Tuva Mossin

Position

PhD candidate, Art history

Short info

Tuva Mossin is an art historian and critic educated at UiB, where she is currently a PhD candidate. Her research interests embrace the visual history of ideas from the Enlightenment to the present day, particularly photography and other phenomena at the intersection between art and activism.
Work

Mossin's PhD project, which is part of the research project Visions of the Arctic, deals with visual representations of Greenland and Greenlanders through a period of four hundred years. The project emphasizes Norway's role in the colonization of the country, a story that is told through readings of three portrait paintings of Inuit individuals from 1654, 1753 and the 1920s respectively. Greenlandic contemporary art, especially Julie Edel Hardenberg's art activism, acts as the project's lens through which she tries to understand bodily and mental manifestations of colonization today.

Teaching

In addition to her research, Mossin teaches museum history, as well as modern and contemporary art at both bachelor's and master's level. During the fall 2024 semester, she is the responsible for the course DKT100 - introduction to art, theater and digital culture.

Publications
Lecture
Book review
Chapter
Popular scientific chapter/article
Masters thesis
Interview Journal

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Below is a list of Mossin's publications. Besides researching, she is active both as a critic and educator. In addition to selected articles and book chapters, you will therefore find a considerable number of exhibition reviews.

Projects

As part of her PhD qualifications, Mossin coordinates of an interdisciplinary exhibition at the University Museum in Bergen, which thematizes the continuous connection between Bergen and Greenland through four hundred years. The exhibition, which will open in November 2025, will present a number of objects from Greenland alongside contemporary art and archive material from several of the city's local museums.