Job description

Hanne Hammer Stien is Professor of Art History at Academy of Arts and Deputy Director for Researcher Education. As Deputy Director for Researcher Education she is part of the Strategic Doctoral Committee at UiT.

Stien's research interests are museology and curatorial practice, the history and theory of photography, and contemporary art and art theory. Among her latest articles are "Drawing Sovereignty: The Museum Work of Sámi Artist Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár/Iver Jåks", published in Critical Arts (2025), and "Dealing with Nordic Colonialism: Agency and Othering in Two Art Projects Invoking Living Ethnographic Displays", coauthored with Cathrine Baglo and published in Third Text (2024).

Stien has also practiced as an art critic and curated several exhibitions and art projects in public spaces. She is a member of the artistic advisory board of the new government quarter in Oslo, memeber of the steering commitee of Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), assisten editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, member of the board of Mađđi - Romsa kunsthall and the board of Tromsø kunstforening, and a member of the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) at UiT. Stien was part of the research project Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic (URBTRANS), led by Tone Huse, UiT.