Hanne Hammer Stien

Hanne Hammer Stien

Hanne Hammer Stien is an art historian and curator. She is Professor of Art History at the Academy of Art, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, where she teaches in the BA and MA programmes in Fine Art and supervises PhD students in Art History.

Stien has published widely on contemporary northern art and visual culture, museology, and the history and theory of photography. She co-leads the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) and holds a number of roles in academia and the art world. Among other positions, she serves on the artistic advisory board for Oslo’s new Government Quarter, is an associate editor of Curator: The Museum Journal and chairs the board of Lásságámmi.

Her writing and curatorial work includes exhibitions and texts on Kåre Kivijärvi, Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár/Iver Jåks, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Joar Nango, Inuuteq Storch, Katja Aglert, and Inger Sitter.