Geir Haraldseth

National Museum in Norway
Curator of contemporary art

Geir Haraldseth is a curator at the National Museum in Norway. There, he co-curated the inaugural exhibition I Call it Art with Randi Godø in 2022. In 2022 he also co-curated When the Body Says Yes by Melanie Bonajo for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg and Soraya Pol. Previous positions include Director of the Rogaland Kunstsenter (2012-18) in Stavanger, where he initiated a library, a summer school, a record label, and residency programs, and Curator at the National Academy of the Arts (2011-12) in Oslo, where he served as the first curator at the Academy of Fine Art. His writing has been published in Art in America, the Exhibitionist, Kunstkritikk, and Acne Paper, amongst others. He is currently the chair of The Norwegian Art Yearbook (from 2021) and is part of the board of the National Museum. He has served as part of the Arts Council Norway (2014-2018), chairing the expert committee for Visual Arts and as part of the Office for Contemporary Art’s International Jury (2020-2022). Together with Busy Gangnes he runs the record label NuTroll that focuses on music as art. Recent releases include My Barbarian and Hairbone.

Geir Haraldseth will visit Vienna on a curatorial exchange with OCA Norway in November 2025.

Photo: Ina Wesenberg