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Matriarkatet

Hi there. Thank you for having an interest in irregular updates about me and what I’m up to. I’ll try to not make it weird, but I make no promises.

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Latest Issues

This is Me

This is Hanne (2026), the first in my series Angry Women, that I began working on earlier this year. It is based on self-portraits, and is made with charcoal and acrylic paint on a stretched canvas 50 x 60 cm.

In the painting, two faces s...

10 days ago
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The One That Got Away

Today I will collect my things from the home I tried to build with the man I thought I would spend my life with. Today I will try to remain calm as I bring my empty suitcase on the bus, and not break down too loudly while on public transpor...

22 days ago
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A Woman's Place is in the Revolution

Growing up, there was Barbie, and then there was Modesty Blaise. My older brother used to read Agent X9, and I “borrowed” them, feeling as if I saw a part of the world that wasn’t meant for me. I adored Modesty. She was powerful, intelligen...

2 months ago
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Suddenly August

Hello there.

My summer holiday is nearly over, and it always feels so sudden. On Monday I’ll be back in my office to resume work on our main project this year: an exhibition at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology celebrating the...

2 months ago

This is a Start

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pret...

3 months ago

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    Hanne is a social pedagogue, artist, educator and writer, working with graffiti and street art, activism, politics, environmental psychology, project development, curation, production, communication, and festival management.

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