Erlend Hammer

Erlend Hammer (1978) er eks-kunstkritiker og kommer fra Moss. MA i Skapende kuratorpraksis fra Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen og hovedfag i kunsthistorie fra Universitetet i Bergen. Fra 2007 til 2010 Ph.D-stipendiat ved UiB. Var ansatt som assisterende redaktør for Kunstkritikk 1. april – 31. desember 2011, og som konstituert ansvarlig redaktør 1. januar – 30. juni 2012.

All articles by Erlend Hammer

In the Midst of the Painterly

Mari Slaattelid wants to paint – not the way she is, but the way she needs to be for the picture’s sake. This summer, her work can be seen at Bergen Kunsthall.

Lone Rider

Eivind Furnesvik shares some of his thoughts after having run the gallery Standard (Oslo) for a decade. The story is a study in obstinacy at its most fertile.

Paintings for a Dying Europe

The geometric paintings in Sveinung Unneland’s Neokompresjoner at Kristiansand Kunsthall take a more pessimistic outlook than their modernist predecessors.

Ten Questions: Anawana Haloba

– The noise of migration is good for the creative imagination, says Anawana Haloba, who opens a solo exhibition at SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum this weekend.

A Democratic Project

With the documentary #artoffline, shown as part of the Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, the director Manuel Correa seeks to challenge art’s problematic relationship with the Internet.

Ten Questions: Jonatan Habib Engqvist

The Reykjavík Art Festival opens this Friday, and the festival includes the large scale exhibition (I)ndependent People which presents a selection of collaborative projects.