Inga Gerner Nielsen is an artist, artistic researcher and performer working between Brussels and The West Coast of Denmark. She initiated the project In The Mirror of Care Work with a local nursing school when realising how much her one-to-one performances draw on the physical and social skills she once developed as an ”ufaglig”, or “non-professional” helper in the elderly home where she worked throughout her years of studying sociology. She hatched artistically as a performer within the fictional parallel worlds of the performance-group SIGNA during the early 2000s, and then as co-founder of the Copenhagen-based activist performance-collective Club de la Faye (2007) and a little later the smaller bureau, Fiction Pimps (2010, DK). In her solo-works she continued to explore the subtle nuances of interaction in performance installations within art spaces and venues such as Sixty Eight Art Institute (2014, DK), KUNSTEN Museum of Art in Aalborg (2018, DK) and in The Pool SB34 (2022, BE) in Brussels where she opened THiS INSTiTUTE, a structure by which she summons the sensual mode of her thinking. - An immaterial studio, she conjured as part of her artistic research in the post-graduate program A.pass (2022, BE).
