Birgitte Sigmundstad

Birgitte Sigmundstad

Birgitte Sigmundstad leads the three day morning seminars at AMIFF 2025, and she presents her film THE NEW MUSEUM (110 min., 2025).

Bio:

Birgitte Sigmundstad lives in Oslo and works primarily with moving images. She is educated at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England and has had number of exhibitions and screenings in Norway and abroad. Sigmundstads films are essayistic and are tied to art, art history or historical events. Another recurring subject matter in Sigmundstads films is how art is used ideologically. In recent years Sigmundstad has worked with several films about the mediation of second world war in Norway. ‘What we talk about when talking about the war’ won the BKH photography prize at theThe Spring Exhibition at The Photographers Gallery in Oslo. ‘The new Museum’ an observational documentary about the National Museum in Oslo, was started in 2016 and finished in 2025. In 2012 Sigmundstad was granted the guaranteed income for artists by the Norwegian State.