Hanne Mugaas

Hanne Mugaas is Head of Programme at OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

She was formerly the Founding Director of Kunsthall Stavanger, where she curated numerous exhibitions, including the recent Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: Bleak House (2023–24), Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2024), and Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken (2024–25). She presented major survey exhibitions, including Judith Bernstein: Rising (2016) and Kiki Kogelnik: Inner Life (2017), both of which featured significant works that had not been shown since the 1960s. Her additional curatorial projects span a wide range of large-scale solo exhibitions and commissions with artists such as Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Emma Talbot, Farah Al Qasimi, Hanne Lippard, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Peggy Ahwesh, Yngve Holen, and Nicolas Party, among many others.

Prior to Kunsthall Stavanger, Mugaas spent a decade in New York, where she held curatorial roles at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and founded the project space Art Since the Summer of ’69. Since 2004, she has curated exhibitions and projects at venues such as Studio Voltaire, London; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia; Performa 11 and 9, New York; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; and Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

Mugaas’ editorial work includes Judith Bernstein: Rising, published by Mousse, – the first publication to contextualize Bernstein’s expansive oeuvre within the broader framework of feminist art history and American socio-political discourse, and Kiki Kogelnik: Inner Life, published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation.

Mugaas has served on the boards of Bergen Assembly and OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and participated in numerous international panels and juries, including the Nam June Paik Award, the Frieze London Stand Prize, and Glasgow International’s Across the City Panel.