MEMBERS
Hilde SørstrømArt Critic
Hilde Sørstrøm – Art Critic
Hakapik magazine
Contact:
Position: Art Critic
E-mail: hildesorstrom@gmail.com
Work phone: +4797421927
Homepage: www.hakapik.no
Art Critic, Editor of the online art magazine Hakapik.no
Irene SnarbyDoctoral Research Fellow
Irene Snarby – Doctoral Research Fellow
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: irene.snarby@uit.no
Hanne Hammer StienProfessor of Art History (Group leader)
Hanne Hammer Stien – Professor of Art History
Research interests:
Museology, curatorial practices, photography, photography theory, visual culture, contemporary art, sámi, kven and greenlandic art and contemporary art that deals with the north.
Contact:
Position: Professor of Art History
E-mail: hanne.hammer.stien@uit.no
Work phone: +4777623361
Private phone: +47 95 75 55 86
Svein Aamoldemeriti
Svein Aamold – emeriti
Research interests:
Art, art history, art theory and aesthetics since around 1750. Indigenous art, especially Sámi. Indigenous methodology. Art and society/history, art and ecology, art and landscape, art in the north, sculpture and architecture.
Contact:
Position: emeriti
E-mail: svein.aamold@uit.no
Work phone: +4777646749
Private phone: 97783901
Elin Kristine HaugdalProfessor in Art History (Group leader)
Elin Kristine Haugdal – Professor in Art History
Research interests:
History and theory of architecture. Public art, monuments and monumentality. Sámi architecture, design and art. Landscape, built environment, ecology. Photography, visual culture and art theory.
Contact:
Position: Professor in Art History
E-mail: elin.haugdal@uit.no
Work phone: +4777620916
Marthe Tolnes FjellestadCurator Perspektivet Museum
Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad – Curator Perspektivet Museum
Perspektivet Museum
Contact:
Position: Curator Perspektivet Museum
E-mail: marthef@perspektivet.no
Homepage: www.perspektivet.no
Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad trained as an art photographer and holds an MA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice from Chelsea College of Art, London and an MA in Photographic History and Theory from De Montfort University, Leicester. She is the co-author, with Solveig Greve, of Starman – Sophus Tromholt Photographs 1882–1883 (2018). As curator at the University of Bergen Library, Fjellestad and Shannon Egan made Across the West Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, touring 2020–2024. Fjellestad is the curator at Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø.
Stine Agnete SandProfessor
Stine Agnete Sand – Professor
Research interests:
Sámi film, regional film- and television production
Media industries and production studies
Representations of indigenous peoples in media
Cultural policy and media policy
Journalism and PBS
Contact:
Position: Professor
E-mail: stine.sand@uit.no
Work phone: +4778450127
Lena GuddDoctoral Research Fellow
Lena Gudd – Doctoral Research Fellow
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: lena.gudd@uit.no
Svein Ingvoll PedersenDivision Director Museum Nord
Svein Ingvoll Pedersen – Division Director Museum Nord
Museum Nord, Vågan, Lofoten
Contact:
Position: Division Director Museum Nord
E-mail: svein.ingvoll.pedersen@gmail.com
Work phone: +4741624549
Homepage: www.museumnord.no
Svein Ingvoll Pedersen is division director of Museum Nord, Vågan in Lofoten. He holds an MA (cand.philol.) in Art History from the University of Oslo (1998). From 2014 to 2021 he was director of the North Norwegian Artists’ Center and the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF). He is the former director and artistic director of Tromsø Kunstforening.
Åsa StjernaPostdoctoral Researcher
Åsa Stjerna – Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Language and Culture, UiT
Contact:
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail: asa@asastjerna.se
Work phone: +46 70 730 65 99
Homepage: https://www.asastjerna.se/
Research interests: Artistic research, sound, listening, body, site-specificity, contemporary art.
Ecosophy, posthumanism, philosophy of immanence. Anthropocene, environment, Arctic, technology.
Monica GriniResearcher
Monica Grini – Researcher
University of Agder
Contact:
Position: Researcher
E-mail: monica.grini@uia.no
Hanna Horsberg HansenProfessor emeritus of Art- History at Academy of Arts
Hanna Horsberg Hansen – Professor emeritus of Art- History at Academy of Arts
Contact:
Position: Professor emeritus of Art- History at Academy of Arts
E-mail: hanna.horsberg.hansen@uit.no
Private phone: +4793446990
Katrine RugeldalDoctoral Research Fellow
Katrine Rugeldal – Doctoral Research Fellow
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: katrine.rugeldal@uit.no
Karolin TampereDoctoral Research Fellow
Karolin Tampere – Doctoral Research Fellow
The Arctic University Museum of Norway and Academy of Fine Arts, UiT
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: karolin.a.tampere@uit.no
Karolin Tampere is PhD Fellow in Artistic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts, UiT, Tromsø and The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen.
Espen JohansenDoctoral Research Fellow
Espen Johansen – Doctoral Research Fellow
Academy of Fine Arts, UiT, Tromsø and The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen
Contact:
Position: Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: espen.johansen@uit.no
Homepage: www.espenjohansen.art
Doctoral Research Fellow in Artistic Research
Gaute BarlindhaugAssistant Professor
Gaute Barlindhaug – Assistant Professor
Contact:
Position: Assistant Professor
E-mail: gaute.barlindhaug@uit.no
Work phone: +4777660562
Stephanie von SpreterPhD, Art History
Stephanie von Spreter – PhD, Art History
Research interests:
contemporary art, photography, women artists, Arctic, circumpolar North, Nordic contemporary Art, storytelling, research-based art, Anthropocene, feminist art history, decolonial art history, monuments, provenance research
Contact:
Position: PhD, Art History
E-mail: stephanie.von.spreter@uit.no