Anders Kreuger

Anders Kreuger, born in Sweden in 1965, is curator at M HKA, the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), and one of the editors of the art journal Afterall. Previously he was director of the Malmö Art Academy and exhibitions curator at Lunds konsthall, both in Sweden, as well as a member of the programme team of the European Kunsthalle in Cologne. In 1997–1999 he was founding director of NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, in Helsinki.

Events organised by Kreuger at M HKA include a retrospective of Jimmie Durham’s work (2012) and a major presentation of the M HKA collection, with the book The Collection as a Character (2013). At Lunds konsthall he organised more than 20 exhibitions, with artists such as Michel Auder, Miriam Bäckström, Olga Chernysheva, Omer Fast, João Penalva and Raqs Media Collective. He has also worked extensively as an independent curator in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, India and the US.

Kreuger has published extensively in journals and catalogues across the world, edited numerous books and taught at several art academies in Scandinavia (2001–2011), and at the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London (2003–2004).

Publications
“The actions of bodies: Approaching Lili Dujourie”, in: Afterall, no.34, autumn/winter 2013, pp 108–125.

“’O Outside, show me your innermost!’: Simryn Gill’s My Own Private Angkor”, in: Afterall, no.33, summer 2013, pp 88–97.

“Beyond Nonsense: What Slavs and Tatars Make”, in: Afterall, no.31, autumn/winter 2012, pp 106–115.

“Thinking about Thinking Together”, in: Paul De Bruyne & Pascal Gielen (eds.), Teaching Art in a Neoliberal Realm: Realism versus Cynicism, Valiz, Amsterdam 2011.

„What Things Mean“, in: Yilmaz Dziewior (ed.), Haegue Yang: Arrivals, exh. cat. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (AT) 2011; an excerpt will be republished in: Antony Hudek (ed.), Documents of Contemporary Art: The Object, Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, London and Cambridge Mass. 2013.