In this keynote lecture, Swedish curator Maria Lind will discuss her work at Stockholm's Tensta konsthall, the Gwangju Biennial, and Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna. She'll outline her context-sensitive curatorial methodology, which encompasses six key ideas: self-institutionalisation, displacement, art-centricity, embeddedness, pervasive eclecticism, and the proximity principle. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between Maria Lind and Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice at Monash University. Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently the director Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. From 2020–23 she was serving as the counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden, Moscow. She was the director of Stockholm’s Tenstakonsthall (2011–18), the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008–10) and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005–07). From 2002–04 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 professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015–18). Currently she is a lecturer at Konstfack’s Curator Lab. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. Tara McDowell is Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice at Monash University, a program she founded in 2014. Her research interests include contemporary curating, exhibition histories, art institutions, feminist and queer spaces of sociability and production, and the support structures of art, including home, school, exhibition, labour, and friendship. Prior to her arrival at Monash, McDowell held curatorial appointments at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, where she mounted many solo and group exhibitions. McDowell holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. She publishes and lectures widely, and was the founding Senior Editor of The Exhibitionist, a journal on curatorial practice. Her recent books include The Artist As (Sternberg Press, 2018) and The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess (The MIT Press, 2019), which was awarded the 2018 CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award. Her current book project, The Mother Artist, is a study of contemporary art and mothering; it was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Henry Moore Foundation Research Grant. McDowell is a founding member of Climate Aware Creative Practices, an Australia-wide alliance of creative arts educators, researchers, and practitioners working together to deepen engagement with the challenges posed by climate change. She is currently leading the Australia Research Council project Care and Repair: Rethinking Contemporary Curation for Conditions of Crisis. Presented by MUMA and Monash Fine Art Image: Drawing of Maria Lind by Bernd Krauss