Since 2015, Nivi Christensen has been the museum director at Nuuk Art Museum in Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Copenhagen, where she specialized in art from and about Greenland. She is a regular writer and commentator on Art from Greenland both locally and internationally.
Christensen is a member of a number of boards, including the Greenlandic Museum Board, the board of the Association of Greenlandic Museums NUKAKA, she is the curator of numerous exhibitions, an advisor on major art projects both in and outside Greenland, 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 peoples working with culture across the Arctic.