Born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, USA

Tone Olaf Nielsen is primarily known for her work as an independent curator and interdisciplinary projects like Democracy When!? Activist Strategizing in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, 2002) and Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark (different locations in the city of Aarhus, Denmark, 2004). She characterizes her curatorial practice as activist, and her strongly politicized projects explore the possibilities of using the exhibition medium as an activist tool for social change.

Nielsen is also active as a visual artist within the collective, Goll & Nielsen, which she co-founded with visual artist, Morten Goll, in 1998. Goll & Nielsen’s practice is focused on mobilizing communities and their most recent projects count The Evening School (Gallery Signal, Malmoe, Sweden, 2001); OIENL (The Organization for Information on the Effects of Neo-Liberalism) (Efterårsudstillingen 2002, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, 2002); and Niagara Falls Artist Host Program (presented in two parts at SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, 2004, and at Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2004).

In the spring of 2005, Nielsen founded the curatorial platform, Kuratorisk Aktion, together with curator Frederikke Hansen. Since August 2005, Kuratorisk Aktion have been employed at NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, where they have just realized the comprehensive project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (Reykjavik, Iceland; Nuuk, Greenland; Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands; and Rovaniemi, Finnish Sápmi, 2006). Kuratorisk Aktion’s employment at NIFCA will end in December 2006, upon which the collective hopes to establish a research institute for long-term aesthetic, theoretical, and activist interrogations into global socio-political issues.