Jane Sverdrupsen

 BIOGRAPHY

Jane Sverdrupsen is a curator and visual artist based in Bergen, Norway. She holds a bachelor’s degree (2010) and a master's degree (2013) in Fine Art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design, now part of the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen (KMD). She is pursuing a PhD in artistic research at KMD (2024–2028) with a focus on the role of the artist-curator in site-specific contexts.

Sverdrupsen has served as the director of Kunstgarasjen (2023–2024) and the director of Rogaland Kunstsenter (2020–2023). Prior to these roles, she worked at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design/Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (2013–2020).

Sverdrupsen has initiated and organized curatorial projects both nationally and internationally since 2012. Sverdrupsen’s curatorial approach aims to create new spaces to experience contemporary art, often using these contexts to address societal issues. She is particularly interested in utilizing artistic processes within specific sites to form new constellations of artworks.

Notable examples of her work include co-curating the Stavanger Art Museum’s exhibition From the Balcony in 2020, and the site-specific exhibition Ultimo Scenario held in the former Children’s Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital before its demolition in 2017. She curated the group exhibition Utbrudd 2020-2021 at Rogaland Kunstsenter in 2021, which dealt with
the societal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Sverdrupsen curated Intimated Structures, the Norwegian segment of the first-ever exhibition exchange between Norway and the Dominican Republic.

Sverdrupsen’s curatorial projects and collaborations have involved a wide range of initiatives, organizations, and institutions, including Stavanger Art Museum, CulturArte Dominicana/Palacio de Bellas Artes, Arabian Film Days, Kunstfrisk at Haukeland University Hospital, F-Block Gallery in Bristol, Kraftmuseet in Odda, the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at UiB, NADA Miami, Frantz:Navle Gallery, and the Stavanger City Archives.