KHMxMMM: Marianne Heier – Activations

“ACT” is an 8-year long, ongoing performance work to implement the UN’s Convention on Statelessness in Norwegian legal practice, and the performance work “La Passione” examines the visual and political legacy of Italian radical feminism.
Marianne Heier (b. 1969) is a visual artist educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and Oslo. Her work is often categorized as institutional critique; she herself calls her projects activations. She often starts from questions related to distribution of resources and power. The gift and its inherent power are recurrent in Heier’s work, both as a theme and a strategy. Through methods borrowed from activism, theater and anthropology, she challenges internalized structural hierarchies and allows repressed perspectives and unexplored possibilities to come to light. The result is presented as a performance, text, installation, objects, photo, video or various forms of architectural interventions. Heier lives and works in Oslo.

About Marianne Heier

Marianne Heier’s work has been shown at Kunstnernes Hus, UKS, Fotogalleriet, National Museum, Henie Onstad Art Center, Stavanger Art Museum, Munch Museum, Trondheim Art Museum, Kunsthall Trondheim, Stenersenmuseet, Malmö Art Museum, Heirloom CAA, CAPC Bourdeux, Bomuldfabriken, Sandefjord Kunstforening, SKMU, Kunsthall Oslo and Overgaden among others. She has produced public artworks for KORO, National Tourist Routes and Radar. In 2012 she was a festival exhibitor in Bergen, and in 2013 she received the Lorck Schive art prize.