Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has studied photography and fine art in Denmark, Sweden and in the UK, and she completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden in 2008.

 

Her work deals with ideas and notions of power structures, identity, memory, construction of history, architecture and how these are interlinked and interpreted culturally, spatially and through representation. Her artistic approach is research-based and interdisciplinary, working predominantly in text, sound, video and photography.

 

She has exhibited her work internationally both in galleries and in the public realm including Future Movements Liverpool Biennial (2010), Between Here and Somewhere Else, al-Hoash, al-Kahf gallery and Sakakini Cultural Centre, Jerusalem, Bethlehem & Ramallah (2010) The Other Shadow of the City, al-Hoash, Jerusalem (2009); Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art (2009), Copenhagen; A farewell to postcolonialism - The Third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); A Public Affair - Gallery 21, Malmö (2008); LOOP Film festival, Barcelona (2008); EMERGED Space, Glasgow (2007); KargArt festival in Istanbul (2007).

 

She is the recipient of several international residencies, and in 2009 she undertook four residency periods of research, one in Akureyri, Iceland, two at the A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah and one at The National Workshops for Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hasager has been awarded grants in support of her work from the Danish Arts Council, The Danish Arts Foundation, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, ArtSchool Palestine, Danish Centre for Culture and Development and the Danish Arts Agency.

Since 2007 she has spent a significant amount of time in Palestine and Israel, both researching for independent film/photo projects, and delivering creative workshops. She is the supervisor and programme leader of Critical and Pedagogical studies at Malmö Art Academy, and is teaching at the International Academy of Art – Palestine, Dar al-Kalima College, Bethlehem. She occasionally writes essays, catalogue texts and articles.