Vibe Nielsen
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
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Research Fellow at Linacre College, Associate Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Academic Visitor at the Department of the History of Art, University of Oxford.
Member of the Young Academy at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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As the Principal Investigator of the research project Passion or Politics? The Art Collection of Carl Jacobsen in a Socio-Economic and Cultural Political Context 1878-1914​ funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Vibe Nielsen examines the international influences that motivated the establishment of the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Which cultural political agendas are reflected in the collection and exhibition practices of Carl Jacobsen and how were the artworks he collected used – and exhibited – as tools to educate the public? As part of her research project, Vibe Nielsen holds a Research Fellowship at Linacre College, University of Oxford, where she is also affiliated with the Pitt Rivers Museum as Associate Researcher and the Department of the History of Art as Academic Visitor.
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2021-2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
As the Principal Investigator of the research project Decolonising Museums: Changing Curatorial Practices at the Pitt Rivers and Quai Branly funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, Vibe Nielsen examined the links between museums and activism and explored how recent calls for decolonisation impact museum practices in the leading ethnographic museums of the two most dominant former colonial powers in Europe, the United Kingdom and France. The main focus of the research project was the changing curatorial practices at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and le Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where debates about decolonisation and repatriation have been central in recent years. As part of her research project, Vibe Nielsen held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, University of Oxford.
2019-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
In the research project Global Europe: Constituting Europe from the outside in through artefacts funded by the Danish Research Council, Vibe Nielsen worked on issues related to the curatorial challenges in the exhibition of art from South Africa that she had explored as part of her doctoral fieldwork in South Africa (2016-2018). This work led to the publication of several journal articles, as well as a book chapter in the project anthology Global Art in Local Art Worlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value that she co-edited with Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa and Jens Sejrup and published with Routledge in 2023.
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2016-2019: PhD Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
In the research project Global Europe: Constituting Europe from the outside in through artefacts funded by the Danish Research Council, Vibe Nielsen explored how demands for recognition are influencing debates about curation and decolonisation in contemporary South Africa, where a wish to be recognised on the international art scene is constantly present in museum settings, art fairs and exhibitions. Vibe Nielsen completed her PhD in Anthropology with a thesis entitled Demanding Recognition: Curatorial Challenges in the Exhibition of Art from South Africa (2019) supervised by Prof. Oscar Salemink and Prof. Bjarke Oxlund.
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2015-2016: Curator of Public Programmes at the National Museum of Denmark
After having worked as a part-time Educator and Tour Guide in the exhibitions Stories of Denmark 1660-2000 and Mennesker i Krigen 1864 in Prinsens Palæ, as well as in the Brede Works Museum, the Open Air Museum and Fyrskib XVII Gedser Rev, during her studies at the University of Copenhagen, Vibe Nielsen was employed as Curator of Public Programmes at the National Museum of Denmark. Here, she developed teaching material and guided tours in relation to the temporary exhibition The White Busses as well as the Middle Ages and Renaissance galleries and the ethnographic collections.
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With Global Summer School on 'Indigenous Peoples and Development' at the Australian National University through the International Alliance of Research Universities (2013) and Internship at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris (2014), as well as part-time job as Educator and Tour Guide at the Post and Tele Museum (2011-2013) and the National Museum of Denmark (2009-2015). Vibe Nielsen completed her MA in Modern Culture with a thesis entitled Museale Formidlinger af Fortiden som Kolonimagt: En komparativ analyse af, hvordan danske og britiske museer formidler den internationale kolonihandel og dens nutidige konsekvenser (2015) supervised by Associate Prof. Anne Ring Petersen.
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2011-2012: MA in Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London​​
With Internship at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2012) and part-time job at the Casa Brazil exhibition at Somerset House (2012). Vibe Nielsen completed her MA in Museum Studies with a thesis entitled Dealing with a Difficult Past: British Disseminations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2012) supervised by Prof. Paul Basu.
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2007-2010: BA in European Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
With part-time job as Educator and Tour Guide at Roskilde Museum (2008-2009) and the National Museum of Denmark (2009-2015). Vibe Nielsen completed her BA in European Ethnology with a thesis entitled Fattigdom – Naturens Orden eller en Vej til Revolution? (2010) supervised by Associate Prof. Anne Leonora Blaakilde.
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