Hanan Benammar

Contact

hananbenammar@pm.me

Biography

Hanan Benammar (b. 1989, Paris) is an Algerian/French artist based in Oslo, educated at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison in France, the Academy of Fine Arts of Oslo in Norway, the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands and the Royal Institute of Art of Stockholm in Sweden.
Benammar works conceptually between geopolitical, environmental and societal issues with projects that usually unfold over a long period of time and materialise as sound and video installations, performances, music, sculpture and interventions in public space. She also curates, organises and initiates collective endeavours and platforms as a part of her art practice.
Her work has been shown and performed in numerous places, most recently at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhaguen), Radikal Unsichtbar (Hamburg), Edge of Wrong (Cape Town), Le Cube (Rabat), Black Box teater (Oslo), BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (Bergen), Ultima Contemporary Music Festival (Oslo), Bildmuseet (Umeå) and The Golden Bridge (Reykjavík).

Coming-up

Solo exhibition (retrospective), Bomuldsfabriken art center (Arendal – Norway)
Disrupting colonial monu/mentality, seminar, Art Hub Copenhaguen (Copenhagen – Denmark)

2023

TRAME residency, Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris – France)
Duo exhibition w/Mattias Cantzler, Opplandia art center (Lillehammer – Norway)
Group exhibition w/Linda Bournane Engelberth, Mattias Cantzler, Andreas Hald Oxenvad, Jan Christensen,
Anders Eiebakke, Birgitte Sigmundstad, Galerija Flora (Dubrovnik – Croatia)

Recent (selection):

Antiphony in I Call it Art!, curated by Randi Godø & Geir Haraldseth, National Museum of Norway (Oslo – Norway)
Go Eat Your Dad in Home Grown, Gallery Tom Christoffersen, curated by Beatrice Alexanian (Copenhagen – Denmark)
Antiphony in School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale (City of San Marino – San Marino)
This Is Our Body in One if by Land, Two if by Sea, curated by New Red Order, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen – Denmark)
Go Eat Your Dad in Miami Art Week, NADA, curated by Bas Fisher Invitational-BFI (Miami FL – USA)
Desert Garden in Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre], curated by Clelia Coussonnet, Le Cube (Rabat – Morocco)
L'arbre à rumeurs commissioned by the Norwegian agency for Art in Public Space (KORO) for the University of Life Sciences.
In collaboration w/Per Platou, Ase Brunborg Lie, Annike Flo, Sulekha Ali Omar, Ragnhild Aamås (Ås – Norway)
A Memorial to the French Plots of Land in Possible Monuments, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) (Göteborg – Sweden)

Articles/texts

The Universal Periodic Review - UPR (2022)

Vuvuzelas for everyone, Susanne Christensen, 20.12.22 (Danish) https://kunstkritikk.no/vuvuzelaer-til-alle/

This Is Our Body (2021)

Red New World, Louis Scherfig, 06.04.22 (Danish) https://kunstkritikk.dk/rode-nye-verden
You've never seen colonial history told like this before, Mie Obbekær, 01.06.22 (Danish) https://danwatch.dk/saadan-har-du-ikke-set-kolonihistorie-fortalt-foer/
Director at Atelier Nord, Ida Lykken Ghosh, shares her most cherished art experiences in 2021, Ida Lykken Ghosh, 15.12.21, (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/15-december-3/
Healing sounds, Mariann Enge, 03.11.21 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/healing-sounds/

Go Eat Your Dad (2021)

On the edge, Hilde Mørch, 13.05.21 (Norwegian) https://kunstavisen.no/artikkel/2021/pa-kanten
Angela Davis lives, Mariann Enge, 28.04.21 (English) https://kunstkritikk.no/angela-davis-lives/
Resistance rather than beauty, Sara Hegna Hammer, 04.07.21 (Norwegian) https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2021-04-07/velger-motstand-over-skjonnhet
Go Eat Your Dad - Reflections on Hanan Benammar’s work, Rikke Komissar, 31.03.2021 (Norwegian) https://nitja.no/nitja-online/ga-og-spis-faren-din-en-refleksjon-rundt-hanan-benammars-verk
Interested in language and power, Anne Brit Sande, 24.02.2021(Norwegian) https://www.utrop.no/nyheter/ansikt-i-fokus/247329/

Awareness, Insight, Knowledge (2020)

Tommy Sørbø’s critic has became art: - I see this as a vengeance, Anne-Lill Aas, 01.10.20 (Norwegian) https://www.ta.no/tommy-sorbos-kritikk-har-blitt-kunst-jeg-ser-pa-det-som-hevn/
The concept, Tommy Sørbø, 26.09.20 (Norwegian) https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2020-09-26/konseptet
Where art goes to die, Vilde M. Horvei, 21.09.2020 (Norwegian) https://www.norskebilledkunstnere.no/billedkunst/aktuelt/hanan-benammar-har-sett-seg-lei-av-den-ensporede-latterliggjoringen-av-kunst-med-verket-erkjennelse-innsikt-kunnskap-spiller-hun-ballen-humoristisk-tilbake-til-nrk-og-andre-mediegiganter/
Several of the well established artists are reaching a new level, Lars Elton, 17.09.20 (Norwegian) https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/2020/09/17/anmeldelse-hostutstillingen-flere-av-de-godt-etablerte-kunstnerne-viser-nye-takter/

Ways of Seeing-TV (2020)

Why am I so moved by Ways of Seeing TV?, Ane Gjort Guttu, 19.01.2021 (Norwegian) https://www.norskebilledkunstnere.no/billedkunst/aktuelt/hvorfor-blir-jeg-sa-berort-av-ways-of-seeing-tv/
The eye that sees, Sara Kollstrøm Heilevang, 15.01.21 (Norwegian) https://www.norskebilledkunstnere.no/billedkunst/aktuelt/auget-som-ser/
The preeminent art events of 2020 by the director of Tromsø Kunstforening , Leif Magne Tangen, 15.12.20 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/15-december-2/
The most notable art events of 2020, Ragnhild Aamås, 06.12.20 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/6-december-2/

Ways of Seeing (2018)

False threats, swastikas and burned cars: in Norway, the tragicomic plot of a minister's wife, Anne-Françoise Hivert, 15.10.20 (French) https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2020/10/15/fausses-menaces-croix-gammee-et-voiture-incendiee-en-norvege-la-machination-tragi-comique-de-l-epouse-d-un-ministre_6056060_4500055.html
The minister and the arsonist, Kai Strittmatter, 20.06.19 (German) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kunst-und-politik-der-minister-und-die-brandstifterin-1.4492557
It’s up to us now, Mariann Enge, 23.05.19 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/its-up-to-us-now/
An important play to see, Karen Frøsland Nystøyl, 07.05.19 (Norwegian) https://www.nrk.no/kultur/anmeldelse_-_ways-of-seeing_-1.14541357
Resignation of the Norwegian Minister of Justice after the false threats of his partner, Anne-Françoise Hivert, 29.03.19 (French) https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/03/29/demission-du-ministre-norvegien-de-la-justice-apres-les-fausses-menaces-de-sa-compagne_5442801_3210.html
What we see and what we know, Chris Erichsen, 23.11.18 https://www.scenekunst.no/sak/hva-vi-ser-og-hva-vi-vet/

More about Ways of Seeing https://www.waysofseeing.no/

Nomenrature (2017)

Radically Invisible: Decolonial Approaches to Embodied Learning and Listening Activism, Claudia Lomoschitz, 2021, p.260 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/53265/Radicalizing%20Care.pdf?sequence=1

Desert Garden (2012–)

Your garden's colonial roots, Kristoffer Viita, 25.09.20 (Swedish) https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/Eponnl/din-tradgards-koloniala-rotter
A group exhibition about human's relationship to nature, Jessika Björhn, 29.09.20 (Swedish) https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/markkontroll/
Some trees bare strange fruits, Tommy Olsson, 12.06.2019 https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2019-06-12/noen-traer-baerer-rar-frukt
Shaman anthropologist, Stian Gabrielsen, 20.01.15 (Norwegian) https://kunstkritikk.no/sjamantropologen/

Interviews

A complex history, w/Mattias Cantzler, Linn Carin Dirdal, 13.06.2023 (Norwegian) https://www.kunstsamlingen.no/aktuelt/en-kompleks-historie-benammar-cantzler
Healing sounds, Mariann Enge, 03.11.21 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/healing-sounds/
Art is by nature a subversive activity, w/Sara Baban and Pia Maria Roll, Karen Fosse Rosness 02.10.20 (English) https://kunstkritikk.com/art-is-by-nature-a-subversive-activity/
A political thugseed, Torbjørn Tumyr Nilsen, 30.03.19 (Norwegian) https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2019-03-30/et-politisk-bollefro
I just have to laugh at them, Elida Høeg, 30.11.18 (Norwegian) https://www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/2018/11/30/jeg-ma-bare-le-av-dem/