Fagpersoner som arbeider med utstillingsproduksjon ved ulike museer og gallerier deler sine refleksjoner om hva en utstilling kan være, hvorfor vi trenger utstillinger i dag og hva formålet med dem kan være.

De siste seks årene har Kulturhistorisk museum, ROM for kunst og arkitektur og Universitetsmuseet i Bergen samarbeidet om å utforske overordnede spørsmål knyttet til utstillingsproduksjon. De tidligere seminarene har fokusert på ulike temaer knyttet til utstillingsproduksjon, som historie, utstillingsarkitektur, gjenstander, publikum, lokaliteter og metodikk – temaer som er relevante for alle som er involvert i utstillingsproduksjon i mindre eller større institusjoner, som museer og gallerier. Denne gangen, på det syvende seminaret i serien, inviterer vi fagfolk innen kunst, arkitektur, museer og forskning til å dele sine refleksjoner om hvorfor vi trenger utstillinger, hvorfor vi lager dem og hva formålet med dem kan være. Under arrangementet inviterer vi publikum til å delta i samtalene. Sammen håper vi å utforske vår forståelse av utstillingskvalitet, og hvordan utstillinger kan bidra til et bredere samfunnsmessig behov for utforskning, meningsskaping og endring.

11:00–11:35: Introduksjon
Moderator: Karoline Kjesrud, kurator for middelaldersamlingen, Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo

Velkomsthilsen ved Aud V. Tønnessen, museumsdirektør, Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo
Bakgrunn og samarbeid ved Björn Nilsson, Gjertrud Steinsvåg, Karoline Kjesrud

11:35–11:45: Kaffe og frukt

11:45–12:30: Del 1: (Hvorfor) trenger vi utstillinger?
Moderator: Björn Nilsson, instituttleder for kulturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen

Refleksjoner ved:
Hanne Hammer Stien, professor i kunsthistorie ved Kunstakademiet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Birgitte Sigmundstad, kunstner, Oslo
Lin Stafne-Pfisterer, senior kurator for formidling, Nasjonalmuseet

13:00–13:30: Lunsj

13:30–15:00: Del 2: Mål med utstillinger – Hva vil vi formidle til publikum?
Moderator: Gjertrud Steinsvåg, direktør for ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo

Refleksjoner ved:
Toril Rokseth, avdelingsleder for utstilling, formidling og publikumstjenester, Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo
Nkule Mabaso, direktør, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Eli Kristine Økland Hausken, avdelingsleder for forskning og forskningsformidling, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen

15:15: Takk for i dag og farvel!

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. ‘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.

Lin Stafne-Pfisterer is Cand.philol. in Art History from UiO (2004). She is Senior Curator Education at the National Museum where she has worked since 2013. "Gothic Modern. From darkness to light" (2025), "Else Hagen. Between people" (2024-25) and "Thorvald Hellesen. Pioneering Cubism" (2023) are the lasts exhibitions she worked on. Audience co-creation, participation and reflection have been key elements in her curatorial work. 

Eli Kristine Økland Hausken, (b. 1977) is a folklorist and head of the Department for Research and Science Communication at the University Museum, University of Bergen. Since 2006, she has worked systematically to shift the museum’s outreach towards the research process and was deeply involved in the renovation and development of a new museum concept for Norway’s oldest listed museum building from 1865, the Natural History Museum at Muséplassen 3, where she was responsible for audience engagement and exhibition curation. She served as project leader for the Arena for Research and Science Communication, through which the University of Bergen expanded the museum’s mandate to also communicate the university’s broader research environments through museological formats in the renovated museum. The museum project has won several awards due to its holistic understanding of its societal mission, and its innovative communication that welcomes the public to an experience of knowledge without breaking ties to history and traditions.

Hanne Hammer Stien is an art historian and curator. She is professor of art history at Academy of Art, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø where she teaches at the BA and MA program in Fine Art. Hanne Hammer Stien has published widely on contemporary northern art and visual culture, museology, and the history and theory of photography. She is co-heading the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) and has numerous positions within academia and the art field. Among others she is a member of the artistic advisory board of the new government quarter in Oslo, the associated editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, and on the board of Mađđi - Romsa kunsthall and the research and development committee at the Arts Council Norway. Stien’s writings and curatorial work include exhibitions and texts on Kåre Kivijärvi, Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár/Iver Jåks, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Joar Nango, Inuuteq Storch, Katja Aglert and Inger Sitter.

Toril Rokseth has worked with education and communication through exhibitions for 15 years. Initially as Director of Education and then as Director of Exhibitions at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2022, she began her role as Head of Department: Exhibitions and Outreach at the Cultural History Museum.

Nkule Mabaso  is an artist and curator.  Currently Mabaso is director of the Fotogalleriet (Oslo), a publicly funded institution / kunsthalle for photography in the Nordic region. Concurrently, Mabaso is Ph.D. researcher at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art & Design, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.  Mabaso is the founding director of the Natal Collective (2012), an independent production company based  in South Africa, and active internationally in the research and presentation of creative and cultural Africana contemporary art and politics.

Velkommen til en dag fylt med nysgjerrighet, samtaler og nye perspektiver – programmet vil bli publisert snart.

Arrangementet vil foregå på engelsk.

Arrangementet støttes av Utenriksdepartementet og Forskningsrådet.