Academic Interests
- Aesthetic Theories
- Visuality
- Modernism
- Contemporary Art
Ongoing research
In my ongoing reseach focus is on the relation between the gaze and the art work. It is a relation that is discussed from the point of departure of the aeshetics of the fragment and it is developed in relation to works by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Ad Reinhardt and Gerhard Richter. Central concepts are attraction, distance, silence and melancholy
Higher education and employment history
- Dr. Art. 1998 at the University of Oslo
- Research fellow at the The Department of Art History, Oslo University, 2000-2002
- Assistant professor, Department of Musicology and Art history, Lund University, 2003-2006
- Research fellow at The Department of Musicology and Art history, Lund University, 2006-2009
- Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, sec. of Art History, Oslo University, 2009-2010
- Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund, 2010-2011
- Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, sec. of Art History, 2011-
Appointments
- Member of the board of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics
- Member of the Board of representatives, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
- PhD-Leader, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas 2021-2022
- Head of Section, Art History, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, 2022-
- Chair of the review panel of Arts and Literature, the Research Council of Finland, 2022-
- Chair, NOS-HS workshop panel, 2015 - 2020
- Member of the evaluation panel for Aesthetic disciplines (Literature, Theatre, Music, Film, Art and History of Architecture), the Swedish Research Council, 2010-2015
- Head of section, Art History, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, 2013 - 2016
- Member of Department Board, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, 2012 - 2020
- Member of the board of external experts in an overall assessment of leading research areas at the Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University, 2014
- Member of Accreditation Panel, The Danish Accreditation Institution, 2014
- Member of the board of Quality Assurance, Cultural science, Swedish Higher Education Authority 2013
- Member of the Board of Humanities, Norwegian Research Council, 2010-2013