Nellie Lindquist AKA Nelli Babetti

UPCOMING! Nellie Lindquist “Make the World” 24.10 – 14.12.2025 Exhibition opening: 23.10., 7 pm In 1944, the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA) created the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a guide for civilians in Nazi-occupied Europe to carry out minor acts of disruption. Nellie Lindquist draws on this manual in her animated video featuring moths as unwitting saboteurs, flitting through a dark space toward a beam of light, obscuring the unseen projection. Installed like a billboard, the work extends into the gallery with illuminated lightboxes resembling propaganda tools, their ghostly glow recalling screens or displays. Nellie Lindquist explores how narrative fiction shapes our understanding of real power structures, especially in a world marked by authoritarianism and violations of international law. The manual’s childlike simplicity contrasts with today’s complex intelligence operations, yet its subtle power remains. With her exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Nellie Lindquist suggests even small, seemingly naïve actions can disrupt oppressive systems. Nellie Lindquist’s residency and exhibition are funded by the Danish Arts Foundation. @nellibabetti @statenskunstfond

tbt Replica, 2025 Acrylic glass, aluminum profiles, LED, silicone, stickers, protective plastic cover 131x38x38 cm exhibited at Forked, group exhibition at @trust.support in Berlin September 2025

On this Sunday the 14th of December I'll be doing a guided tour in my exhibition Make the World at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, together with the other exhibiting artists as part of the closing event. @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien Closing event 14.12.2025, 2–7 pm (More info on their page) 4–5.30 pm
 Guided tour through the exhibitions The artists will be present to talk about their work Language: English Thank you so much to everyone who has been part of making the Make the World <3 Photo @galyafeierman

Last days of Make the World! On view at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien until sunday, 14.12.2025 Make the World, 2025 Video with sound, 5’15

excerpt from the ‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’ ‘In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, authored a remarkable document: the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a 40-page list of instructions for “simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.” […] Nellie Lindquist takes a most peculiar detail from this list of practical instructions as the starting point for her animated video, in which she employs a group of moths as the protagonists fulfilling the task of sabotage as laid out in the Field Manual.’ - from the exhibition text by Linnéa Bake @linnaeaeleonora Last week to catch my solo exhibition Make the World, on view until 14.12.2025 at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien supported by @statenskunstfond

“Dark silhouettes dissolve into the blueish-gray tinted panels, illuminated by the cold glare of the LED installed behind the glass. Reminiscent of a phone screen’s glow scrolling late at night or a deserted window display, Nellie Lindquist’s sculptures appear as ghostly objects: like props taken from a movie set, removed from the continuity of the filmic reality they help sustain." from the exhibition text by Linnéa Bake @linnaeaeleonora Exhibition view, Make the World, 2025 Photo CHROMA @chroma.studioberlin Lullabies, 2025 120x92,5x9 cm Acrylic glass, UV foil, LED lights, printed foil, window film Gleam and Glare, 2025 120x92,5x9 cm Acrylic glass, UV foil, LED lights, printed foil, window film On view at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien until 14.12.2025 as part of my solo exhibition Make the World, supported by @statenskunstfond

Lullabies, 2025 120x92,5x9 cm Acrylic glass, UV foil, LED lights, printed foil, window film Photo CHROMA @chroma.studioberlin On view until 14.12.2025 @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien as part of my solo exhibition Make the World, supported by @statenskunstfond

Make the World, 2025 video with sound, 5'15 installed on wooden structure 1st photo CHROMA @chroma.studioberlin On view until 14.12.2025 at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien as part of my solo exhibition Make the World, supported by @statenskunstfond

Make the World, 2025 Video with sound, 5’15 On view at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien until 14.12.2025

Thanks to Linnéa Bake @linnaeaeleonora for writing this exhibition text for Make the World. The show is still up for another month at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien

Make the World, 24.10.25-14.12.25 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Nellie Lindquist Today it is a little more than two weeks since the opening of my solo exhibition Make the World @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien Thank you to everyone that came to the opening. Thank you so much to Oliver @crunchy_influencer for making magical sound. Thank you to my little brother Axel who definitely is not on instagram for working with me on this animation. Thank you to Linnéa Bake @linnaeaeleonora for writing such a nice exhibition text. And thank you to the team and technicians at Bethanien. I wanted it to be like an old Disney VHS tape, scratchy, faded, no digital black. Looking forward to share more Credits: Edit, animation design and direction: Nellie Lindquist Animator: Axel Lindquist Sound design and score: Oliver Nehammer @crunchy_influencer Exhibition text: Linnéa Bake @linnaeaeleonora Last image credit from the opening @galyafeierman Exhibition supported by @statenskunstfond and Beckett Foundation