the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Feb
1
Maria Lind
Notes of the Curatorial
6:30 pm | Rose Auditorium
Is there something that we could call “the curatorial”? Something that manifests itself in the activities of a curator, whether employed or independent, whether trained as an artist or as an art historian? It is clear that curating is much more than exhibition making. Exhibitions are just one aspect of curatorial potential. Curating involves commissioning new work and working beyond the walls of an institution, as well as what would traditionally be called programming and education. But can we speak of the “curatorial,” beyond “curating in the expanded field?” As a multi-dimensional function that includes critique, editing, education and fundraising?
About Maria Lind
Maria Lind was born in Stockholm in 1966. Since January 2008 director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. 2005-2007 director of Iaspis in Stockholm. 2002-2004 she was the director of Kunstverein München where she together with a curatorial team ran a programme which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project-space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. Among the artists were Koo Jeong-a, Simon Starling, Jason Dodge, Esra Ersen. There she also curated What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, filtered by Liam Gillick. She has contributed widely to magazines and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is the co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015 (Iaspis and eipcp) and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press). She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.