BLACK SNOW PRESS

Siri Hermansen (b. 1969) is a Norwegian filmmaker, photographer and installation artist. She holds an MFA from Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris (1997) and a BFA from Parsons School of Design (1993), and she completed her PHD at the National Academy of the arts in Oslo with her artistic research project The Economy of Survival in 2016.

Through artistic research methods she investigates unforeseen affects in societies that are undergoing deep environmental, economical, and political changes.

Siri Hermansen’s projects often share the same methodical approach where she delves into local situations and complex cases, with subjective perspectives and individual people at the center of global processes and consequences of a world in change. Her projects deals with societal trauma, public memories and resilience, in relation to capitalism, new colonialism - with democratic, legal and psychological questions  at its center.

Her work offers unusual micro-perspectives on contemporary methods of survival and processes of adaption from societies that can be considered as uncertain zones.

Hermansen has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. A selection of Biennials are the 19th. Sidney Biennial, 2014, The 15th and 17th International New Media Festival, Soul, as well as LIAF 2017, Bergen Assembly 2019, Momentum Biennial 2021.

She also participated in exhibitions at Art Stations Foundation 5050 in 2015, Würtembergischer Kunstverein 2020, The National Art Museum in Norway 2016, and has  held critically acclaimed solo exhibitions at Stenersen Art Museum 2006 and 2012, Sami Center for Contemporary Art 2018, Akershus Kunstsenter 2018 and Kunsthall 3,14 2023.

Her art has been acquired by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, North Norwegian Art Museum and private and public collections in Norway, Sweden, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

In 2018 Siri Hermansen founded Black Snow Press, an artistic platform for her artistic research, publication bureau and has since published; The Economy of Survival 2018, Apology (2020) and the artistic manifesto; I will see you when the sun rise (2023).