Members of the network

NETWORK FOR GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN NORDIC ART MUSEUMS

Members of the network

Network members

Tone Lyngstad Nyaas is an art historian and works as a curator at Haugar Vestfold Art Museum in Tønsberg. She has curated a variety of theme shows such as Pubertet (2008), Antarctica (2009) and Munch by Others (2013). She also has curated exhibitions with international artists such as Rose Wylie and Tracey Emin.

Her releases embrace mainly Norwegian and international contemporary art, including Munch by Others (2013), Kjell Torriset (2012) and Rose Wylie (2013). She is a member of the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association and awarded for outstanding gender research at the University of Oslo in 2000.

Else-Brit Kroneberg holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Bergen with the dissertation Picture and Object. Three contextualizations of Torill Nøst's photo-based works. She has been employed as curator at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum since 2003. She works primarily with exhibition production and collection managemnet.

She has curated several collective exhibitions and solo exhibitions in recent years where gender and cultural diversity have been central. Among other things, The Beginning Is Always Today. Contemporary Feminist Art In Scandinavia (2013), Museets samling 2013-14 (2013) focusing on gender representation in the collection of the Southern Art Museum and 22 Women. Alfredo Jaar (2014). She has participated in several publications, both as copywriter and editor and guest lecturer at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Eli Okkenhaug is curator at the CODE Art Museums in Bergen, where she has, among other things, curated the exhibitions Sükran Moral My Pain My Rebellion (2015), KODESamtid Jeg (2014) and Desire (2012). She was also co-curator of Real Life Stories (2010), an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art. All exhibitions where gender and identity have been central.

Eli Okkenhaug is also behind the assembly of KODESamtid, a presentation of works from the collection found on KODE2. She is currently working as project manager for the new assembly of the China Collection, which opens on KODE1 in 2017.

Janeke Meyer Utne holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Bergen in 1999. She is a conservator (NMF), employed at Lillehammer Art Museum, where she has curated a dozen separate and group exhibitions.

Utne has been editor of a number of publications, like Crispin Gurholt. Live Photo Lillehammer (2012), Thousands of threads. Storytelling through textile (2013), Dialogue 1961. Arnold Haukeland and Jakob Weidemann (2016) and Slow Pictures (2016) where she has also written artistic articles. She has been in a number of boards and fellowships in addition to examination work for UiB.

Randi Godø holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Bergen 2000. She is a curator of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Godø has wide museum expertise and works especially with contemporary art.

She has made a series of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art such as Stir Heart. Women Moving Art I, Goddesses. Women moving art II (2010) (co-curator), Snorre Ytterstad. Squared Target (2011), Absolute Installation (2012), Camilla Løw. The Space of Shape-Time (2012), Aase Texmon Rygh. Modernism forever (2013) and Anna-Eva Bergman. Graphic universe (2015). Godø has written about a number of artists like Inghild Karlsen, Camilla Løw, Snorre Ytterstad, Aase Texmon Rygh, Anna-Eva Bergman and Toril Johannessen.

Vibece Salthe holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Bergen. Salthe is employed as a conservator at Stavanger Art Museum, where she has worked with a number of exhibitions.

Among the latest exhibitions she has curated is Through the Woods - Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen (2015) and Intimate and Monumental - Jan Groth and Steingrim Laursen's Collection (2015-16).

Lene Burkard is Senior Researcher and Artistic Advisor. She is a retired museum inspector and deputy governor for 25 years for Brandts in Odense, Denmark. Among the more than 100 art exhibitions she has curated, several have been particularly concerned with feminist aesthetics and problematization of internationalism and globalization in contemporary art: Dialogue with the Second (1994) Girlpower and Boyhood (2006), Patterns: Between Arabic and Objects (2001) and New Internationalism (2003) (Primarily Art from South America and South Africa), Border Crossing (2012) (International works of Video Art on the subject). In addition to solo shows with Marina Abramovic, Helen Chadwick, Julie Roberts and Phoebe Washburn.

Burkard was commissioner of the Danish Pavilion in Venice in 1997 and received the N.L.Høyen medal for 2005, for example. his work of visualizing female artists. From 2008 - 2011 research lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark. Burkard has written many articles and catalog texts. She is a member of a number of boards such as the Danish Art Critic Society and Kunsthøjskolen Ærø. Works on a book about curation.

Birgitte Anderberg is a museum inspector and researcher at the National Museum of Art in Copenhagen from 2007 and has also been a member of the Danish National Arts Fund's procurement and literacy committee for visual arts and art in public spaces 2014-15.

She is also a member of the Danish Ministry of Culture's visionary panel for younger researchers since 2013, as well as the EAM - Europeam Network of Avantgarde Studies since 2010. She is affiliated with the Danish Museum of Art, Georg Brandes School of Danish Literature and Visual Arts and Arts and Culture, Copenhagen University as PhD fellow 2004-2007. She previously worked as a museum inspector at Arken (2003) and Ordrupgaard (1999-2002).

Recently, she has curated the exhibitions Bjørn Nørgaard - Remodeling the World again again at the CAFAM (Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum), Beijing 2014 and What's Happening? Danish avantgarde and feminism 1965-75, the Danish National Museum of Art, Copenhagen 2015.

Charis Gullickson holds a master's degree in art history from UiT-Norway's Arctic University and holds a BA in Art History from Montana State University, Bozeman. She is a conservator at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she has lived in Tromsø since 2004. She specializes in contemporary art from the circumpolar areas and has curated several exhibitions in the theme, while contributing to exhibit catalogs.

She curated, among others, Iver Jåks: Reconstructed at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in 2010 as well as Sámi Stories: Art and Identity of an Arctic People, which was shown in New York and Anchorage in 2014-15. In addition, she has had the main responsibility for the following exhibitions / accompanying publications: Paralleller (2011), Tech-Stiles: Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Ingrid Aarset and Jon Pettersen (2012), and Extensions: Inger Johanne Grytting (2015).

Sigrun Åsebø is a PhD and associate professor of art history at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen. Her research is concentrated on feminist theory and historiography, gender and sexuality in visual arts, and postcolonial and transnational perspectives.

Among the publications are: The Femininity Room and the Women's Body Borders: Reading the history of art with AK Dolven and Mari Slaattelid (PhD thesis 2011), articles on feminism and art exhibitions ("From Women's Exhibition to Gender Problems - and Back Again"? About four art exhibitions made in connection with the Norwegian voting jubilee 2013 "from 2015), articles on contemporary art and" Norwegian "(Traveling Huts and Invading Spaceships), 2014 Marianne Heske, Tiril Schrøder, and Norwegian Romantic Landscapes, and" The Female Body, Landscape and National Identity " and 2012), as well as more catalog texts.

Åsebø is also an art critic, and is one of the initiators of the Network for Gender Equality and Diversity in the Art Museum.

Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen is a PhD from Aarhus University and associate professor of art history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim since 2004. Her research focuses on Nordic art in the 20th century and contemporary art, feminist perspectives on art history, postcolonialism, visual culture and globalization and technology in art.

Angkjær Jørgensen has written about gender and feminist perspectives in many different contexts. Her publications include Kropslig kunst (Copenhagen 2007), chapters in Globalizing Art (Aarhus 2011), From Sign to Signal (Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 2012) and Gender Negotiations (Oslo 2013). In 2015, together with visual artist Birgitte Ejdrup Kristensen, she was curator of the exhibition WOMEN FORWARD! at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, as well as the digital release with the same title.

She is currently co-editor of an anthology of Sami art, published at Aarhus University Press in 2017. She is working on a book about women in Danish modernism.

New members

New members

  • Patrik Steorn, The Thiel Gallery, Stockholm
  • Linda Fagerström, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar
  • Katarina Macleod, Södertörn University, Stockholm
  • Anu Allas, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
  • Kati T. Kivinen, Kiasma, Helsinki
  • Julie Rokkjær Birch, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, Aarhus
  • Margrete Abelsen, Babel Art Space, Trondheim
  • Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg

Images of the network

Network meeting in Stavanger

Stavanger Art Museum, 2017

Network members at the gathering in June 2017, Stavanger Art Museum

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