marianne holm hansen | biography ||

Studio View, 2008

Marianne Holm Hansen works across media – including writing, drawing, photography, video and new media - to consider how we come to experience things as we do and how this potential for experiences can be changed. With a focus on interpretation, she works through personal stories, collective histories, within public sites and collections, to consider how experience is divergently formed and disseminated through customary habits — including established mtethodologies, image and language systems — for recording, representing and distributing information [as knowledge]. From here, she is interested in how an awareness of this may engender re-presentations and re-interpretations to shift existing personal and collective understandings towards new possibilities.

Often responding to specific sites and situations, the development of the work itself includes aspects of independent studio practice, research, conversation and collaboration. The latter often takes place through residencies, commissioned events or participatory projects that provides a forum for the exchange, development and public assessment of work and its ideas.

Marianne Holm Hansen studied at the Fynske Academy of Fine Art, (Denmark), the International Center of Photography (New York) and completed an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, at Goldsmiths (University of London). Her work has been shown across North|South America and Europe and she has held international residencies in the UK, USA, France and Serbia. She is currently in receipt of an Arts Council England Award to publish '100 things not worth repeating: on repetition' (LemonMelon, 2011).