Ole Hagen
Born in Oslo (Norway).
Ole Hagen was educated at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA) and Goldsmiths College (PhD). He has published creative and critical writing include Nowhere Less Now, for Lindsay Seers’ Artangel exhibition (2012), Visual Models and New Cosmology, for conference Making Visible the Invisible, University of Huddersfield (2011), Towards an Ontology of Immanence and Introspection for conference Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm (2011), Travelling Beyond Reason catalogue essay for Lindsay Seers in Altermodern, Tate Britan, The Placebo of Love for Five Years Gallery periodical (2008), On Steinkrüge and Billy Goats, catalogue essay for United We Fall, Mark Pearson and Annie Whiles at Standpoint Gallery (2008), Entropy, Matter, Norm for Plastasine Fantazine produced for Art Writing Beyond Criticism, ICA (2008).
The artist is currently working with video, sculpture, drawings and occasionally performance. With a sculptural approach to visual media, he arranges sets, masks, props and figures in theatrical tableaux that can be animated by movement. Mental and physical space overlap to express an uncanny and darkly comical world not far from our own, where bodies are clumsy objects in animate conscious fields.
