Since January 2008, Maria Lind is the director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA. From 2005 to 2007 she was the Director of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm. Previously, since 2002, Lind was the Director of Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, where she, together with a curatorial team consisting at different times of Sören Grammel, Katharina Schlieben, Tessa Praun, Ana Paula Cohen and Judith Schwarzbart, ran a programme which involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. The format of a retrospective or survey exhibition was explored in a one-year long retrospective with Christine Borland in 2002-03, only ever showing one piece at a time, and a retrospective project in the form of a seven-day-long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija. The group project 'Totally Motivated: A Socio-cultural Manoeuvre' was a collaboration between five curators and ten artists looking at the relationship between 'amateur' and 'professional' art and culture. From 1997 to 2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project space, within or beyond the museum. There she also curated 'What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design', filtered by Liam Gillick. Lind was one of ten contributing curators to Phaidon's Fresh Cream book, and she has contributed widely to magazines including Index (where she was on the editorial board) and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is the co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015 and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art. She has been teaching and lecturing at different art schools since the early 1990s, including at the University Colleges of Fine Art in Umeå and Stockholm, the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College in London, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, USA the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver, Canada and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
