She is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she teaches MA courses in contemporary art, aesthetics and cultural theory. In 2026, she teaches the MA in Curating at Aarhus University and the course ‘Design and Crisis: Architecture and Urbanism in Times of Emergency’. She also holds the position as associate professor II in art history at the University of Bergen. From 2020 – 2024 she held the position as associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where she taught and supervised at the PhD programme.
Her key research interests are aesthetics and material histories, but also include art historiography, design methodologies, artistic research, and curating, as well as cybernetics, biology, and exhibition theory. Her academic work is published in journals such as Log, Architectural Histories, Aggregate, Journal of Design History, INSERT, and Kunst og kultur, and her work as an art critic is published in art magazines, museum catalogues, and artist books.
Two books are published in 2026: The short book Design in the series ‘Philosophy now!’ published by H//O//F and Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics, forthcoming on Brill, October 2026, edited with Tonje Haugland Sørensen and Helene Engnes Birkeli.
Halland is Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway. Website: www.tio2project.com. She is also PI of the project “Extraction and Aesthetics: Unsettling Pasts, Currents, and Futures of Blue Color in Denmark and Norway 1775 – 2030” funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation (Investigator Grant in Art History). In 2025 – 2026, Halland is Principal Investigator of «Material Ecologies of Design», in collaboration with Kjetil Fallan, a research project at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), 2025 – 2026, funded by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
She is founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, an online publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur that publishes experimental essays in the fields of art and architecture.
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