Hanne Mugaas

OCA, Norway
Head of Programme

Hanne Mugaas is Head of Programme at OCA in Oslo. She was formerly Founding Director of Kunsthall Stavanger, where she earned both national and international acclaim for the institution’s bold and innovative programming. At Kunsthall Stavanger, Mugaas curated numerous exhibitions, including the most recent Ebecho Muslimova: Fatebe Shadows (2025), Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken (2024–25), Jumana Manna:Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2024), and Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: Bleak House (2023–24). She has presented major survey exhibitions, including Judith Bernstein: Rising (2016) and Kiki Kogelnik: Inner Life (2017), both of which featured significant works that had not been shown since the 1960s. Her additional curatorial projects span a wide range of large-scale solo exhibitions and commissions with artists such as Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Emma Talbot, Farah Al Qasimi, Hanne Lippard, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Peggy Ahwesh, Yngve Holen, and Nicolas Party, among many others. Mugaas’ editorial work includes Judith Bernstein: Rising, published by Mousse, —the first publication to contextualise Bernstein’s expansive oeuvre within the broader framework of feminist art history and American socio-political discourse, and Kiki Kogelnik: Inner Life, published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. Prior to Kunsthall Stavanger, Mugaas spent a decade in New York, where she held curatorial roles at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and founded the project space Art Since the Summer of ’69. Since 2004, she has curated exhibitions, projects and screenings at venues such as Studio Voltaire, London; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia; Performa 11 and 9, New York; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; and Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

Hanne Mugaas will visit Vienna on a curatorial exchange with OCA Norway in November 2025.