Aase-Hilde Brekke
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→ 2025 Masters of Today, Guggenheim & MoMA of WorldArt Issue
→ 2024 Masters of Today, Venice Biennial & MoMA issue of WOA, World of Art, Contemporary Art
→ 2024 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Aase-Hilde Brekke, art review, 2024:
https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/aase-hilde-brekke-review?rq=aase-hilde%20brekke→ 2012 The New Collectors Book by Basak Malone: http://thenewcollectorsbook.com
→ 2009 Feature Article, av Simon Cappa, Art fairs International, 15.oktober.
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A selection of exhibitions
→ 2024–2025 Bodø2024, “Power Mountains and Masks”, 2025
→ 2024 MoMAG Contemporary Art Museum, Vienna, Munich, PAKS Gallery, 2024
→ 2023 “Unlocking the Mystery”, woodcut, MIIT Museum, Milan, Italy
→ 2023 “Spirits” (photo, Photoshop). Carrousel du Louvre, ArtShopping, Oct. 20–22, Paris
→ 2022–present “Memories in a Shoe Box”, Ma-G: Museum of Avant Garde, Contemporary Artists
→ 2021 “Black Hat Dance” (photo, 50x50 cm, aluminum). December Exhibition, Bodø Art Association
→ 2021 “Black and White” (photo, 60x80 cm, aluminum), December Exhibition, Trondheim Art Association
→ 2021 Untold Stories, H12 Gallery, Oslo
→ 2020 “Tiger Massage”, performance, University of Agder
→ 2018–2019 “Mystic Whirling”, solo exhibition, photos, Oslo Project Room and studio collective
→ 2013 Parallax Art Fair, London
→ 2013–2015 My Singing Drum, performance
→ 2011 Beijing Collection, New York
→ 2010 Hamburg, Marziart International Gallery
→ 2010 New York, Gelabert Gallery, NYC. “Subtle Arrangements”, curator Basak Malone
→ 2010 New York, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, NYC
→ 2010 New York, The Broadway Gallery, NYC
→ 2010 The Norwegian Theatre, film, Oslo
→ 2008–2009 Hommage à Iver Jåks, Riddo Duottar Museat, Sámi Collection, among others
→ 2008 Photo, video, performance. Artist Gallery in Thereses Gate, Oslo
→ 2002–2008 “RAVN/RAVEN”, visual performance, video, noise (12 performances), Tarateateret
→ 2003 “Atmospheres”. Tibetans in exile in India. Photo. Alta Art Association
→ 2002 Performance, Tarateateret, NTNU
→ 2005 “Something Can Only Be Danced”, film about Tibetan ritual dances
→ 2001 “RAVN/RAVEN”. Experimental art film, Trondheim Film Festival Minimalen
→ 1998 “Shangri-La, Lost Forever?” World Artists for Tibet
→ 1994 Entirely Buddha, performance art and installation, ISFiT Festival, Trondheim
→ 2001 “The Jar”, site-specific visual performance, BASTARD Festival, Trondheim Avant Garde Scene, Tarateateret
→ 2000 “Bingo”, performance, Lademoen Art Center, Trondheim
→ 1990s “Das Performance”, The Culture Floor/Art Group, 6th Floor
→ 1999 World Artists for Tibet
→ 1997 “Ju-Z”, burlesque performance, Trondheim
→ 1997 Dream, video installations, performance, NTNU
→ 1996 The Pilgrim, performance
→ 1994 Entirely Buddha, performance art and installation, ISFiT Festival, Trondheim
→ 1998 International Film in Trondheim
→ 1996 Photo/print exhibition, “Misvær Village Days”
→ 1999 “The Little Copy Gallery”, Trondheim
→ 1995 “Pier Exhibition” in Råkvåg with photopolymer and photogravure
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Awards and public support and scholarships, a selection from the list of support of 45 times
→ 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
→ 2022 The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS) Nordland
→ 2023 The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS) Nordland
→ 2024 The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS) Nordland
→ 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
→ 1995 The Norwegian Culture Department
→ 2002 The National Art Scholarship
→ 1995 The Norwegian Science Department
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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. She is accepted as an associated professor in modern art.
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.
