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Maj Hasager

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen and working predominantly in text, sound, video and photography. She has studied photography and fine art in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK, and she completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, in 2008.

Her work deals with ideas and notions of power structures, identity, memory, construction of history, architecture and how these are interlinked and interpreted culturally, spatially and through representation. Her artistic approach is research-based and interdisciplinary.

She has exhibited her work internationally both in galleries and in the public realm including Future Movements, Liverpool Biennial (2010); Between Here and Somewhere Else, al-Hoash, al-Kahf gallery and Sakakini Cultural Centre, Jerusalem, Bethlehem & Ramallah (2010); and LOOP Film festival, Barcelona (2008). She is the recipient of several international residencies. Hasager is the supervisor and program leader of Critical and Pedagogical studies at Malmö Art Academy, and is teaching at the International Academy of Art – Palestine, Dar al-Kalima College, Bethlehem.