About Aase-Hilde
Aase-Hilde Brekke (1962) was born and raised in a small village called Misvær, in Salten in Nordland, in Northern Norway. She has studied film, visual arts, theater/performance art in particular. She works with photos, mixed-media, installations, performance art and film, as an art reviewer and author, and as a Buddhist meditation teacher.
Aase-Hilde Brekke is a recognized artist and has received public support several times, amongst other from The Ministry of Culture and Equality of Norway, The Research Council of Norwegian, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nordnorsk Filmsenter AS (NNFS). When she studied Tibetan ritual dances “Gar-Cham” and Buddhism in India (1995, 1996, 1997, 2005), she received an interview and audience with H.H. Dalai Lama (1996). She has presented her scientific fieldwork in lectures at universities, at the Norwegian National Museum etc., through art-exhibitions, films, articles, and books. She was accepted as an Assosiate Proffessor in Contemporary Art.
Brekke has exhibited in Norway on a national level with the work Same-Lama (2008), in Hommage á Iver Jåks: dáiddabarggožat mat speadjalastet stuorra dáiddalašvuođa (2008-2010) Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Samisk kunstnersenter og Saviomuseet, which ended with a seminar at the National Museum. In the article Kunst er magi (No.)/Art is Magic in the book Bildets magi – Med Munchs fotografier som inspirasjon (Norske Kunstforeninger/The Norwegian Art Assosiation, 2016), she wrote an article about the exhibition of Edward Munchs selfportraits and the pedagogy of Professor Robert Meiers teaching children about his art. The exhibition and project was organized by The Norwegian Art Assosiation and The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
She has exhibited her art in the USA/New York, England, Germany, Switzerland, China and France. She is presented in The New Collectors Book (First Ed., 2011) with the photo Black Mountain (2005), in New York after exhibiting there, with the curator Basak Malone.
Brekke is represented in MA-g, Museum of Avant-Garde, Switzerland, with Memories in a Shoe Box (Mini-sculpture, photography, photo, shoe-box, shell, see-weed).
Brekke was presented at the art fair Carouselle du Louvre in Paris, through Paks Gallery by the curator Heinz Playner (Austria), in October 2023, with Spirits (Brekke, 2014, Photo printed on metal plate. Photo, Photoshop. Size: 60 x 80 cm).
Brekke is an expert member in the scientific committee ICICH, of intangible heritage in ICOMOS International (UNESCO), Paris, and is an independent researcher on cultural heritage and art. She was the head of administration, ICOMOS Norway for 7 years.
Brekke leads the independent research project “Å gå Jul-Anders”(No.), a mask tradition that is practiced on the celebration of the Catholic saint St. Andreas, 30 November, in Indre Salten in Nordland (jul-anders.no)