Talk
Critical Spatial Practice: Maria Lind
Maria Lind, professor of artistic research at KHiO, is a curator and critic based in Stockholm, and she will talk about her curating practice.
During the talk, Maria Lind will focus specially on a number of different art exhibitions and other projects that she has curated since the 1990s, and the different forms of publicness that they entail. Examples will range from Moderna Museet Projekt, What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, a retrospective with Christine Borland at Kunstverein München, Bernd Krauss’ residency at CCS Bard, Ahmet Ögut’s The Silent University and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s T.451, both at Tensta konsthall.
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm. She is the director of Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, and has been the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale in 2016. She was director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008-2010) and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007). From 2002-2004 she was the director of Kunstverein München where, together with a curatorial team including the curator Sören Grammel, she ran a program including artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, responsible for Moderna Museet Projecs with 29 commissions with among others Simon Starling, Apolonija Sustersic, Koo Jeong-a and Matts Leiderstam, and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, for example at the Art Academy in Munich and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Currently she is professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. Among her recent co-edited publications are Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios, Performing the Curatorial: With and Beyond Art, and Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe, all at Sternberg Press. She edited Abstraction as part of MIT’s and Whitechapel Gallery’s series Documents on Contemporary Art. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In the fall of 2010, Sternberg Press published Selected Maria Lind Writing.
