Hanne Beate Ueland is director of Stavanger Art Museum. She holds an MA (candidata Philologiae) in Art History with a thesis on exhibition design and institutional history. Ueland’s background in Norwegian art museums includes working as museum educator at Bergen Art Museum (2001–03) and curator at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (2003–14). She has staged numerous exhibitions on contemporary art, both thematic and monographic. In recent years she has co-curated exhibitions at the Stavanger Art Museum, including Bill Viola – Into the Light (2021) and Kvinne: 1970-tallets feministiske avant-garde (2018). Ueland has written extensively on contemporary art and contributed to the publication of a number of exhibition.