Sabine Dahl Nielsen

Sabine Dahl Nielsen is assistant professor at University of Copenhagen and principal investigator of the research project Transcultural Contact Zones: Negotiating the role of art institutions in contemporary societies characterised by migration. (2023-2027). This project investigates the specific challenges that European art institutions currently face when they seek to address culturally pluralized publics in today’s migration-induced societies. Previously, Dahl Nielsen worked on the collective research project Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining identities, communities, and histories through art (2019-2022). This project engaged with the effects and affects produced by migration within the fields of art and curating and related to Dahl Nielsen’s previous exhibition-related research project entitled Transit: Mobility and Migration in the Age of Globalisation, (2015-2018). Dahl Nielsen has published in exhibition catalogues, anthologies and journals, and she has developed exhibitions, research, and educational programs at the intersection of curatorial practices and contemporary social urgencies including the struggles around migration, gentrification, decolonisation, and anti-racism.