MARIA LIND (SE), Chair of jury

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 (2011-2018), 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 A 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 Rematerialisation of 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).

JENNIE KLEIN (US)

Jennie Klein is a professor at Ohio University in the School of Art + Design. Her research interests include contemporary art, performance/ live art, feminist and gender theory and art history, and maternal studies.

Klein has published in a number of journals and art magazines, including New Art Examiner, Art Papers, Afterimage, Genders, n.paradoxa, Contemporary Theatre Review, and PAJ. She is the editor of Responding to Site: The Performance Art of Marilyn Arsem (co-edited with Natalie Loveless), Assuming the Ecosexual Position by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, Histories and Practices of Live Art (co-edited with Deirdre Heddon), and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (co-edited with Myrel Chernick).

Klein is currently involved with The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, co-edited with Natalie Loveless, a book that seeks to includes voices, institutions, and events around live art that are outside of Western Europe and North America.

PILVI PORKOLA (FI)

Dr Pilvi Porkola is a performance artist, researcher, writer and pedagogue.

She was a founder and a editor-in-chief of Esitys magazine, a publication focusing on performance arts (2007-2017). She is also the editor of Performance Artist’s Workbook. On teaching and learning performance art - essays and exercises (University of the Arts Helsinki, 2017).

Currently she is working as Senior Researcher in Academy of Finland funded project “Political Imagination and Alternative Futures” (2020-2024) at University of Turku.