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Marianne Elisabet Hultman, born 1970 in Eriksfält Malmöhus, is a Swedish art historian, curator and writer.

Since 2022, she is the director of North Norwegian Art Centre and Lofoten International Art Festival - LIAF.[1]

Marianne Hultman was exhibition curator at Norrköping Art Museum 2002-2007, and director of Oslo Kunstforening 2007-2022.[2]

Biography Marianne Hultman studied at Stockholm University from 1989 and at the University of Gothenburg from 1992. Hultman was one of the initiators of Föreningen organiserade curatorer i Sverige (FOCS) in 2005 and was part of its first board.[3]

Marianne Hultman was one of the initiators of Kunsthallene i Norge. Between 2016-2018 she was its chairperson.[4]

Between 2015 and 2018, Hultman was one of the initiators of a Scandinavian network involving Kunsthallene in Norge, Foreningen af Kunsthaller i Denmark and Klister in Sweden, which resulted in a comprehensive Scandinavian report and the symposium 'Agencies of Art' held in Oslo and attended by more than 40 contemporary art institutions and other professionals from the Nordic region.[5]

Between 2018 and 2021, Hultman was chair of the Swedish Arts Council's reference group for project grants and operating support for contemporary art centre's in Sweden.

Between 2008 and 2022, she was a jury member and curator for Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's grant and scholarship exhibition in Oslo[6].[6]

In 2016, Hultman became a member of a council led by the French national network of contemporary art galleries d.c.a., Association française de développement des centres d'art contemporain, with the aim of establishing a European network for small and medium-sized contemporary art institutions.[7]

In 2018, Marianne Hultman was one of five guest curators for Dak'Art in Senegal.[8][9]

Hultman is on the board of the National Network og Contemporary Art Centres in Norway (KiN) from 2023.[10]

Curatorial practice In 2004, Marianne Hultman curated the first exhibition on Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T). The exhibition 'Technology for Life; About Experiments in Art and Technology' was shown at Norrköping Art Museum.[11][12]

In 2008 and 2009, Hultman was part of a collaborative project with the aim of establishing art networks with African countries. Five Norwegian curators collaborated with five curators based in an African country to produce exhibitions for Oslo.[13][14]

In 2015, Marianne Hultman initiated a collaboration and exchange between Oslo Kunstforening, Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria. 'WATA don PASS; Looking West' was an exchange between the Nordic countries and West Africa with a focus on performance. A group of artists from the Nordic region travelled to Lagos for a workshop with artists from West Africa.[15] In the same year, the four West African artists performed monumental performances at Lilith Performance Studio. Hultman also organised a seminar at Moderna Museet in Malmö with Norwegian, Swedish and West African researchers, curators and artists. The purpose of 'WATA don PASS; Looking West' was to start a dialogue about performance art, a relatively new phenomenon in West Africa at the time, and to take the temperature of the postcolonial discussion in Sweden and Norway.[16][17]

In 2016, Hultman was one of the organisers of the group exhibition 'Nordic Delights', which was shown in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The curators were Hultman, Kristine Kern and Anne-Kaisa Rastenberger.[18]

In 2017, Hultman began a collaboration with Statsbygg; Project New National Museum, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Dansens Hus, Ekebergparken and Biologisk-dynamisk Forening, with a series of connected works and events, the core of which was the exhibition 'Letters Sent from Heaven' at Oslo Kunstforening featuring experimental Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya's photographs of snow crystals and electrostatic discharges.[19][20][21]

In 2018, Hultman and Ýrr Jónasdóttir with Birta Guðjónsdóttir curated the exhibition 'Beirut, Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout', which was shown in Oslo, Ystad and Reykjavik.[22]

In 2021, Marianne Hultman and Helena Scragg curated 'Noa Eshkol: Rules, Theory & Passion', the first major retrospective exhibition in the Nordic region with works by Noa Eshkol. The exhibition was shown at Oslo Kunstforening and Norrköping Art Museum.[23][24]

Bibliography • Noa Eshkol, Rules Theory & Passion, Jewish Culture in Sweden, Stockholm 2022, Marianne Hultman, Lizzie Oved Scheja, Helena Persson, Helena Scragg (SV and EN)[25] • Letters Sent from Heaven - Frozen and Vaporised Water: Ukichiro Nakaya and Fujiko Nakaya's Science and Art, OK BOOK, Oslo 2022, Marianne Hultman, Jonatan Habib Engqvist: (EN)[26] • Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipendutstilling 2008-2021, OK BOOK, Oslo 2022, Marianne Hultman (ed) (NO)[27] • Eline McGeorge - As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet, OK BOOK, Oslo 2020, Marianne Hultman (NO, EN)[28] • Gavin Jantjes - The Exogenic Series (Aqua), OK BOOK, Oslo 2018, Marianne Hultman (NO, EN)[29] • The Blue Hour, L'heure Rouge; Contours, Dak'Art 13, Dakar 2018, Marianne Hultman (EN, FR)[30] • Maputo, A Tale of One City, Oslo Museum, Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo 2009, Marianne Hultman, Bisi Silva, Daniella van Dijk-Wennberg (NO, EN)[31] • Technology for Life: On Experiments in Art and Technology, Schultz Förlag AB, Stockholm 2004, Marianne Hutman et al. (SV)[32]