Aase-Hilde Brekke
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Books
→ 2025: Shiné-tradisjonell tibetansk meditasjon
→ 2019 På tvers med performancekunst (no.)/Cross-Over Performance, by Aase-Hilde Brekke
→ 2016 «Kunst er magi/Art is Magic» article by Aase-Hilde Brekke, Norwegian Art Museum and Munch Museum, Oslo.
→ 2012 The New Collectors Book by Basak Malone
Purchase: http://thenewcollectorsbook.comMagazines
→ 2025 Masters of Today, Guggenheim & MoMA of WorldArt Issue
Coming soon
→ 2024 Masters of Today, Venice Biennial & MoMA issue of WOA, World of Art, Contemporary Art
Art reviews
→ 2024 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Aase-Hilde Brekke, art review, 2024:
https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/aase-hilde-brekke-review→ 2009 Feature Article, av Simon Cappa, Art fairs International, 15.oktober.
Interviews/TV, radio
→ 1994. NRKP2
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A selection of works
→ 2026 New York, Upcoming. ‘Daring (Im)Possibilities’, September 23 - October 3, 2026, ArtiFact, NYC, will include works by Rembrandt van Rijn, “Landscape with a Cow”, Henri Matisse, "Themes et Variations”, 1942, Pablo Picasso, "Title: Nature morte au verre”, 1945, Jean Cocteau, "Lions Club”, 1958, Oskar Kokoschka, "Musizierender Faun”, 1976, 15.75 x 11.75 inches, Etching, signed
→ 2024-2025 Bodø2024, «Kraftfjell og masker», 2025
→ 2024 MoMAG Contemporary Art Museum, Wien, Mûnchen, PAKS Gallerie, 2024
→ 2023 «Unlocking the Mystery» (Nov. 2023, grafikk, tresnitt). MIIT Museum, Milano, Italy.
→ 2023 «Spirits» (foto, fotoshop). Carouselle Du Louvre 20-22.okt., Paris, Paks Gallery.
→ 2022- «Memories in a Shoe Box”, Ma-G: Museum of Avant Garde, Contemporary Artists
→ 2021 «Black Hat Dance» (foto, 50x50 cm, aluminimum. Desemberutstillingen. Bodø kunstforening.
→ 2021 «Black and White» (Foto, 60x80 cm, aluminium), Desemberutstillingen, Trondheim Kunstforening.
→ 2021, Untold stories, H12 Galleriet, Oslo
→ 2020, Tigermassasje, performance, UIA.
→ 2018-2019, Mystic Whirling, soloutstilling, fotoutstilling, Oslo Prosjektrom og atelierfellesskap
→ 2013, Parrallax Art Fair, London
→ 2013–2015, Min syngende tromme/My singing Drum, performancer
→ 2011, Beijng Collection, New York
→ 2010, Hamburg, Marziart Internationale Galerie
→ 2010, New York, Gelabert Gallery, NYC. “Subtle Arrangements”, kurator Basak Malone
→ 2010, New York, Amsterdam Whitney Gallerie. NYC
→ 2010, New York, The Broadway Gallery NYC
→ 2008–2009 Hommage à Iver Jåks, Riddo Duottar Museat, amongst others
→ 2008, Foto, video, performance. Galleriet i Thereses gate, Oslo
→ 2003, Stemninger. Tibetans in exile i India. Foto. Alta Kunstforening
→ 2002, Performance, Tarateateret, NTNU.
→ 2005, Noe kan bare danses/Something can only be Danced, film about Tibetan ritual dances
→ 2001, RAVN/RAVEN. Experimantal art film, Trondheim Filmfestival Minimalen
→ 1998, Shangri-la, tapt for alltid?/Shangri-La, lost forever? World Artists for Tibet.
→ 1994, Entirely Buddha, performancekunst og installasjon, ISFIT-festivalen, Trondheim
→ «RAVN/RAVEN», visuell performance, video, noise, 2002–2008
→ «Krukken/The Jar», site spesific visual performance BASTARD, TAG, Trondheim, 2001
→ «Bingo», performance Lademoen Artsenter, Trondheim, 2000
→ «Das performance», Kulturetasjen 6.etg.
→ World Artist For Tibet, 1999
→ “Ju-Z”. Burlesk performance. Trondheim, 1997
→ Drøm/Dream, videoinstallasjoner, performance. NTNU, 1997
→ Pilegrimen/The Pilgrim, performance, 1996
→ Entirely Buddha, performancekunst og installasjon, ISFIT-festivalen, Trondheim, 1994
→ International Film in Trondheim, 1998
→ Foto/Grafikkutstilling, ”Misvær Bygdedager”, 1996
→ ”Det Lille Kopigalleri”, Trondheim 1999
→ ”Bryggeutstilling” i Råkvåg med fotopolymer og fotogravyr, 1995
→ Installasjon. mixed media, Kunsthøyskolen Holbech, Danmark, 1994
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Selection:
→ 2021 MA-g/The Museum of Avant Garde: https://www.ma-g.org/artists/aase-hilde-brekke/
→ 2023–2025 Norwegian Art Fund, Arts and Culture Norway Norsk Kulturfond, project support for the cultural heritage project «Å gå Jul-Anders, før og nå».
→ 2022 The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS) Nordland, «Å gå Jul-Anders, før og nå». The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS) is a nationwide programme to ensure that all school pupils in Norway experience professional arts and culture of all kinds,
→ 2022 The Ministry of Culture and Equality and the Ministry of Education and
→ 2022 Bodø2024
→ 2022 Nordland Fylkeskommune, project support
→ 2019 Science/ Forskningsmobilisering Agder
→ 2019 Fritt Ord
→ 2014 Det faglitterære fond
→ 2005 The National Art Scholarship/Statens Kunstnerstipend
→ 2002 The National Art Scholarship
→ 2016 Norsk Kulturskoleråd; Support for writing the book På tvers med performancekunst/Cross-Over Performance Art (Brekke, 2019).
→ 2019 Fritt Ord; Støtte til boken På tvers med performancekunst (Brekke, 2019).
→ 2019 Det faglitterære fond: Støtte til boken På tvers med performancekunst (Brekke, 2019).
→ 2010 Studiereise til New York i forbindelse med Marina Abramovićs performance: The Artist Is Present, FFUK (Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere)
→ 1995 The NorwegianScience Dep
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MA-g/The Museum of Avant Garde:
→https://www.ma-g.org/artists/aase-hilde-brekke/Homepage:
→www.taramedia.no→https://www.instagram.com/aasehildebrekke
Homepage, Jul-Anders: →https://jul-anders.taraexcellence.no/
Sceneweb, Tarateateret: →https://sceneweb.no/nb/organisation/1004/Tarateateret
Forbundet frie fotografer (FFF): →www.fffotografer.no/
Aase-Hilde Brekke (1962) was born and raised in a small village called Misvær, in Salten in Nordland, in Northern Norway. She works with photos, mixed-media, installations, performance art and film, as an art reviewer and author, and as a Buddhist meditation teacher. She has studied film, visual arts, theater and Performance Art in particular.
Aase-Hilde Brekke is a recognized artist and has received public support several times, amongst other from The Ministry of Culture and Equality of Norway, The Research Council of Norwegian, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nordnorsk Filmsenter AS (NNFS). When she studied Tibetan ritual dances “Gar-Cham” and Buddhism in India (1995, 1996, 1997, 2005), she received an interview and audience with H.H. Dalai Lama (1996). She has presented her scientific fieldwork in lectures at universities, at the Norwegian National Museum etc., through art-exhibitions, films, articles, and books.
Brekke has exhibited in Norway on a national level with the work Same-Lama (2008), in Hommage á Iver Jåks: dáiddabarggožat mat speadjalastet stuorra dáiddalašvuođa (2008-2010) Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Samisk kunstnersenter og Saviomuseet, which ended with a seminar at the National Museum. In the article “Kunst er magi” (No.)/”Art is Magic” in the book Bildets magi – Med Munchs fotografier som inspirasjon (Norske Kunstforeninger, 2016), she wrote an article about the exhibition of Edward Munchs selfportraits and the pedagogy of Professor Robert Meiers teaching children about his art, organized by Norske Kunstforeninger and the Munch Museum.
She has exhibited her art in the USA/New York, England, Germany, Switzerland, and France. She is presented in the The New Collectors Book (First Ed., 2011) with the photo Black Mountain (2005), in New York after exhibiting there, with the curator Basak Malone.
Brekke is represented in MA-g, Museum of Avant-Garde, Switzerland, with Memories in a Shoe Box (2021, Mini-sculpture, Original photography).
She was presented at the art fair Carouselle du Louvre in Paris, through Pax Gallery by the curator Heinz Playner (Austria), in October 2023, with Spirits (Brekke, 2021, Photo printed on metal plate. Photo, Photoshop. Size: 60 x 80 cm).
Brekke is an expert member in the scientific committee ICICH, of intangible heritage in ICOMOS International (UNESCO), Paris, and is an independent researcher on cultural heritage and art. She is head of administration, ICOMOS Norway.
Brekke leads the independent research project "Å gå Jul-Anders"(No.), a mask tradition that is practiced on the celebration of the Catholic saint St. Andreas, 30 November, in Indre Salten in Nordland (https://jul-anders.taraexcellence.no/)
I believe that every moment has a special quality and my mission as an artist is to wait until the moment reveals itself to me. That`s why I take only "one shot" of a motif with my camera. In this precious glimpses there is created a vision, a message. It is as if art creates me, not the other way around. I am just a witness.
Art represents the possibilities and glimpses of emptiness that are the gateways to heaven and sometimes hell. The moments, the gaps in between "something" and "something else" where reality shows its inner beauty and mystic content, are the moments where everything is vibrating and at the same time is standing still. Precious, silent, extraordinary streams of consciousness and glimpses of truth.
In this way I try to communicate with the world around me, and I feel very lucky being an artist: I only give an offer back to life that supports me. With all its shadows, sorrows and pain, hopes, dreams and joy, human beings have the ability to change direction since we are part of life itself.
- That is why I consider art to be a life-supporting ritual. Aase-Hilde Brekke, Norway.
