The Nordik board consists of two regular board members and one supplicant member from each of the Nordic countries. In addition to the regular members, the association’s secretary is elected separately. To contact the board, e-mail us on info (at) nordikarthistory.org or contact one of the boardmembers directly.
Leena Svinhufvud
Chair of the board
Leena Svinhufvud completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of Helsinki where she also holds title of docent in art history. She has specialized in the history of modern textile design. Her research topics include also gender and craft, oral histories, exhibitions and museum collections and most recently, citizen curation and audience-generated data. Leena works as Educational Curator and Head of Learning at Design Museum Helsinki since 1998.
Email me: leena.svinhufvud@designmuseum.fi
Julia Svarvar
Secretary
Julia Svarvar is a PhD Student in architectural history at the department of Art History at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Her thesis is about urban bath houses in Finland 1870 to 1930.
Email me: julia.svarvar@abo.fi
Fred Andersson
Supplicant member
PhD in art history (Lund University), docent with a specialization in visual communication, head of the Visual Studies minor at Åbo Akademi. Has published on Nordic avantgarde and popular culture from a communicative and semiotic perspective.
Email me: fred.andersson@abo.fi
Signe Endersen
Board member
PhD in art history from University of Oslo (2015). Senior Curator at Munchmuseet (Oslo). Research and curatorial interests: European modern art with particular focus on new visual media, gender, identity construction, and material culture.
Email me: signe.endresen@munchmuseet.no
Inger M. L. Gudmundson
Board member
Gudmundson is a curator at Stavanger Art Museum. Research interests: 19th century paintings, contemporary art, gender studies.
Email me: inger.gudmundson@museumstavanger.no
Bente Solbakken
Supplicant member
Bente Aass Solbakken is a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Oslo (2018). Among her current research interests is architectural nationalism in the 19th century, and architecture in Sápmi.
Email me: bente.solbakken@nasjonalmuseet.no
Hedvig Mårdh
Board member
Hedvig Mårdh is a senior lecturer in cultural studies – art history and visual studies at Karlstad university. Her research interest include visual aspects of cultural heritage, including museums, urban planning, and public art. Mårdh is on the editorial board of Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art history.
Email me: hedvig.mardh@kau.se
Håkan Nilsson
Board member
Håkan Nilsson is professor in art history at Södertörn University and research mainly on post-war modernism and public art. He previously held a position as professor in art theory and history at Konstfack (2003-2017).
Nilsson is currently project leader for the project Designed Living Environments – Transdisciplinary Learning funded by KK-stiftelsen (The knowledge foundation) aiming at establishing a transdisciplinary course on advanced level for professionals working with in public art public realm, in co-operation with professor Loulou Cherinet at Konstfack and Ph.D Sofia Wiberg at KTH. He is the author of Måleriets rum (2009) and editor of two anthologies on public art, Placing Art in the Public Realm (2012) and Omförhandlingar (2021). Nilsson has also written numerous of articles and catalogue essays, and has been writing art criticsism in morning papers (Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet) on a regular basis since 1997. Previous research projects: Art (Without) Spaces (2005-08) Room, Power Ideology (2012-15) Collaboration, Synthesis, Spatiality – on Ideas and Ideals in some Post-War Artist Groups (2016-2019) (all funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) and Renegotiations (2018-20) where he was project leader for research project on public art, commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden.
Email me: hakan.nilsson@sh.se
Carina Rech
Supplicant member
Carina Rech holds a PhD in art history and is as a curator of nineteenth-century art at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Previously, she has worked at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm. Research interests include Nordic art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, portraiture, artists’ letter writing, as well as feminist and queer theory.
Email me: carina.rech@nationalmuseum.se
Rasmus Kjærboe
Vice chair
Rasmus has a PhD in art history and collection studies and is a researcher at The National Gallery of Denmark. He is the vice-president of the Danish Association of Art Historians and editor of Kunsthistorisk Bogliste. Research in museum history, queer and Danish art of the nineteenth century, and memorial culture.
Email me: rkj@arthistory.dk
Kristian Handberg
Board member
Kristian Handberg, PhD. Postdoc in Art History at the University of Copenhagen with research in exhibition histories of the postwar era.
Email me: handberg@hum.ku.dk
Susanne Bruhn
Supplicant member
Susanne Bruhn, PhD Fellow in art history and design studies at SDU – University of Southern Denmark and CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art. Since 2012 she has been a board member of the Danish Association of Art Historians. Research: Danish craft and design from 1880-1960 with a special interest in ceramics, design history, exhibition and collection studies
Email me: susannebruhn@live.com
Karina Hanney
Board member
karina hanney marrero is an independent art theorist, writer and project manager. She completed her Masters in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, London in 2014. In recent years she has contributed to different projects and publications in Reykjavík, London and Winnipeg. Karina’s current research focuses on marginal histories, and the representation of social and political power dynamics in modern society. Karina is based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Email me: karinahanney@gmail.com
Margrèt Elísabet Olafsdottir
Board member
Olafsdottir is an assistant professor at the University of Akureyri and lecturer at the Iceland University of the Arts. She teaches art history, art education theory and practice at the faculty of education, and lectures on modern and contemporary art. Her research interests are focused on contemporary media art and discourse on modern art in Iceland in early 20th century.
Email me: margretolafs@unak.is
Heiða Björk Árnadóttir
Supplicant member
PhD in Art History and Theory (University of British Columbia) and M.A. in Museum Studies (University of Iceland). Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Iceland. Research Areas: Museum history, Modern and Contemporary Art. Recent writing and teaching has centered on the postwar era, Fluxus, environmental art and the role of the proximal senses in art.
Email me: heida.bjork.arnadottir@gmail.com
NORDIK The Nordic Association for Art Historians 