Hanna Husberg
Hanna Husberg (b. 1981, Finland, lives and works in Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna) is an artist based in Stockholm and a PhD candidate at the Vienna Art Academy. Her work explores the ‘unintended consequences’ of climate change, the complexity of global responsibility, and the entwinement of ecological damage with existing patterns of social inequality. It evolves between a practice of video and installation projects challenging different aspects of human physical and visual perception. Her ongoing research project Atmospheric Alienation has been developed in exhibitions and installations and through a curatorial practice with the Contingent Movements Archive and Symposium conceived for the inaugural Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Husberg was invited to the Frontiers platform by one of the initiators and advisors of the project, curator Taru Elfving. Husberg's Frontiers contributions at HIAP have included a research trip to Svalbard in collaboration with sociologist, researcher Irmelin Joelson, developing and finalising the video essay 'Free Sea' (2014) in collaboration with curator Laura McLean (UK) that premiered at the Dissolving Frontiers group exhibition at HIAP Gallery Augusta in the summer 2014 (curated by HIAP's Jenni Nurmenniemi, in dialogue with independent curator Jussi Koitela). Husberg has also actively taken part in the Frontiers incubator seminar on Utö island in September 2015 as well as the 'earth wants to be free' symposium organised by another Frontiers artist, mirko nikolic, in May 2016.
– Jenni Nurmenniemi, Curator, Frontiers in Retreat (HIAP)
