Maria Lind
Installation image from Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta Konsthall.
ICI launches the 2012 Curator’s Perspective series with a lecture by Maria Lind at the CUNY Graduate Center. Maria Lind will speak on the Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, where she has been Director since January 2011.
This event is free of charge and open to the public, though seating is limited. To RSVP, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The Curator’s Perspective: Maria Lind has been made possible, in part, by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; by in-kind support from the CUNY Graduate Center; and by generous contributions from the ICI Board of Trustees, ICI Benefactors Barbara and John Robinson, and ICI Partners and Patrons.
The Graduate Center
The James Gallery
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
7:00-8:30pm
Presenter
Maria Lind is Director of the Tensta Konsthall and an independent curator and writer interested in exploring the formats and methodologies connected with the contemporary art institution. She was the director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College from 2008–10. Before that, she was director of lASPIS in Stockholm (2005–07) and Director of the Munich Kunstverein (2002–04). Previous to that she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (from 1997–2001) and in 1998 was co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s nomadic biennial of contemporary art. Lind was the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. A compendium of her essays to date, Selected Maria Lind Writing, was published by Sternberg Press in 2010.