The IMA is pleased to present a talk by curator and critic Maria Lind. This is the eighth in a series of talks this year titled What Can Art Institutions Do? Lind is based in Stockholm, where she is Director of Tensta Konsthall. She is also Artistic Director of the 2016 Gwangju Biennale. In recent years, she has held various roles, including Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Director of Iaspis, Stockholm; and Director of Kunstverein München. Prior to that, she was Curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm from 1997 to 2001, and Co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s nomadic biennial of contemporary art. In 1998, Lind was the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. A compendium of her essays, Selected Maria Lind Writing, was published by Sternberg Press in 2010