Born 1969 in Aarhus, Denmark
Lives and works in Berlin

Through curating and writing, Frederikke Hansen has been engaging feminist and queer politics within Western contemporary art since the mid-1990s. Situating herself and her practice in a critical dialogue with fellow cultural workers and activists, she is steadily developing a curatorial methodology that is consistent with her social and ethico-political principles. In short, her principles and practice could be described as deconstructing privilege. Part of that process entailed emigrating from increasingly xenophobic and right-leaning Denmark and settling in Kreuzberg, Berlin in 1997 and, eight years later, founding the curatorial platform Kuratorisk Aktion together with Tone Olaf Nielsen.

Hansen has been involved in running and curating several independent art spaces, including LXX (Aarhus), Galleri Campbells Occasionally (Copenhagen), and Frø (Berlin). From 2000-04, she was working as curator at the Shedhalle in Zurich, Switzerland. Projects include: Pedigree Pal: New Definition of Family (2001), Making Peace: Shifting Paradigms of Peace and War (2003), Musik Didactique: Content and Message in Electronic Pop-Music After Techno (2003), and Citizen Queer (2004). 2005-06, Kuratorisk Aktion were employed by NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, for which they curated the postcolonial exhibition project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism.