• Langelandsgade 139, 1580, 346

    8000 Aarhus C

    Denmark

Personal profile

Research

Halland is founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur.

 

Her academic work is published in journals such as Aggregate, Log, Journal of Design History, Arkitektur, Kunst og kultur, and The Journal of Nordic Museology. Her work as an art critic is published in art magazines, museum catalogues, and artist books.

 

The book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture, and Design was published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk in 2021. The book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics (under contract with Brill) will be published in 2025. 

Profile

Ingrid Halland is an architecture historian and art critic, currently a visiting professor in aestethics and culture at Aarhus University. 

 

She is Associate Professor of Cultural History and Museology at Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. She is also associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she teaches at the PhD programme. 

 

Halland is the Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2023 – 2028, and Co-Principle Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien, funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (DIKU), 2022 – 2025. Together with Kjetil Fallan, she is Principle Investigator of the project 'Material Ecologies of Design,' which has received the CAS Research Grant 2025 - 2026, at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Areas of expertise

  • Contemporary art and aesthetics
  • Architecture and design
  • Exhibitions and museology
  • Post modernism
  • Material culture