Maria Lind will address the question of “How far do we get with moments of magic?” through presenting and discussing three projects with which she has been involved:
The TV Trampoline: From Children’s Television to Contemporary Art and Literature in Moscow, Kalmar, Umeå, Norrtälje and Kiruna,
The Silent University by artist Ahmet Ögut at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm and
The Benevolent Food in Kiruna.
Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator from Stockholm. She is currently the director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. From 2020 to 2023, she served 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.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture.