We are excited to announce that the fifth NAARCA writing commission has been awarded to Anna-Maria Hällgren.

Anna-Maria Hällgren is an associate professor in art history at Umeå University and has written extensively – for both an academic and wider audience – on art, environment and climate change. Currently, she explores how artists during the late nineteenth century traveled to the northern parts of Sweden and were involved in the extractive industry at the time. Among her most recent publications are the book, co-edited with Professor Dan Karlholm, Ekologisk konstvetenskap (transl. Ecological Art History, Södertörn Academic Studies, 2024) and the article “Site/Sight: Northern Nature, Swedish Resources” in the forthcoming book Nordic Art: Landscape and Nature (Routledge), edited by MaryClaire Pappas & Tonje Haugland Sørensen.

In addition to her research and teaching, she explores new directions in academic research using practice-based methods, investigated during residencies at ZKU in Berlin, Can Serrat in El Bruc, NAHR in Bergamo and at MACBA in Barcelona. She is also an illustrator, working with collages of miscellaneous materials, for the digital magazine Anekdot (Stockholm University/The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities).