Kirsti van Hoegee (NO)

Kirsti van Hoegee (b. 1975) is an artist and curator currently living in Bergen in Norway. In her artistic practice van Hoegee is interested in how stories and narratives shape the understanding of reality, and how art can shake these perceptions. 

Images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope have forged a collective understanding of the universe and people’s relationship to the universe is therefore based on visual impressions more than verifiable facts. In large parts of the world humans have a changed connections with the stars due to increased light pollution, and the strong desire to light up the world also affects the insects. In van Hoegee’s latest projects she has looked at how light pollution affects us directly and how this can be communicated through visual awareness.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Photography Department at Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB), and a master's degree in fine art from the academy at KHiB in 2009. van Hoegee has exhibited at Haugesund Visual Arts Association, Hordaland Art Center, Henie Onstad Art Center, and Kristiansand Kunsthall. In 2017, she published the book “Planetarisk tåke” at Forlaget H//O//F. From 2016-2018 she was a producer and curator at KRAFT before she started the job as a director in December 2018. From 2019-2020 she was a member of The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK) selection committee, and she has experience from board positions in the Visual Artists’ Association Hordaland (BKFH) and Hordaland Art Center. As the director at KRAFT, she has artistic responsibility and curates’ large parts of the program. She is the editor of the series Parallel which is published by the publisher KRAFT Press.

From 2021–2023 Kirsti van Hoegee takes part in the MA program in Curatorial Practice at the University of Bergen. She has a particular interest in rethinking established narratives and apply speculative fiction as a method to challenge the given reality.