Maria Lind

Maria Lind (1966) was born in Stockholm. In 1998 she was co-curator of Manifesta 2. 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project-space and within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. Among the artists were Koo Jeong-a, Simon Starling, Jason Dodge and Esra Ersen. There she also curated What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, filtered by Liam Gillick. 2002-2004 she was director of the Munich Kunstverein, where together with a curatorial team she ran a programme which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. 2005-2007 she was director of Iaspis in Stockholm. Since January 2008 Maria Lind has directed the graduate programme at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, N.Y. She has contributed widely to magazines and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is 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 was the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.