Emily Karaka in conversation with Chelsea Winstanley

Hear leading international curator and our Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau international guest Maria Lind introduce their curatorial work through the lens of the Artspace Aotearoa 2026 question “which history?”. 

Lind will focus on the various ways in which time is an important factor in her curatorial and institutional work. She will discuss the retrospective exhibition with Christine Borland at Kunstverein Munich, which extended across two years and took place in different locations depending on the nature of the work in question. She will also focus on the multi-year inquiry on art, solidarity movements and the quest for social justice at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm and The Benevolent Food, dealing with art, food and the environment, which has just been kicked off at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna.

This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa and association with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Te Ahurei Toi o Tamaki Auckland Arts Festival.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.This event will be held in the Kit, which can be accessed by the main gallery entrance or alternatively by our car park on 8 East St for assisted access.This event will be seated and microphones will be used.Light refreshments will be available.

BIOGRAPHY

Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator from Stockholm who is currently the director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. She was 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), director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005–2007), and director of Kunstverein München (2002–2004). In 1998 she was co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. She has taught and published widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015–2018) and is currently a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab.