Exhibition Opening 03.07.25 kl. 18:00
In 2019, Hilde Angel Danielsen was invited to have a solo art exhibition at SDG. Then came the pandemic. COVID-19 affected the artist, SDG, and the entire world. We were forced to stop, we went into quarantine, we had to make choices. Opportunities were lost, and new ones emerged. The pandemic closed doors—and opened new ones. Which entrance did you take into the pandemic? And which exit?
Danielsen created The Corona Corridors. These can now be experienced alongside a range of other artworks in her solo exhibition at SDG.
At the same time as the pandemic struck, the counties of Troms and Finnmark were merged. Hilde Angel Danielsen, who is originally from Troms, became curious about her new home county. This curiosity is also explored in her works in this exhibition.
Hilde A Danielsen’s artworks balance within an expanded field of spatial art, installation, and sculpture—either freestanding or site-specific—with references to architecture and landscape. Danielsen has participated in numerous art exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects in Norway and abroad, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Australia, and has created large-scale site-specific artworks.
In 2025, she is holding a solo exhibitions at the Sami Center for Contemporary Art (SDG) in Kárášjohka/ Karasjok, Finnmark, and at Galleri N. Bergslien in Eidfjord, Hardanger. She is the recipient of the Eidfjord Municipality Artist Grant, project support from the City of Bergen, and a grant from BKH (Relief Fund for Visual Artists) via SDG. Upcoming projects include a public art commission at Rena Military Camp and curatorial work at Bardufoss Military Camp for the Norwegian Armed Forces and KORO (Art in Public Space).
Danielsen is participating online in Wallstreet Stockholm 2025 and CraftHub Tiles and Bricks in Portugal. She took part in IPIHAN#13 during Rotterdam Art Week 2024 and attended the Summer AiR 2024 residency at Mottaket in Ålesund. In 2023, Danielsen was the anniversary exhibitor for the 90th jubilee of Nils Aas Artist Workshop in Muustrøparken, Inderøy, Trøndelag, and exhibited at NordArt 2023 in Büdelsdorf, Germany, as well as at the Salangen Biennale 2023 – IPIHAN#13 (If paradise is half as nice) in Troms. The latter has been turned into a documentary film of the same name.
Danielsen also participated in Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2022 in Perth and Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2022 in Sydney, Australia, the same year she held a residency in Carss Park, Sydney, NSW. Her work is represented in public and private art collections in Oslo, Trondheim, Ibestad, and Tromsø municipalities in Norway; Stockholm County, Sweden; Gdansk, Poland; Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia; and Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, USA.
Artist Statement
Themes that frequently recur in my work include words and concepts such as: time, transitions, movement, space, place, change, and immaterial value. I create artworks and spatial expressions using metaphors as well as literal interpretations of words and their multiple meanings. By utilizing familiar building elements from industry or nature, staged in new compositions, I aim to open up reflections on choices in our own lives and the society we live in. Dark humor applied to serious dilemmas is a key driving force in my artistic practice.
