Hanne Hammer Stien

Photo: Mari Hildung

Hanne Hammer Stien is associate professor in art history at the Academy of Arts, UiT Norway's Arctic University. Her research interests include museology and curatorial practice, photo history and photo theory, contemporary art and art theory, and Sami and Greenlandic art.

Together with Merete Jonvik, Eivind Røssaak and Arnhild Sunnanå, Stien has written Art as sharing. The art of sharing (Fagbokforlaget, 2020). In the book, the authors take a closer look at new trends in the field of contemporary art in Norway in the last decade.

Stien has for a long period acted as an art critic for Biledkunst and she has a curatorial practice. Stien has, among other things, broad experience from work with art projects in the public space. She sits on the R&D committee of the Norwegian Culture Council, and is a board member of Stiftelsen Kunstkritikk as well as a member of the artistic council of LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) and a member of the arts council of the new government quarter. Stien is a member of the Norwegian Critics' Association, the Norwegian Curators' Association and AICA. She is a member of the research group Worling Northern Art (WONA) and is involved in the research project Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic (UrbTrans).