Curatorial Reading Group: Maria Lind & Martí Manen
Curatorial Reading Group: Maria Lind & Martí Manen
Aug
22
Thu
02:54 – 02:54
3–5°C
broken clouds
Please join us at PUBLICS for an in-depth conversation between pioneer curator Maria Lind and Martí Manen. Drawing on Linds extensive experience and expertise she will be talking about her curatorial practice and how she works with artists alongside curator Martí Manen between 5.30-7.30pm on August 22nd, refreshments will be served afterwards.
Maria Lind
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently the director 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.
Martí Manen
Martí Manen (Barcelona, 1976) has worked intensively with independent and institutional curatorial practice. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo de Historia Natural (Mexico City), Aara (Bangkok), Tabakalera (San Sebastian) Konsthall C (Stockholm), CA2M (Madrid), and Fabra i Coats (Barcelona). Manen was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and curated Momentum10 (Biennial in Moss, Norway, 2019). In the 1990s, he curated five years of exhibitions in his room located in a student flat in Barcelona. Since 2018 Marti Manen is Director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Manen is also the director of CuratorLab, the curatorial program at Konstfack in Stockholm. He has published books including “Salir de la exposición” (“Leaving the Exhibition”) (Consonni), “Contarlo todo sin saber cómo” (“Telling everything not knowing how”) (CA2M), and “When Lines Are Time” (Miró Foundation Barcelona).
For more information please email annabelle.antas@publics.fi or valentina@publics.fi
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Thu 22 Aug 2024 Closed today
3–5°C
broken clouds
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