Torill Østby Haaland (b. 1976, Oslo) is a curator at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Lofoten. She has facilitated and curated exhibitions and other projects in Northern Norway since 2010. Torill has an MA in Art History from The University in Oslo (2006), and an MA in Curatorial Practice from The University in Bergen (2019). Among exhibitions she has co-curated can be mentioned «Reflex” (co- curated with Jan-Erik Lundström, 2012), «Skills – thinking through making, telling by hand» (co- curated with Putte H. Dal and Janne Juvi Rasmussen, 2014), “The festival that wouldn’t sink – Lofoten Art Festival 1991-2013” (co-curated with Svein Pedersen, 2015) and «Paradise and Barbed Wire. Tor Esaissen at the cross road in Sørvågen» (co-curated with Kjetil Berge and Svein Pedersen, 2017). In 2019 she was co-curator for Lofoten International Art Festival, together with Neal Cahoon, Hilde Methi and Karolin Tampere. Among solo-curated exhibitions can be mentioned “Bad Luck and Bunches” with artists Philipp Spillmann and Lillian Tørlen (2018), “Homage and Diversion. Reimagining a Movie Theatre” with artists Helene Sommer and Kjell Ove Storvik (2019) and “On Wood and Water” with artists Even Bie-Larsen and Elisabet Alsos Strand (2020).
