Exhibition | Nele Brönner

Nele Brönner is a visual artist and writer from Berlin. She is a writer-in-residence in Gröndal‘s House in Reykjavík in September 2020, hosted by the Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature and Goethe-Institut. Come and take a look at her artwork in the exhibition space on the 2nd floor, next to the Children's department. See opening hours here...

Nele Brönner was born in Marburg, Germany. She studies visual communications at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She still lives in Berlin and works as a children‘s book author and illustrator of children‘s books and comics. In 2015 she won the Serafina Prize for children‘s literature and in 2019 she was awarded the Gold Medal of the prestigious book design competition by Stiftung Buchkunst for her book Begel. der Egel. Among her other books are Frosch Will Auch (2020), Zitronenkind (2020), also published in English as Lemonchild, Das Tigerei (2018) and the books Das Monströse and Affenfalle from 2015.

During her stay in Reykjavík, Nele works on her art in Gröndal‘s House, the former home  of writer and visual artist Benedikt Gröndal. You can follow her art and blog on her website www.nelebroenner.com

Further information:
Kristín Viðarsdóttir, verkefnastjóri | Reykjavík bókmenntaborg UNESCO
kristin.vidarsdottir@reykjavik.is