Malene Vest Hansen
Associate Professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
Karen Blixens Vej 1
2300 København S
Malene Vest Hansen – CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic positions
2013– Associate professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
2009-2013 Postdoc Research Fellow, Dept. of Arts and Cultural Studies, section
for Art History, UCPH, project: Curating as a Cultural Phenomenon
2007-2008 Associate professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,Copenhagen
2006-2007 Lecturer, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2002-2005 Postdoc Research Fellow Dept. of Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH,
research project: Contemporary art interventions in public space
1997-1999 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University NYC
1996-2002 PhD in Art History, Dept. of Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH. Thesis in contemporary art with the title Sophie Calle: Identitetsbilleder og social arkæologi [Sophie Calle: Images of Identity and social archaeology] (Advisors: Øystein Hjort and Christina Kiaer)
Academic awards
1995 Gold Medal from the University of Copenhagen for Prize Thesis En akademisk fantasme. Nicolas Poussin og repræsentationsproblemet i 1600-tallet [A Phantasm of Academia: Nicolas Poussin and the Problem of Representation in 17th Century Painting]
Research grants
2019 Danish Council for Independent Research funding for FKK-1 project, 2 years: Curating the Contemporary: An Exhibition History of the Museum of Modern art as a New Bildung Institution
https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/curating-the-contemporary/
2014 The Danish Research Council funding for the Research Network for Studies in the Curatorial, 2 years
https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/focus/studiesinthecuratorial/
2012 The Novo Nordisk Foundation for Art History, travel grant for field research
2002 2 years Postdoc grant from The Danish National Research Council of the Humanities
2002 The Novo Nordisk Foundation for Art History, grant
1996 3 years PhD grant from Danish National Research Council for the Humanities
Research and administration assignments
2020-2025 Advisory Board member, The Feminist Legacy in Art Museums (PI: Ulla Jørgensen and Sigrun Åsebø), funded by the Norwegian Research Council
2022– Member of steering commitee, CultureSustain research Network (PI Prof Ane Hejlskov, AU)funded by the Research Council Denmark
2019-2020 PI of Curating the Contemporary: An Exhibition History of the Museum of Modern art as a New Bildung Institution
2017-2021 Board member Statens Kunstfonds Repræsentantskab /Danish Arts Council
2016–2018 Member of the Research committee, Dept Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH
2014– Member of the Ministry of Culture’s panel of research assessment in museums, the section of art history
2014–2017 PI of Research Network for Studies in the Curatorial (and founder with Anne Folke Henningsen)
2011– Member of the Steering Group, Dansk Center for Museumsforskning [The Danish Centre for Museum Studies]
2013-2017 Founder and head of Copenhagen Consortium: Kuratorisk Forskningsforum
2012–2015 Board member, NORDIK Nordic committee of art history
2012–2015 Vicepresident, AICA, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art
2010–2011 Co-founder of Network for Curating and Museum Studies, UCPH
2009–2012 Board member, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Art History Project
2005-2015 Board member, AICA, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art
2005-2011 President of AICA Denmark
Courses in Research and Project Management
2019 Leading Research – a leadership Course, UCPH
2016 Research Project Management Course, UCPH
2011 Lyst til Ledelse, UCPH
2010 Talentudviklingskursus for unge forskere, UCPH
Organizer of international conferences, selected
- Curating the Contemporary at the Art Museum SMK/UCPH March 12-13 2020 (postponed)
- Curatorial Challenges University of Copenhagen May 26-27 2016 https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/conferencecuratorial/Nye udfordringer for universitetsmuseer? Danish Center for Museum Research/University of Copenhagen February 28 www.museumsforskning.dk
- Inclusion and Exclusion: Constructions of Identity in Museums’ Collection Praxis, Danish Center for Museum Research/UCPH, 2012, www.museumsforskning.dk
- Let’s get critical: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Art History Project, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Cph. 27/2-28/2 2009, http://picolo.kunstakademiet.dk/nnf/index.php
Doctoral programme assignments
2020– PhD advisor Tom Hermansen
2019-2020 Postdoc adviser (Adjunktpædogikum faglig vejleder) for Kerry Greaves, UCPH
2019-2020 Postdoc adviser (Adjunktpædogikum faglig vejleder) for Kristian Handberg, UCPH
2017 PhD adviser for David Windfield Normann, UCPH
2016-2017 Postdoc adviser (adjunktpædagogikum) for Franziska Bork-Petersen, UCPH
2013 PhD adviser for Michael Kjær, UCPH
2011-2012 Conductor of PhD-course Studies in the Curatorial, UCPH (https://phd.hum.ku.dk/Cultlitart/courses/studies_in_the_curatorial)
2004 Adviser and keynote at Doctoral Course Grenser og rammer, Nationalt Forskerutbildningskurs, Tromsø Universitet (9/11-13/11)
Networks, selected
2019– The Center-Periphery Divide? Scandinavian Network for Exhibition Studies
2015–2018 Research Network for Studies in the Curatorial (co-founder) https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/focus/studiesinthecuratorial/
2010– Netværk for Kuratering og Museumsstudier (co-founder), IKK
2005– PSi, Performance Studies international
1991– AICA, association internationale des critiques d’art
2004-2006 Museologisk Forskernetværk
1997-98 NOISE: Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe
Editorial boards
2015– 2017 Perspective, The National Gallery of Denmark http://www.perspective.smk.dk
2007-2012 Co-founder and co-editor of SUM magazine for contemporary art
1993–2012 Co-founder and co-editor of Periskop. Forum for Kunsthistorisk debat [Journal on Art History and Theory], University of Copenhagen
Other
1990-1998 Art critic for the Danish daily newspaper Dagbladet Politiken
Knowledge of languages
Danish, English;
German and French, (Latin and ancient Greek)
Education
PhD in Art History
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