ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´

My postdoctoral project investigates the extraction of cobalt blue pigment in Norway, where I "trace" the pigment in various art materials and expressions. Can cobalt tell us something about the relationship between design, art, politics and resource use in the 18th and 19th centuries? How can we look at today's technological dependence on cobalt through its origins in the arts and crafts?

The cobalt project stems thematically from my PhD research on Danish-Norwegian colonialism, where I investigated how the state visualized territories through mapping, landscape paintings and graphic prints. Through several visual media, the Danish-Norwegian state made the Danish West Indies productive as an agricultural and trading colony, and thereby also attempted to justify slavery and ideological racism. I have published this research in several article publications, and I am also working towards the publication of a monograph.

I am co-curator of the exhibition Nordmandsdalen: Art, power and materials in 18th-century Denmark-Norway (Kode, 23 May-12 October 2025)

I am editing the book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics (Brill, 2025) together with Tonje Haugland Sørensen and Ingrid Halland.

As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I am a part of the NFR project "NorWhite: How Norway Made the World Whiter" and collaborate with, among others, Kode, Blaafarveværket and Moving Monuments: The Material Life of Sculpture from the Danish Colonial Era (University of Copenhagen).