Marit Paasche holds an PhD in art history from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and she is the former head of research at the Norwegian Video Art Archive. She works as an independent curator and writer and her research interests span a vast area including art historiography, modernism, feminism and American and European contemporary art with a particular focus on video art and experimental film.
Paasche was curator for the Hannah Ryggen. Woven Manifestos at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt called in 2019/2020 (named one of the best art exhibitions in 2020 by Artforum). She has also curated Minervas’s Voice at Universitetsmuseet in Bergen (2019–2028); We Are Living on a Star at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (2014), and The Human Pattern at Kunsthall Oslo with Will Bradley (2011).
Paasche is the author of Hannah Ryggen. Threads of Defiance (Thames and Hudson and University of Chicago Press, 2019), named a best art book of the year by New York Times and best book of the year by Times Literary Supplement;Lives and Videotapes: The Inconsistent History of Norwegian Video Art (Feil forlag, 2014). Paasche has also been the editor of numerous books; We Are Living on a Star (Sternberg Press, 2014), Et annet lerret. Fire historier om film og billedkunst /Another Canvas. Four Stories About Film and Art (Feil forlag, 2013), A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics (Sternberg Press, 2011), and Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture (Sternberg Press 2011). Paasche is currently working on a research project on art historiography.
