In this presentation, curator Maria Lind talks about her work from the Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm to the Gwangju Biennale, and how a context-sensitive curatorial methodology took shape along the way.

Lind will explore the central parts of this methodology: self-institutionalization, displacement, art-centricity, embeddedness, pervasive eclecticism, and the proximity principle. After the talk, please join us for a reception.

Lind is the Director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna. She has held various roles in recent years including Director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Artistic Director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale; and Director of Kunstverein München, Munich.

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Guest biography

Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator from Stockholm, Sweden. She is currently the Director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. Lind served as the Counsellor of Culture at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow (2020–2023), Director of Tensta Konsthall (2011–2018), Artistic Director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008–2010), Director of IASPIS in Stockholm (2005–2007), and Director of Kunstverein München, Munich (2002–2004).

In 1998, Lind was co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2, in Luxembourg. In 2015, she curated Future Light for the first Vienna Biennale, and in 2019, she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara. In 2019, she received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Lind has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as Professor of Artistic Research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2015–2018) and is currently a lecturer at the Konstfack University of Arts’ CuratorLab.

In 2010, a selection of Lind’s writing was published by Sternberg Press. Her books include Konstringar: Vad gör samtidskonsten? (2021) and Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 (2019). Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (2021) and The New Model (2020) are two books that reflect on the long-term projects at Tensta Konsthall during Lind’s directorship.