Tuva Mossin

Position

PhD Candidate, Art history

Affiliation

Research groups

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.
Research

Mossin’s PhD project is part of the interdisciplinary research initiative Visions of the Arctic. Drawing on objects and images from Norwegian museum collections, she investigates visual representations of Greenlanders from the 17th century to the present. The project pays particular attention to Norway’s role in the colonization of Greenland, employing contemporary art as a critical lens. The project's aim is to shed light on how encounters between Norwegian colonists and Greenlanders have shaped, and continue to influence, both perceptions of Greenlanders and institutional museum practices today.

Publications
Lecture
Academic lecture
Book review
Chapter
Popular scientific chapter/article
Masters thesis

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 an interdisciplinary exhibition at the University Museum in Bergen, which thematizes the  connection between Norway and Greenland through 300 years.