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Stefanie Hessler

Stefanie Hessler is an international contemporary art curator, writer and the current director of Kunsthall Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway.

Education
Hessler studied at Stockholm University where she received her MA in art curation in 2011.

Career
Hessler has worked with notable artists such as Joan Jonas, curating her 2018 performance at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall entitled "Moving Off The Land" and her 2019 exhibition and performance "Moving Off The Land II" at Ocean Space, Venice, Italy. In 2018 Hessler was named one of three curators for 6th edition of the Athens Biennale which took place in the abandoned TTT building and Benekeios Library in Athens, Greece, as well as the exhibition "Prospecting Ocean" with artist Armin Linke at the Marine Institute of Science in Venice, Italy which featured three years of research on deep sea mining that was commissioned by TBA21-Academy and in partnership with Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR). In 2017 she curated the exhibition "Sugar and Speed" at the Museum of Modern Art in Recife, Brazil In 2015 Hessler curated the 8th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Norway alongside Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Birta Gudjonsdottir, and Toke Lykkeberg. Hessler is the co-founder of the experimental performance space "AndQuestionMark" along with artist Carsten Höller

Writing
Hessler is the author of Prospecting Ocean published by MIT Press which investigates "the entanglement of industry, politics, culture, and economics at the frontier of ocean excavations through an innovative union of art and science." Hessler is also the editor of the book Tidalectics also from MIT Press, which is a collection of essays, research, and art projects that imagines an oceanic worldview. Hessler is a regular contributor for Art Review Art Agenda and Mousse Magazine.