Hilde Krohn Huse
Born in Norway, working in UK.
Hilde Krohn Huse (b. 1988) is a Norwegian multidisciplinary artist based in the UK, working across film, performance, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and textiles. Her work examines the construction of identity, the instability of belonging, and the ways personal and collective histories shape our understanding of home.
Huse was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015 and gained international attention for her video performance Hanging in the Woods. Her subsequent practice has continued to explore the relationship between the self and its representation, shifting towards questions of immigration, cultural inheritance and the narratives through which identity is formed.
Drawing on Norwegian national romanticism (Nasjonalromantikken), familial archives and culturally significant objects, Huse investigates the tension between lived experience and idealised notions of national identity. Through the material languages of textiles, found objects and sculpture, she considers how histories are preserved, reconstructed and sometimes imagined, particularly in relation to displacement and the longing for a homeland.
Her practice moves between the personal and the collective, approaching identity not as a fixed inheritance but as something continually assembled through memory, material culture and the desire to belong. Currently undertaking a part-time Master of Research at the Royal College of Art, Huse is developing an interdisciplinary research practice that brings artistic experimentation into dialogue with archival research and questions of cultural memory.
Education
2012 - 2014
MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art
2009 - 2012
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Shortlisted
2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2014
Aspen Online Art Award
Exhibitions
2019
‘Through a Forest Wilderness’ Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2018
‘Through a Forest Wilderness’ Berlin Forest, Germany
‘When Our Lips Speak Together’, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK
‘River in an Ocean’, Lahore Biennale, Pakistan
2017
‘Through a Forest Wilderness’ Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany
'Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare (Part IV)', Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2016
'They Take Your Photograph, You Come Into Existence', Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norway
‘Defaced’ Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
'Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare (Part III)', The Link Galley, Halifax, UK
‘Elles in Rouge: XX Protagonists’, Artworks, London
‘Nothing Happens, Twice’, Harris Museum, Preston, UK
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, ICA, London
2015
‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Backlit, Nottingham
‘Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare’, Paper Gallery, Manchester
‘Young Gods’, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
‘Young Gods’, Griffin Gallery, London
2014
‘Designing a Moment’, Museum of London, London
'Slade MA/MFA Fine Art Degree Show', London
‘SE23 Film Festival’, London
‘Digital Late', Museum of London, London
‘In Da House’, London
2013
‘Slade Interim 2013’, London
2012
‘Milk Money’, Redchurch Street Gallery, London