Renowned Swedish curator Maria Lind will talk about her professional trajectory, and how her context-sensitive curatorial methodology—involving self institutionalisation, displacement, art-centricity, embeddedness, pervasive eclecticism, and proximity—developed along the way. After the talk, please join us for a reception.
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Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator from Sweden. She is Director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, and teaches at Konstfack’s CuratorLab, Stockholm. She was Counsellor of Culture at the Swedish embassy in Moscow (2020–3); and Director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2011–8); the 2016 Gwangju Biennale (2016); Iaspis, Stockholm (2005–7); Kunstverein München (2002–4); and Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998). She co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara (2019), and Future Light for the first Vienna Biennial (2015). She has been Professor of Artistic Research at Oslo’s Art Academy (2015–8), and Director of the graduate program at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in upstate New York (2008–10). Her books include Konstringar: Vad Gör Samtidskonsten? (2021), Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 (2019), and Selected Maria Lind Writing (2010). She received the 2009 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.
'Marion von Osten with Peter Spillman: Viet Nam Discourse Stockholm', Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, 2016. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
