Sven Christian is an independent writer, editor, and curator. He served as Curator of NIROX Sculpture Park and the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture in Johannesburg, South Africa between February 2022 and May 2025, before shifting into an adjunct role to pursue his own research interests. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Curator at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA, 2017–18); and Assistant Editor at ART AFRICA magazine (2015–17).
Sven is the editor of FORM Journal, published by the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture and the University of Johannesburg Press; and editor of recent publication projects including Walter Oltmann: In Time (2025), Richard John Forbes: Praxis (2025), and Ashraf Jamal’s Strange Cargo: Essays on Art (2022). He is also co-editor of Bruce Murray Arnott: Into the Megatext (2023); Coral Bijoux’s Dreams as R-evolution (2020); and William Kentridge’s Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work (2019). His writing has been published by Routledge, Phaidon, OnCurating, The Garage Journal, Ellipses: Journal of Creative Research, and The Thinker, amongst others. He holds an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices (University of the Witwatersrand, 2020) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Rhodes University, 2011).
