Welcome to CIMAM to Håkon Lillegraven!

"I see CiMAM as an invaluable producer and disseminator of discourse and tools to work ethically and sustainably in the professional field and development of global and regional museums today. I’m honoured to become a part of CiMAM's formidable membership body, which will surely contribute to my career development as a curator, producer, writer and and arts mediator in the art and culture field, where I have been active for several years, but only recently in the international museum sector".

Håkon Lillegraven, Curator of Education and Public Programmes, Nasjonalmuseet (The National Museum), Oslo, Norway.

"In my position at The National Museum in Oslo, Norway I will be working with temporary exhibition projects and the development of relationships to new audiences. I see myself as working for transmitters of diverse forms of knowledge, and addressing visibility and inclusion through a lens of sustainability and structural integrity. The aim is always that the many ethical questions surrounding this both reach and are defined by new voices in art institutions and museum spaces. Towards this, I think CiMAM offers the most valuable professional network and resources I could hope for”.

About Håkon

Håkon Lillegraven is a curator, art mediator and writer, based in Oslo, Norway, with a special interest in queer, norm-critical, and performative practices, and artistic practices and stakeholders within these. He is currently Curator of Education and Public Programmes at the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet) in Oslo, Norway.

From 2020-2024 he was Curator and Head of Mediation at Fotogalleriet under Artistic Director Antonio Cataldo, where he was part of developing groundbreaking projects in a Norwegian context Claiming Space and Queer Icons (Skeive Ikoner). In 2023 he was a curatorial resident at ISCP - international studio and curatorial programme in New York City. Collaboratively, he has curated exhibitions and public programmes for The Vigeland Museum, Kunsthall Trondheim, BO (The Association of Visual Artists in Oslo), and Femidomen, amongst others, and held editorial responsibilities for the publications ‘And Their Spirits Move On’ by artist Marianne Heier, and ‘Conversations on Photography’, published by Fotogalleriet and Kehrer Verlag. As a writer Lillegraven has contributed to Kunstkritikk - Nordic Art Review, C-print, Billedkunst and ArtNotes, to name a few.

About CIMAM

CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – is an Affiliated Organization of ICOM.* Founded in 1962, CIMAM’s vision is a world where the contribution of museums, collections, and archives of modern and contemporary art to the cultural, social, and economic well-being of society is recognized and respected.

Join today, and take part in our network with over 700 contemporary art museum professionals from over 80 countries.

Thank you, Håkon Lillegraven, for becoming a member of CIMAM!