Morten Traavik

Morten Traavik (b 1971, Norway) is a director and artist.

He made his breakthrough as an artist with the beauty contest Miss Landmine (Angola 2008 and Cambodia 2009), the first in a series of controversial and boundary-breaking art projects.

Traavik has published two books: Djevelen er en fallen engel (The Devil is a fallen angel, 2013) and A Traitor’s Guide to North Korea, 2018. He also co-authored Shabana Rehman’s autobiography My Nine Lives, published in 2023.