Christine Hansen joined the Art Academy in a 50% position as Associate Professor in photography in 2024. Between 2010 and 2019, she worked as an Associate Professor at KhiB and UiB in various roles. 

Hansen has exhibited extensively and is represented in collections such as Preus Museum, the National Museum, and Haugalandmuseet. She has a PhD in Art History (UIB 2012)

2015–2018: Head of Artistic Research 
2018–2019: Head of Education 
2015–2020: Board member of the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (NARP)

She has supervised at all levels and has been part of evaluation committees for artistic research.

Hansen's artistic research investigates how photography and other media (cyanotype, video, sound, watercolor, text) can generate knowledge about landscape, ecology, and memory. She work site-specifically and source-based, combining sensorial fieldwork with readings of historical and scientific materials. Methodologically, Hansen move between imprint, temporal trace, and representation to illuminate relationships between materiality, time, and place.

A more-than-human perspective runs throughout her practice: the works allow biological actors, ecological processes, and local management regimes to participate in knowledge production. In this way, Hansen examine the epistemology of photography in its encounters with nature and memory—how image practices can be sensorially expansive, archive-critical, and socially relevant.

Examples span from desert fieldwork examining landscapes often perceived as empty yet ecologically fragile and complex (Ørkendveling), to underwater studies in marine ecosystems (Nedsenket natur), to investigations of invasive species that bring together local knowledge, regulatory debate, and natural science (The Queen Crab). The projects evolve through sensory experience and methodological reflection, seeking to expand contemporary photography’s role as a knowledge-bearing and experience-forming medium.

Christine Hansen's pedagogical practice has developed through many years of work as an artist, researcher, and educator, and is grounded in a combination of artistic practice, critical inquiry, and situated learning processes. Hansen understand art education as dialogical and exploratory, where knowledge is developed through encounters with materials, sites, histories, and ideas. She has developed and led workshop-based courses, field studies, seminars, and lectures.

Teaching and supervision since 2024

2025:

• PhD candidate in Artistic Research: 

  Charlotte Pannicke (UiS) (defence september 2025)

  Arlid Våge Berge

   Kjersti Sundland (Coo-supervisor)

•  MA & BA students in Fine Art
• MEME 105: Introduction to Photography

2024:

• PhD candidate in Artistic Research: Charlotte Pannicke (UiS),  
• MA & BA students in Fine Art

• MEME 105: Introduction to Photography