Marianne Hultman (b. 1970) is a highly accomplished professional in the contemporary art world, with a strong background in curatorial leadership and institutional management.
Over the past three years, Hultman served as Director of the North Norwegian Art Centre and the Lofoten International Art Festival. Prior to that, she was Artistic Director of Oslo Kunstforening for 15 years, following her role as Curator of Temporary Exhibitions at Norrköping Art Museum in Sweden.
With an academic foundation in art history, mediation, and curatorial studies, Hultman has spent more than two decades promoting and curating contemporary art. Her extensive experience spans local, national, and international projects, reflecting a deep commitment to fostering artistic exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration across borders and contexts.
In addition to her curatorial work, Hultman has been actively engaged in cultural policy and advocacy. Her efforts to establish Norwegian, Nordic, and European networks for contemporary art centres underscore her dedication to strengthening the role of small and medium-sized institutions within the broader cultural landscape.
Marianne Hultman’s career reflects a holistic approach to the arts—combining curatorial excellence with strategic leadership and a strong belief in the societal relevance of contemporary art. Her work continues to support artists and institutions alike, contributing to a more connected and vibrant international art scene.
Over the past three years, Hultman served as Director of the North Norwegian Art Centre and the Lofoten International Art Festival. Prior to that, she was Artistic Director of Oslo Kunstforening for 15 years, following her role as Curator of Temporary Exhibitions at Norrköping Art Museum in Sweden.
With an academic foundation in art history, mediation, and curatorial studies, Hultman has spent more than two decades promoting and curating contemporary art. Her extensive experience spans local, national, and international projects, reflecting a deep commitment to fostering artistic exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration across borders and contexts.
In addition to her curatorial work, Hultman has been actively engaged in cultural policy and advocacy. Her efforts to establish Norwegian, Nordic, and European networks for contemporary art centres underscore her dedication to strengthening the role of small and medium-sized institutions within the broader cultural landscape.
Marianne Hultman’s career reflects a holistic approach to the arts—combining curatorial excellence with strategic leadership and a strong belief in the societal relevance of contemporary art. Her work continues to support artists and institutions alike, contributing to a more connected and vibrant international art scene.
With more than 20 years of experience in the art world, I bring a multidisciplinary background in art history, museum education, and curatorial studies, alongside extensive leadership experience. I have initiated, curated, and produced exhibitions and collaborative projects of varying scales—locally, nationally, and internationally—each shaped by a commitment to dialogue and discovery.
In addition to curating, I contribute to the field through writing and editorial work. I’ve served as editor for catalogues, anthologies, and other publications, and have authored both essays and scholarly texts that reflect my interest in the intersections of art, context, and interpretation.
Letters Sent from Heaven – Frozen and Vaporized Water: Ukichiro Nakaya and Fujiko Nakaya’s Science and Art. Edited by Marianne Hultman and Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Texts by Peder Anker, Anne‑Marie Duguet, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Marianne Hultman, Viktors Kravčenko, Kenjiro Okazaki, Reiko Setsuda, Sverker Sörlin, and Martin White. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2022. (in English)
Eline McGeorge: As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet. Editor and text by Hultman, Marianne. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2020. (in Norwegian, English)
Gavin Jantjes: The Exogenic Series (Aqua). Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2018. (in Norwegian, English)
Kunsthallene i Norge (Contemporary Art Centers in Norway). Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Author Nanna Løkka. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2018. (in Norwegian)
I skvis, om mellomsjiktet i kunstbyen Oslo (In the Squeeze – On the Middle Layer in Oslo’s Art Scene). Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Author Emil Flatø. Additional texts by Monica Holmen, Ruben Steinum and Runa Carlsen. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2018. (in Norwegian)
Stop Making Sense 19 March-25 April 2010. Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Texts by Tal Ben Zvi, Simon Njami, Irit Rogoff, Ella Shohat, and Marianne Hultman. Oslo: Oslo Kunstforening, 2010. (in English, Swedish, French, Hebrew)
Maputo; A Tale of One City. Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Texts by Daniella van Dijk-Wennberg, Bisi Silva, Alda Costa, Henning Mankell, and Marianne Hultman. Oslo: Oslo Kunstforening, 2009. (in Norwegian, English)
Om – berättande i svensk samtidskonst (About – Storytelling in Swedish Contemporary Art). Edited by Hultman, Marianne and Stella d’Ailly. Artists included; Dejan Antonijević, Lars Arrhenius, Loulou Cherinet, Stefan Constantinescu, Petra Lindholm, Cecilia Lundqvist, Tova Mozard, Jockum Nordström, Ylva Ogland, Johannes Sjögren, Johan Thurfjell, Snežana Vučetić Bohm, Alexander Vaindorf. Norrköping: Norrköpings konstmuseum and Riksutställningar, 2003. (in Swedish)
Det imaginära & Det konkreta (The Imaginary & the Concrete) Editors Birgitta Flensburg, Marianne Hultman. Essay by Kristina Mezei, Linda Fagerström. The exhibition was produced in collaboration between Malmö Art Museum and Norrköping Art Museum, focused on the tension between Concrete and Imaginary art between 1945 and 1956. Among the 14 included artists were; Olle Bonniér, Randi Fisher, Bertil Gadö, C.O. Hultén, Gösta Kriland, Lennart Rodhes, Max Walter Svanberg, Gudrun Åhlberg, Anders Österlin. Norrköpings Konstmuseum, 2004. (in Swedish)
Material Matters– The Substance of Textile Art.
Editors Birgitta Flensburg, Marianne Hultman. Essay by Fred Andersson, Johanna Rosenqvist. The exhibition included works by Emese Benzúr, Inger Bergström, Louise Bourgeois, Anna-Lena Carlsson, Helen Chadwick, Elisabeth Christiansson, Mike Kelly, Tarika Lennerbjörk, Edward Lipski, Maz Mohr, Cathy de Monchaux, Claes Oldenburg, Urszula Plewka-Scmidt, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Peter Rösel, Berend Strik + One Architecture, Rosemarie Trockel, Maria Wahlgren. Norrköpings Konstmuseum, 2002 (in English, Swedish)
Hjärnstorm No. 76–77 (2002): “Konst & Vetenskap” (Art & Research). Edited by Hultman, Marianne. Texts by Gertrud Sandqvist, Anna Brodow, Måns Wrange, Charlotte Bydler, Marianne Hultman, Matts Leiderstam, Carl Henrik Svenstedt, Peter Cornell, Marta Edling, Peter Hagdahl, Sven‑Olov Wallenstein, Magdalena Forshamn, Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt, and Mikael Lundberg. (in Swedish)
Hultman, Marianne, and Martin White. “Strange Attractors.” In Letters Sent from Heaven – Frozen and Vaporized Water: Ukichiro Nakaya and Fujiko Nakaya’s Science and Art,
edited by Marianne Hultman and Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2022. (in English).
Hultman, Marianne, and Anne Dressen. “Noa Eshkol, Rules, Theory & Passion: About the Status of Textiles in Her Artistic Practice.” Interview with Mooky Dagan, chair of the Noa Eshkol Foundation. In The Vessel, edited by Lars Sture, March 2022 (digital). (in English).
“As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet.” In Eline McGeorge: As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet. Oslo: OK BOOK, 2020. (in English and Norwegian).
“The Blue Hour.” In Contours, Dak’Art 13, 55–73. Dakar, 2018.
“Interview with Céline Condorelli and Uriel Orlow.” In Terrain Vague – Persistent Images, artist book by Céline Condorelli and Uriel Orlow, 2011. (in English).
Our Man in New York – An Interview with Billy Klüver on Collaborating with Moderna Museet.” In The History Book: On Moderna Museet 1958–2008. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Steidl, 2008. (in English and Swedish).
“Mud Muse 1968–1971: The Making of an Artwork.” In Teknologi för livet – Om Experiments in Art and Technology (Technology for Life – On Experiments in Art and Technology). Stockholm: Schultz Förlag, 2004. (in Swedish).
“New York Collection for Stockholm 1973.” In Teknologi för livet – Om Experiments in Art and Technology (Technology for Life – On Experiments in Art and Technology). Stockholm: Schultz Förlag, 2004. (in Swedish).
“Invigningen av Sverigehuset i maj 1969 – ett collage (The Opening of Sverigehuset in May 1969 – A Collage).” In Perspektiv på samtiden, samtida perspektiv. Forskning om det sena 1900‑talets och det nya millenniets konst och visuella kultur (Perspectives on Our Time. Exploring Art and Visual Culture at the Late 20th Century and the New Millennium), Eidos no. 6, Department of Art History, Stockholm University, 2002, 139–144. Editors: Kathryn Boyer, Hans Hayden, Anna Tellgren, and Jeff Werner. (in Swedish and English).
“The Opening of Sverigehuset in May 1969 – A Collage.” In Moderna Museet Projekt Liesbeth Bik & Jos van der Pol, Exhibition Catalogue No. 309. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2001, 67–70. (in Swedish and English).
Hultman, Marianne, and Liesbeth Bik. “The Mirror Tour: On Information, Observation, Reflection and Display.” In Moderna Museet Projekt Liesbeth Bik & Jos van der Pol, Exhibition Catalogue No. 309. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2001, 30–36. (in Swedish and English)
“Robert Rauschenbergs Mud Muse – konstens upplösning eller pånyttfödelse? (Robert Rauschenberg’s Mud Muse– Artistic Dissolution or Rebirth?).” In Art After 1945: NORDIK:s konsthistorikersymposium i Åbo den 13–16 juni 1996. Konsthistoriska studier19. Helsingfors, Finland: Föreningen för konsthistoria, 1998, 97–102.
er overskredet for politisk kunst i demokratiets sentrum” (The Boundary Has Been Crossed for Political Art in the Heart of Democracy). Aftenposten, 18.01.2026.
Hultman, Marianne. “Partisk eller upartisk – det er det store spørsmålet” (Biased or Unbiased – That Is the Big Question). Kunstavisen, 24.11.2025.
“Et forsvar for et kunstverk” (A Defence of an Artwork). Morgenbladet, 17.10.2025.
“En investering i fremtidens lokalsamfunn” (An Investment in the Local Community of the Future). Lofotposten, 13.03.2025.
“Den postmoderne antisemittismens fremvekst” (The Rise of Postmodern Antisemitism). Minerva, 05.02.2024.
Hultman, Marianne, with Cecilie Nissen. “Konsensuskultur er i ferd med å splitte kunstfeltet” (Consensus Culture Is Dividing the Art Field). Aftenposten, 23.11.2023.
Hultman, Marianne, with Cecilie Nissen and Leif Magne Tangen. “Ett gjennombrudd for kunsthaller” (A Breakthrough for Contemporary Art Centers). Nordlys, 16.10.2015.
Hultman, Marianne, with Cecilie Nissen. “Potensialet i små institusjoner” (The Potential of Small Institutions). Dagbladet, 18.03.2015.
“Feilslått kunstpolitikk” (Failed Art Policy). Dagens Næringsliv, 26.11.2014.
Hultman, Marianne, with Cecilie Nissen and Leif Magne Tangen. “Hellige som får stille ut?” (Lucky to Exhibit?). Aftenposten, 02.11.2014.
Hultman, Marianne, with Leif Magne Tangen. “Ja, takk, begge deler” (Yes, Both Please). Aftenbladet, 24.06.2014.
“Ferske penger til det visuelle feltet” (Fresh Funds for the Visual Arts). Morgenbladet, 26.04.2012.
Hultman, Marianne. “Stiller seg spørrende til Kunstkritikk” (Questions Kunstkritikk). Kunstkritikk, 26.03.2010.