Andrea Kroksnes is an art historian, curator and art critic. She graduated in applied cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg, then studied art history and criticism at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Since autumn 2001 she has been senior curator at the Museet for Samtidskunst, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, which now, following the fusion of Oslo’s four largest museums in 2003, forms part of the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design).
Besides numerous thematic group exhibitions, Kroksnes has also curated solo exhibitions with Norwegian and international artists. She has organized many early- and mid-career exhibitions of living artists at crucial moments such as the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial with Mamma Andersson before she was recognised (2003). Kroksnes has been a lecturer at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; the University of Lüneburg, Germany; and the art academies in Oslo and Bergen, Norway ranging from introductory classes to Contemporary art to on topics like Performance, Visual Culture, Political Art, Institutional Critique and Feminism. Since 2001 she has also had a research position at Nasjonalmuseet where she has published and contributed to a number of catalogues on themes such as Arte Povera, Political Art, Appropriation Art and Art in the age of digitalization and a new reading of Louise Bourgeois. As a critic she has written essays for specialist journals and compendia such as Artforum, Kunst og Kultur, Texte zur Kunst, Springerin: Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Siksi: The Nordic Art Review, Parkett and NU.