Ingrid Halland
Ingrid Halland (b. 1988) is an art and architecture historian and art critic. She is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University and Associate Professor II at the University of Bergen.
In collaboration with Marte Johnslien, she leads the research project TiO2: How Norway Made the World Whiter . She is the editor of the publishing platform Metode , run by ROM for art and architecture.
Ingrid is part of our programme: WASTE / DEPOSIT.
Ingrid about her work at Velferden in April 2025:
"During my writing stay at Velferden, I am working on the introduction to a forthcoming book about the colour white in Western art history. The book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics examines the significance of the colour white in Western art history and aesthetics, focusing on themes such as beauty, progress, and colonial gestures."
The book contains 30 chapters written by Nordic and international art historians, architects, conservators and artists, and the chapters range geographically and chronologically from Greek antiquity to white Arctic landscapes in the aesthetics of climate change. I am editing the book together with art historians Tonje Haugland Sørensen and Helene Engnes Birkeli at the University of Bergen.
The book is part of the research project TiO2: How Norway Made the World Whiter and for several years we in the research group have collaborated closely with Velferden to investigate the history of titanium dioxide.”
Images from the exhibition 'Campaign! Norway in red, whitest and blue' at Jøssingfjord Science Museum, June 21, 2024 to April 7, 2025, which Halland was the curator of.
Photo 1 © Solveig Tjetland
Photo 2 © Hanna Marie Biørnstad
Photo 3/4 © Maximilian Schob