Merete Hermansen Jonvik
Merete Jonvik lives and works in Stavanger, as an associate professor of sociology at the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She teaches topics such as social inequality and material culture. Her research areas are mainly within the sociology of art and culture.
Merete is part of our program: DEPARTURE/DEPLOYMENT.
Jonvik, together with Eivind Røssaak, Hanne Hammer Stien and Arnhild Sunnanå, has published the book Kunst som deling, delingens kunst (2020, Fagbokforlaget). The book deals with the contemporary art field in Norway after 2010. In 2021, Jonvik, together with artist Hans Edward Hammonds, published Samarbeid mellom små og store vesen (Collaboration between small and large beings ), which is based on a participatory art and research project in which Jonvik and Hammonds explore what happens when children and adults collaborate to create a work of art, as well as the report Infrastrukturelle undersøkingar. Ein rapport om Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, which was an external evaluation of the studio and development program Atelier Kunstnerforbundet. Jonvik is a regular contributor to Contemporary Art Stavanger (CAS).