Ingrid Halland is an architecture historian and art critic. At the University of Bergen, she teaches 20th century architecture history and theory, as well as contemporary art theory, politics of aesthetics, and art historiography. Halland is also Programme Coordinator for Art History.  

She is also associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she teaches at the PhD programme.​ 

Her academic work is published in journals such as Log, Aggregate, Journal of Design History, Arkitektur N, Kunst og kultur and Journal Nordic Museology, and her work as an art critic is published in art magazines, museum catalogues, and artist books. The book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design was published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk in 2021. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur.  

Halland is the Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2023 – 2028, and Co-Principle Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien, funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (DIKU), 2022 – 2025. Together with Kjetil Fallan, she is Principle Investigator of the project 'Material Ecologies of Design,' which has received the CAS Research Grant 2025 - 2026, at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

The article "'With-On' White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950" by Ingrid Halland and Marte Johnslien is the first research publication on titanium white, and was published by Aggregate in January 2023.

I supervise MA projects in architectural history, design history, art from the 20th century, contemporary art, museology, art theory and art historiography.

Teaching Fall 2023

DKT100 Introduction to Art, Theatre and Digital Culture

KUN108 Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1750-1950

Teaching Spring 2023

KUN256 Area Study with Bachelor's Thesis, topic spring 2023 'Athens'

KUN323 Research Specialization in Art History: Fieldwork, Academic Environments and Scholarly Community

KUN260 Modern and contemporary art, architecture, and visual culture, topic spring 2023 'The Politics of Contemporary Arts'

 

Teaching Fall 2022

KUN108 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1950-today (was tought in English) 

KUN254 Moderne og samtidskunst med bacheloroppgåve (topic fall 2022 'The Exhibition as Research')

 

Teaching Spring 2022

KUN106 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1750-1950 

KUN201 - Art Theory, Aesthetics and Historiography

 

Media interview

• Ingrid Halland; Kjetil Fallan (2025). Materialeøkologier, kunsthåndværk og design. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). I Sokndal kom inspirasjonen til det som ble et verdensfenomen: Nå startes forskningsprosjekt med millionbudsjett for å lære mer om oppfinnelsen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Er klimaprotestene negative for kunsten og museene? Nei, mener to kunsthistorikere. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). A Nordic Revolt Against ‘Ugly’ Modern Architecture. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Forskning for alle. (external link)
• MARIT FLÅTTER; Marte Johnslien; Ingrid Halland (2024). Estetisk bearbeiding av landskap. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). 'Hånden bag det hele' av Heidi Laura. (external link)
• Torgeir Holljen Thon; Ingrid Halland (2022). Vil ha mer kunstnerisk forskning. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Går hardt ut mot media etter rasismefokus. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). – Akademikere har mye å lære av kunstfeltet. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Norsk hvitfarge preger hele verden. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Norway’s ilmenite: where history and innovation combine. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2023). Eit norsk industrieventyr endra utsjanaden på verda. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Fox News: «Norges regjering finansierer forskning for å finne ut om hvit maling er rasistisk.» – Upresis, svarer forskningsleder. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Får 12 millioner skattekroner til å forske på hvordan Norge gjør verden «hvitere»: – Det aller tåpeligste jeg har sett noen gang. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). Er Saccosekken farlig?. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2023). Vi seier ikkje at Noreg har lansert rasistiske haldningar. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Sustainability needs to look different. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Livmorer og nanomaterialer. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Ingrid Halland (2012). Utstillingsreform : En studie av Jens Thiis og Hans Dedekams utstillingsstrategier for kunstindustrimuseer 1895-1905. (external link)

Journal review

• Ingrid Halland (2019). The Homogeneous Community. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). Ting og rom. Norvegiska Romá - Norske sigøynere på Oslo museum. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Purisme nå. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). Den norske popkunstens uventede kraft. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). Museumsforteljingar: Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum. Sigrid Lien og Hilde Wallum Nielssen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Museum Without Walls. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). En verden uten kontinuitet. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Design in museums 2022: Towards an ethical design aesthetic. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Design i utakt. (external link)

Academic article

• Ingrid Halland (2019). Being Plastic. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). The Delos Mutation: Interdisciplinary Entanglements between Biology and Architecture 1963–1975. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). The Unstable Object: Glifo, Blow and Sacco at MoMA, 1972. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Hypoxic Hypoxia: Or Error Earth, 1972. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2023). “With-On” White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). Hvor er nødutgangen? Spekulativ kunsthistorie i antropocen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2013). Systematikk og kulturhistorie: Jens Thiis, Hans Dedekam og debatten om en utstillingsreform. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). Debatten går, kan man bytte navn på kunstverk? Tja, sier kunsthistorikere. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). (Re)working the Past, (Dis)playing the Future. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape at MoMA, 1972. (external link)
• Cathelijne Nuijsink; Tom Avermaete; Patricio del Real et al. (2025). The Architectural Exhibition as Cross-Cultural Contact Zone: Op-Ed. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Ordet «kvit» er ikkje i seg sjølv rasistisk, sa professoren. Då vart det bråk. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas Symposium, 1972. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Arkitekturteoriens nye relevans. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics. (external link)

Lecture

• Petrine Vinje; Synne Tollerud Bull; Ingrid Halland et al. (2021). Objective Enactive - Artist talk. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Is White Paint Racist? Archival Gaps and Public Participation as Methods in Art Historical Research. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Book launch conversation with Anna Ulrikke Andersen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Why surfaces, why now? Introduction to Metode's first volume 'Deep Surface'. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Deep Ecology: History, Theory, Ethics. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Om Johanne Hestvolds 'Beholdere' og nyere kunstfilosofi. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Restless: Towards a New Art Ethics. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). (V)endepunkt. Kunst og tenkning etter postmodernismen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2021). How Norway Made the World Whiter. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Livsfugen i Kristiansand. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). Displaying the Future: A Journey Into the Unknown. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Det som ligger klart for hånden. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Nicholas Norton (2023). Hybridkritikk. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). Microenvironments, 1972: Eleven Episodes About an Uncertain Future. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Plattform for ung kunst og kritikk?. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Hvilke estetiske verdier fremmer lokale materialer og historier i vår høyteknologiske samtid?. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). Er byen en hjerne? Kybernetikk, globalisering og urbanisme ca. 1970. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2023). TiO2 Synergies: Methods in arts-based humanities. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Utstilling som forskningsmetode?. (external link)
• Marte Johnslien; Ingrid Halland (2024). Titanium Dioxide: An Arts-Based Archeology of an Unsettling Pigment. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). A History of Systems and Ethics. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2025). TiO2: The Materiality of White - og det keramiske perspektivet. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Design, Anti-Design and Speculative Design, c. 1970. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). Crafting Design Theories for Change. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Klima for kritikk (arrangør av seminaret og leder av paneldebatt). (external link)
• Petrine Vinje; Jakob Oredsson; Ingrid Halland (2023). Conversation with Ingrid Halland, Jakob Oredsson, Petrine Vinje on artistic research, and the exhibitions Surfacing Solids / Symbiotic Stories at Galleri F15, Moss Galleri F15, Moss 19.01.23. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Synne Tollerud Bull (2021). Artist talk by Petrine Vinje: “Objective Enactive”. (external link)
• Michael Sperlinger; Morten Kvamme; Ingrid Halland et al. (2023). Panel discussion for seminar on Nasjonale Turistveger. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Air Conditions: Marte Eknæs - Forms of Flexibility. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Fra hvitt til jord: Samtale med Marte Johnslien. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Degrowth Tendencies of the Norwegian Deep Ecology Movement. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Negation and Speculation: On Critical Design. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Systems of Delos: Biology, Urbanism, Epistemology. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Ingrid Halland (2021). White Entanglements: On Teaching Titanium White. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). (Re)working the Past, (Dis)playing the Future: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). These machines are switched on. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). ‘The Vegetable Garden’ at MoMA, 1972: An Eco-Survival Device for the Anthropocene. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). Power to the Object! Towards an Objectification of Exhibitions. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2013). Jens Thiis og Nordenfjeldske kunstindustrimuseum som aktører i den europeiske utstillingsreformen. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). On Earth, In Air, With Waste. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2025). White World Waste: Unearthing an Unsettling Pigment. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). From White to Earth. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). Why We Must Destroy the Environment. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). 'Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe.' On Jean Baudrillard’s Attempt to Destroy the Environment, 1970. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Design og anti-design: Aktivisme, estetikk og politikk. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2016). Plastics and Plasticity: Gaetano Pesce in 1972, 2013 and 3000. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Deep Surface: An Ethical Theory of Materiality. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Research-by-display: Ethics, Aesthetics, Exhibitions. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Unsettling White: How Modernism Made the Surface Invisible. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). From White Walls to Human Cells: The Surface Sustainability of Titanium Dioxide, 1916-Present. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Air Conditions: A Discussion on Architectural Aerodynamics. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2022). The Materiality of White. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). “The Universitas 1972: 'Radical Left' and 'Right-Wing Technocrats'”. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Notes on Flexibility. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). From White Modernism to Human Tissue: The Toxic Entanglements of Titanium Dioxide. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). What Can Theory Do?. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Hva er kunsthistorisk forskning? Om nyere tendenser i kunsthistoriefaget. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Delos Ouroboros: Cybernetics/Brain/Epistemology. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2012). Jens Thiis og Hans Dedekams utstillingsstrategier for kunstindustrimuseer. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). Notes on Ecology, Environmental Humanities, and Inescapabilty. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Plastic: Physical and Metaphysical Destructiveness. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Titanium Dioxide: An Arts-Based Archeology of an Unsettling Pigment. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2022). Material Withdraw: How Modernism Made the Surface Invisible. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). Are We Plastic? On Speculative Design and Gaetano Pesce's Plastic Bunker from the Year 3072. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). Utstillingens iverksettelseskraft. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972. (external link)

Popular science article

• Vera Kvaal; Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2024). Norsk hvitfarge preger hele verden. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2020). Relasjonell skulptur. Emosjonell kunstner. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). Den grønne kuben. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2025). The Borderland of Raw Materials. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2017). Air-condition er vår tids eksistensielle betingelse. (external link)

Introduction

• Ingrid Halland (2023). 2001: En speiderodyssé. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Ingrid Halland (2015). Norwegian Design. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Abirami Logendran; Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2025). Omtale av TiO2 prosjektet i Norsk Kunstårbok 2024. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Ingrid Halland (2024). Deep Ecology by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Beholder: or, the Unthought’s Negation. An Essay on Johanne Hestvold’s Sculptures. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2018). (V)endepunkt: Plastikk og plastisitet i 1972/3072. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Planteornamentikk, kopier og brudd: Om William Morris-rommet i Nordenfjeldske kunstindustrimuseum, cirka 1900. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland; Stian Rossi (2023). Upcycled regionalism: The Aesthetics of Geopolymer Concert. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2014). Fra system til kontekst: En utstillingsreform på tvers. (external link)

Exhibition production

• Ingrid Halland; Marte Johnslien (2023). TiO2 Prøvefelt. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). Campaign!. (external link)
• Synne Tollerud Bull; Dragan Miletic; Petrine Vinje et al. (2021). Urban Ecologies After A.I.. (external link)
• Morten Spjøtvold; Helene Engnes Birkeli; Tonje Haugland Sørensen et al. (2025). Nordmandsdalen: Kunst, makt og materialer i 1700-tallets Danmark-Norge. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Ingrid Halland (2023). Displaying Deep Surfaces: Introducing a field and a method. (external link)

Professional article

• Ingrid Halland (2025). Exhibitions as Transformative Contact Zones. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2019). Kunstfilosofi etter relasjoner. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Fremtidens utdannelsesinstitusjon. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2024). ATTENTION: Currents. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Ingrid Halland (2018). Error Earth: Displaying Deep Cybernetics in "The Universitas Project" and Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, 1972. (external link)
• Lisbeth Funck; Ingrid Halland (2022). Becoming with Architecture: Making the Abstracted Space through Works and Words. (external link)

Media feature article

• Ingrid Halland (2017). Når kunst blir bevis. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2015). Spekulativt om Snorre-tegninger. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2023). Grunn forskning. (external link)
• Hege Rogstad Vetås; Kjetil Fallan; Ingrid Halland (2025). Historikerne som forsker på materialenes livsløp. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Alf Jørgen Schnell; Ingrid Halland; Hannah Sigriddatter Ander (2023). På sporet av den tapte fremtid: Intervensjoner i norsk urbanisme og modernisme. (external link)
• Cecilie Skeide; Ingrid Halland (2018). A Square on a Sphere: Marte Johnslien. (external link)
• Ingrid Halland (2021). Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture and Design. (external link)

Exhibition catalogue

• Marte Johnslien; Cecilie Skeide; Ingrid Halland (2018). A Square on A Sphere. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Ingrid Halland (2025). Katedralurbanisme. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

• Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter». Funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2022 – 2027
• Together with Kjetil Fallan, she is Principle Investigator of the project 'Material Ecologies of Design,' which has received the CAS Research Grant 2025 - 2026, at the Center for Advanced Research (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
• Co-Principle Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien. Funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (DIKU), 2022 – 2025