was born 1993 in Frankfurt am Main.
She is living and working as an artist, art mediator, curator and filmmaker in Hamburg.

Elisa Nessler has studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, Universität Hamburg 
and at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal.
She is holding a Master of Education in Fine Arts and Special Needs Education. 

Elisa is currently receiving the Frappant studio scholarship by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.


Contact: elisa.s.nessler@gmail.com


Upcoming
Residency Bibliothek Andreas Züst, Oberegg, 21.7.-31-8.25
Soloshow Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, 12.-14.09.25
Resdency & eyhibition FRISE Künstler:innenhaus, Hamburg, 07.-31.10.25


Selected group exhibitions
2025
Cine*Ami*es
ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer

On Festivity
ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer

2024
Notes of Absence 
Performance for Gesa Trochs The Shell’s Dresses at Studio Peragine, Hamburg

Hard to Swallow
M1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt

2023
No more lonely laundry
MOM art space, Hamburg
Curated by Cake & Cash Curatorial Collective

2022
Told you I‘ll be here forever
Frappant Galerie, Hamburg

Bataklık Brezo Heath Hede Heide Lande Ljunghed пустошь Vresovisko
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

2021
With Mosses, Airs and Bees,
We Dance Along With Trees
Forest near Nottuln
Curated by Francisca Markus

Future in progress
Galerie HFBK Hamburg

Flashes, Fires, Fluids
(Duo with Elina Saalfeld)
Frappant Galerie, Hamburg

2020
See you th3re - Dialoge zwischen Fenstern
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
Curated by Anne Meerpohl

Vielleicht träumen wir alle zusammen
Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg

Transparenzen
Galerie Genscher, Hamburg / SP2, Berlin

Passing a Window
Travessa do Jordao, Lissabon

2019
Shift - Beyond the binary
Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
Curated by POSSY

Große Pause
Galerie HFBK Hamburg

2018
Warten lernen
Vitrine 01, Berlin

Performancegarten IV
Rhenaniahaus, Köln

Drinking and Loitering
GFLK Halle Süd, Bad Tölz

Space & Hustlin
Gängeviertel Hamburg

Zukunftsvisionen 2018
Alter Güterbahnhof, Görlitz

T.R.I.P.
Ohlsdorfer Friedhof, Hamburg