In the context of the session 6 of the RAW Académie CURA, RAW Material Company invites you to "Working with things I don't understand", a public lecture with Maria Lind, on monday April 25th, 2019 at 6:00.

Contemporary art remains an incredible form of understanding, a meta category which can include everything else. This makes it exceptionally useful in terms of dealing with contemporary existence. By making new narratives possible, contemporary art asks the difficult questions and articulates imaginaries which we did not know before. Working curatorially with contemporary art is for me an endless enquiry into things I don’t understand, which I don’t know.

About Maria Lind

Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm and Berlin. 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 and in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo 2015-18. 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 the fall of 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press.