VIBE NIELSEN

Social anthropologist with a background in Museum Studies, Modern Culture and European Ethnology, working on issues related to the decolonisation of museums, botanical gardens and public places.​

 

Vibe Nielsen holds a PhD in Anthropology (2019), an MA in Modern Culture (2015) and a BA in European Ethnology (2010) from the University of Copenhagen, as well as an MA in Museum Studies (2012) from University College London. She is currently affiliated as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, where she leads the three-year research project Passion or Politics? The art collecting practices of Carl Jacobsen in a socioeconomic and cultural political context 1878-1914. The research project, which is funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, examines the international influences and cultural political agendas that motivated the establishment of the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

 

In continuation of her three years as Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford (2021-24), Vibe Nielsen is affiliated as Associate Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum and holds a Research Fellowship at Linacre College. She is furthermore affiliated with the University of Oxford as an Academic Visitor at the Department of the History of Art and was recently elected Member of the Young Academy at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.

 

Vibe Nielsen has worked and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a long list of institutions, including museums, universities, botanical gardens and other cultural organisations in Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

 

The findings of her research is published in English, French and Danish, in academic, peer-reviewed journals and anthologies for academic and broader audiences alike. She regularly communicates her research in newspapers, online magazines, radio programmes and podcasts, as well as in guest lectures and public talks.