Nivi Christensen

Nivi Christensen has been the Director of Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik // Nuuk Art Museum (Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland) since 2015. She is an Inuk from Kalaallit Nunaat and holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Copenhagen, where she specialized in art from and about Kalaallit Nunaat. She is a regular writer and commentator on art from Kalaallit Nunaat both locally and internationally.

Christensen is a member of a number of boards, including the National Theatre of Greenland, the board of the Association of Greenlandic Museums NUKAKA, and ICOM Denmark. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions, an advisor on major art projects both in and outside Kalaallit Nunaat, and a regular guest lecturer at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland.

Christensen works strategically to create a better framework for Greenlandic art and to strengthen the connections between indigenous people working with culture across the Arctic.