The art world in Sweden and around the world is shaped by political decisions, economic conditions, a transformed market and changing institutions.
In the Royal Institute of Art’s (KKH) conversation series Conversations on the Conditions of Art, a variety of actors – from artists and curators to gallery owners, opinion leaders and institutional leaders – come together to seek to capture voices and insights about the role of art in a time of change.
The talks will be moderated by Sanne Kofod Olsen, Vice-Chancellor at KKH.
Sanne Kofod Olsen and Maria Lind, director at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, will meet for a conversation on 24 March.
Warmly welcome to attend!
Date: 24/3
Time: 16.00
Place: The Royal Institute of Art, library
Maria Lind
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently the director at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. From 2020 to 2023 she was serving as the counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden, Moscow. She was the director of Stockholm’s Tensta konsthall 2011-18, the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the 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 and in 1998, co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. In 2015 she curated Future Light for the first Vienna Biennial, and in 2019 she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara.
She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo 2015-18. Currently she is a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications.
She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press, and Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 appeared in the fall of 2019. In 2021, Konstringar: Vad gör samtidskonsten? was published by Natur & Kultur. Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (2021) and The New Model (2020) are two publications reflecting long-term projects at Tensta konsthall, both published by the art center and Sternberg Press.