Maj Hasager

Born 1977 in Randers/Denmark.

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen/Denmark. She studied photography and fine art in Denmark, Sweden, and Great Britain, earning an MFA from Malmö Art Academy at Lund University, Sweden. Her work deals with power structures, identity, memory, the construction of history, and architecture, looking at how these interlinked phenomena are interpreted and represented culturally and spatially. Her artistic approach is research based and interdisciplinary, and she works predominantly with text, sound, video, and photography.

She has exhibited her work internationally in events and institutions such as Moderna Utställningen, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden (2014), A voice of ones own, Malmö Konstmuseum (2014), Past Upon Past, Red Barn Photo Gallery, Belfast/Ireland (2013), Decembers, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk/Poland (2012), Liverpool Biennial, Great Britain (2010).