Associate Professor Marianne Hurum

Marianne Hurum’s (b. 1978, Oslo) practice is an endless dive into painting and its kins, encompassing a.o. sculpture, video, jewelry and photograms and writing. Her work is characterised by a deep formal research into the painterly medium paralleled by a playful and existensial approach to artistic creation. Her work is fuelled by ethics of loneliness and solidarity and her belief in painting rests on a conviction in painting as a place for contemporaneity and history to be registered. 

Hurum lives and works between Oslo and Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from the Malmø Art Academy. She has served as Chair of the Board of UKS (Young Artists’ Society Union) and her exhibition history includes venues such as Astrup Fearnley Museet, Kulturhuset Stockholm, The Stavanger Art Museum, Lillehammer Art Museum, Oslo Kunstforening, Kunstnernes Hus, Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo), NEVVEN Gallery (Gøteborg) and Lothringer13_Laden (München). Upcoming exhibitions include Signal (Malmö), Peer Gynt (Gålå) and Hotti (Zürich). 

Her KUV project The Whole House is Haunted looks at portraiture painting in a class perspective.