Nanna Melland (b. 1969) is a diploma and Meister student from the Academy of the Fine Arts in Munich. She received a Candidata Magister degree from the University of Oslo in Social Anthropology and History of Religion and is a journeyman in goldsmithing. In 2017 Melland was a guest professor at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany and is now based in Oslo, Norway. In 2008 Melland received the Norwegian Craft main prize. Melland works in different materials, and a wide variety of subjects. Intrauterine-Devices (IUDs); nails in gold; cast pigs’ hearts; orchids in lead; aluminum airplanes; miniature atomic bomb ring in tin; sculptures in beeswax and brooches from Polypore Fungus thus achieving – albeit paradoxically – a coherent whole.
Her work is represented in Nordenfjeldske Arts and Crafts Museum in Trondheim, Norway. Melland has taken part in many groups and solo exhibitions in museum and galleries around the world, like the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, The Schmuck Fair, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Jewellery Museum in Pforzheim, New York Museum of Arts and Design and The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand.
