A Moscow Room with Challenging Perspectives

CBEES Advanced Seminar with Maria Lind, Counsellor of Culture at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow

Speaker: Maria Lind, Counsellor of Culture, Embassy of Sweden, Moscow
Moderator: Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies, CBEES, Södertörn University

Abstract:
Maria Lind, counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden in Moscow, will share her experience from her first year in Moscow and discuss some of the features and challenges of the cultural landscape in Russia. Among them are cultural energy of the regions, self-organisation and conspicuous exhibition architecture. She will also discuss why “space to maneouver” might be a more relevant way to deal with what can be said and done than “artistic freedom”.

About the speaker:
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently serving 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. In 2015 she curated Future Light for the first Vienna Biennial, and in 2019 she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo 2015-18. Currently she is a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press, and Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 appeared in the fall of 2019. Her most recent book is Konstringar: Vad gör samtidskonsten? (Natur & Kultur 2021) and she has edited Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (Sternberg Press 2021).

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