Art Institutions: Seminar Participant CV´s

Art Institutions: The ethics and Aesthetics of Working with Contemporary Art

KIASMA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Mannerheiminaukio 2, Helsinki, Finland

Seminar: 03/12 - 04/12/2003




Seminar Participant CV`s


NICOLAS BOURRIAUD is an art critic and curator. Currently he is the co-director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He was the founder and director of the art magazine Documents (1992-2000).
Most recently he curated “Touch” at San Francisco Art Institute, 2002 and “GNS” at Palais de Tokyo, 2003. Among his publications are “Esthetique Relationnelle / Relational Aesthetics”, Presses du reel, 1998, 2002 and “Postproduction”, Lukas & Sternberg, 2001.


LENE CRONE JENSEN is chief-curator and currently acting director of Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö. Previously she worked independently as a curator and at Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen. She is on the advisory board of Overgaden, Copenhagen and a member of the board of UKK the young art workers¹ association in Denmark.


CATHERINE DAVID is head curator of the National Museums of France. She worked previously as curator at the MNAM Centre George Pompidou, and with the National Gallery Jeu de Paum in Paris. Curator of many exhibitions she has in particular directed Documenta X, in Kassel in 1997. She has also developed, in collaboration with several international institutions, an interdisciplinary long term cultural project “Contemporary Arab Representations”. She is currently director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. She has published many catalogues and articles, amongst which one finds the book of Documenta X, or the '”Tamáss” publication which accompanies the “Contemporary Arab Representations” project.


ANTHONY DAVIES is a London based writer and independent researcher. He has written extensively on art and commerce and published articles in numerous periodicals including Art Monthly, Mute, Texte zur Kunst, Documents, Infopool and Metropolis M.


JONAS EKEBERG, born in Norway, is an artist, critic and curator. He was chief curator of Momentum Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art 2000 and founding director of Oslo Kunsthall (2000-2001). Currently he is employed as curator/head of communications at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.


MATIAS FALDBAKKEN is an artist and writer based in Oslo, Norway. Among his recent exhibitions are: 2003 The Photo Gallery, Oslo, Norway; 27. Canal, New York; Kunstverein München, München; CCA)B - Centre for Contemporary Arts Belgrade; 2002 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; Germinations 13, Cork, Ireland; 2001 The UKS-biennial, Oslo, Norway; NIFCA gallery, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; 1998 MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles. His most recent publications include: 2003 “Edward Norton¹s WaspVille”, J. W. Cappelen Publishing House, Oslo; 2002 ”Macht und Rebel”, J. W. Cappelen Publishing House, Oslo and 2001 “The Cocka Hola Company”, J. W. Cappelen Publishing House, Oslo.


ROBERT FLECK is an art critic, historian and exhibition curator. Among the exhibitions he curated are Manifesta 2 (with Maria Lind and Barbara Vanderlinden), Luxembourg 1998 and „Das Jahrhundert der künstlerischen Freiheit - 100 Jahre Secession“, Wien 1998. He was the director of the School of Visual Arts in Nantes, France from 2000 until 2003 and has recently been appointed as director of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. His latest publication is „Die Geschichte der Mühl-Kommune, Cologne“: Walther König 2003.


MÁRIA HLAVAJOVA is a curator based in Amsterdam and the artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She has been working at the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Bratislava as Programme Coordinator, Deputy Director, and Director from 1992 until 1999. In 1997 - 2000 she has been a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY, USA. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions and contemporary art projects, including "Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts" (Utrecht, 2003), "Borderline Syndrome: Energies of Defence - Manifesta 3", European Biennial of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana, 2000), "There is Nothing Like a Bad Coincidence" (Bratislava, 1998), and "Interior vs. Exterior or On the Border of Possible Worlds" (Bratislava, 1996).


JENS HOFFMANN is a curator and writer based in Berlin. He is the curator of “Institution2”.


MARY JANE JACOB is an independent curator whose exhibition projects test the boundaries of public space and relationship of contemporary art to audiences. Currently, she is a curator for the Spoleto Festival USA¹s "Evoking History" program in Charleston and co-organizer of "Awake: Art and Buddhism, and The Dimensions of Consciousness," a consortium program based in the Bay Area. In 2005, she will chair the 55th International Design Conference in Aspen. Contributing also to the expanded discourse around public art since the early 1990s, she is on the adjunct faculty of the Bard Graduate Center for Curatorial Studies, New York and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is initiating a program in Public Practice.


HENRIK PLENGE JAKOBSEN is an artist who was born in 1967 in Copenhagen where he also lives and works. Jakobsen's work has been shown internationally in several different solo and group presentations. His most recent solo exhibitions include: "Circus Portikus", Portikus, Frankfurt (2003) and "Dialectic Materialism", Galleria Maze, Turin (2003). In 2003 he also participated in the following group exhibitions: "Home Sweet Home" at Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus; "Hardcore" at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; "Adorno" at Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt, among others.


JAKOB JAKOBSEN, born in Copenhagen in 1965, lives and works at the Copenhagen Free University (www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk) and in the Infopool network in London (infopool.org.uk)


MAARETTA JAUKKURI is the chief curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. Previously she worked as head of exhibitions at the Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki. She has curated "Artscape Nordland" in Norway 1992-1998 and been involved in a number other independent projects. She has written extensively on contemporary art and artists.


KAIJA KAITAVUORI is an art historian, writer and museum educator working at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki as the head of education, responsible for the educational program and audience work in the museum.


TELLERVO KALLEINEN is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She received her MFA in 2003 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Among her latest projects/exhibitions/events are: curator of Amorph!03 - The first summit of Micronations, Helsinki; "The Last Heroes", Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn; "Re:Public", Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga; International Performance Festival Odense, Denmark and Santiago Video Biennal, Chile, all in 2003.


KESTUTIS KUIZINAS was born in 1968 in Kaunas, Lithuania. 1986-1991 she studied Art History and Theory at The Vilnius Academy of Art. Since 1992 she has been working as Director of Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. She has been a member of A.I.C.A. (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art) since 1994. She has curated a number of exhibitions in Lithuania and other countries including “Cool Places”, The 7th Young Baltic Art Triennial, “Lithuanian Art 1989-1999” (both held at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius) and “Works by Deimantas Narkevicius” - The Lithuanian Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial. She lives and works in Vilnius.


MARYSIA LEWANDOWSKA has been collaborating with Neil Cummings since 1995 (www.chanceprojects.com). As artists they have been interested in thinking about and working alongside many of the institutions that choreograph the exchange of values between art and its public. Research has played a central part in all their recent projects which include a book “The Value of Things”, Birkhauser, August 2000; “Give & Take” at the V & A Museum and Capital inaugurating Contemporary Interventions series at Tate Modern 2001 and “Free Trade” at Manchester Art Gallery. Lewandowska is an Art Professor at Konstfack in Stockholm.


VANESSA JOAN MÜLLER, born 1968 in Hamburg, studied Art History and Film Theory in Bochum, and lives in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. She works as an art critic and as a curator for the Frankfurter Kunstverein.


JOANNA MYTKOWSKA, born in 1970, and ANDRZEJ PRZYWARA, born in 1968 are the founder members of Foksal Gallery Foundation, founded in Warsaw in 1997. They met at the Foksal Gallery where Andrzej Przywara had been working since 1988. Joanna Mytkowska started to work on archives at the gallery in 1992. Between 1996 and 2001 they were in charge of programming most of the exhibitions at the gallery. Since the end of 2001 Mytkowska and Przywara, together with Adam Szymczyk (Director of Kunsthalle Basel) with whom they worked together with until July 2003, started managing the Foksal Gallery Foundation in the new space. Foksal Gallery Foundation has organized in 2003, among others, Artur Zmijewski´s "Singing Lesson", Miroslaw Balka´s "Lebensraum", "Nova Popularna Bar" by Paulina Olowska and Lucy McKenzie and "Hidden in a Daylight", modern art exhibition with 17 artists. Apart from working in the name of the Foksal Gallery Foundation Mytkowska and Przywara also animate shows in other institutions and work as art critics.


NINA MÖNTMANN, PhD in art history, curator and critic, based in Helsinki and Hamburg. She researched and curated recently on topics of social space, mapping, and strategies of creating autonomous spaces within globalized structures. Among the exhibitions she curated are "minimalisms" at Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, 1998; "Sound aka Space", as part of "Aussendienst" Hamburger Kunstverein in 2000 and "Eigene Systeme/Autonomous Systems" at Kunstverein Harburg in 2002. From 2002-2003 she has been guest professor for media theory at HFK Bremen and she is currently teaching on curatorial practice at the University of Hamburg. She has written a number of catalogue essays on contemporary art and is frequently contributing to Artforum. Her book "Kunst als sozialer Raum" has been published in 2002 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.


BORIS ONDREICKA is an artist, poet, singer and communication solutioner based in Bratislava. He has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions, which include “Junge Szene”, Secession, Vienna; “Manifesta 2”, CPCA, Luxembourg; “Egon Grabstein's Demonstraat 00”, Attachment+, Kunsthalle Loppem; “Generation Z”, PS1, NY and “Midnight Walkers - City Sleepers”, W139, Amsterdam.


NOVEMBER PAYNTER started working as a curator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in September 2002, following the completion of a Masters in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London. Since arriving at Platform she has curated three exhibitions with a number of young international artists working in a variety of media: “Coming Up”, “Zenith” and “Making Space”. In June 2003 she was awarded the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi Per L¹arte Enter Prize and her winning exhibition proposal “Another Zero” will be realised at the Galleria d¹Arte Moderna ve Contemporanea in Bergamo, Italy in February 2004. She recently initiated the Istanbul based magazine bkz. with Andrew Foxall. She is the Istanbul correspondent for Contemporary Magazine and has also written for Time Out, Istanbul, Artreview and Parachute.


JEROME SANS is a curator and writer based in Paris. Currently he is the co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and has, since 1996, been Adjunct curator at the Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee (Wisconsin) USA.


NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN is the Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2003 he curated "Adorno", "deutschemalereizweitausenddrei" and "Nation" for the Frankfurter Kunstverein and is currently preparing on a monographic exhibition of the work artist Cerith Wyn Evans (2004). He was the artistic director for the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 1995 to 1998 and is a curator for NIFCA since 2003.


SIMON SHEIKH is a critic and curator. He is co-editor of øjeblikket, a Scandinavian magazine of visual cultures. His writings have appeared in journals such as Art +Text, Atlantica, Index, Nu, Printed Project, Purple and Spex. He worked as director of Overgaden Art Space, Copenhagen during 1999-2001. He has recently published “We are All Normal - and we want our freedom”, a collection of contemporary nordic artists´ writings co-edited with Katya Sander, Black Dog Publishing, 2001, and is the editor “In the Place of the Public Sphere?” OE+b_books (forthcoming) and Knut Åsdam (monograph), Fine Arts Unternehmen, 2003. He is an assistant professor of Art Theory and a coordinator of the Critical Studies program, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. He lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.


MATS STJERNSTEDT is a curator and writer residing in Stockholm. He has been working as a freelance curator since 1992 with a wide range of activities mostly in Malmö and Stockholm. He has also written art critic during 1997 - 2001 with texts published in Art Forum, Flash Art, art & text, Paletten and Nu the Nordic Art Review. He is director for Index since 2001.