow for the Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) 2024. This scholarship, which was initiated by the Kulturvermittlung Steiermark in collaboration with Camera Austria in 2022, is organized for the third time now, with the aim of offering artists a stay in Graz in order to use Camera Austria’s extensive research library, work on existing and/or new projects, and get to know the local art and culture scene.

Ida Nissen was selected from nearly 200 artists who applied for the corresponding call announced in the spring of 2024. Since mid-September 2024, she is in Graz for four weeks to continue her ongoing work, returning to the photographic image’s unsettled position in the periphery of language, as something continuously ambiguous. Questions weave into the process of making images, the tension stretching across surface and illusion, and the interval between narrative, association, and the nameless.

Her practice focuses on analogue photography, photograms, processes in the color darkroom, layering, and installation. Her recent body of work, like the ongoing work complex SCRIM (2019–ongoing), consists of collages from photographic paper which she exposes to light in the color darkroom, cut out with scissors and layered into collages.

—“Cutting is a way of thinking about possibilities of the image in between figure and ground, shape and non-shape, meaning and non-meaning. Positives and negatives are equally treated and such the cutouts allow possibilities for new forms and combinations to arise, building a material grammar,” Ida Nissen states.

In her presentation on October 1, 2024, at 5 p.m., the atist will present work in progress developed during the residency, as well as reflections on her research in the library and archive of Camera Austria.

Ida Nissen studied at the Danish School of Art Photography, Copenhagen (DK), and at the Zokei University in Tokyo (JP), she holds a BFA in Photography from the Valand Academy, Gothenburg (SE), and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London (GB). Her recent exhibitions include Boot (Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough, GB, 2023), Bloom (Södra Änggården, Gothenburg, 2022), Boot (Terrace Gallery, London, 2022), among others. Her recent artist book SCRIM was published by Lodret Vandret (Copenhagen) in 2022. Most recently, she was awarded the Develop Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England (2024).

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