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> Maria Lind Named Director of the Graduate Program at Bard College’s
> Center for Curatorial Studies
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> ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Center for Curatorial Studies at
> Bard College (CCS Bard) has named distinguished curator Maria Lind
> as director of the Graduate Program for its two-year Master of Arts
> program in Curatorial Studies. One of the most accomplished
> curators of her generation, Lind will be responsible for all
> aspects of the Center’s academic program and activities, including
> the curriculum, the development of CCS faculty and student body,
> and the Center’s research programs. She will take her position at
> CCS on January 1, 2008.
> Lind takes the position formerly held by Norton Batkin, who was
> named Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College in 2006 and has
> served as director of the CCS graduate program since 1991.
> Following the completion of a major renovation and expansion with
> the addition of the Hessel Museum of Art in November 2006, the
> appointment comes at a time of continued growth at the CCS. Lind
> will work closely with CCS executive director Tom Eccles to further
> enhance the Center’s growing reputation as an innovative center for
> the exhibition of contemporary art and the study of curatorial
> practice.
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> Maria Lind is currently director of Iaspis, the International
> Artist Studio Program in Sweden, in Stockholm, where she has
> organized exhibitions with Andrea Geyer, Ibon Aranberri, Tommy
> Stöckel, and Saskia Holmkvist and cocurated a series of symposia,
> including “Citizenship: Changing Conditions,” “Why Archives?” and
> “Tendencies in Time,” six seminars on topical tendencies in the
> production, presentation, mediation, and preservation of
> contemporary art. Previously, she was director at the Munich
> Kunstverein (2002-2004), where she and the team ran an experimental
> program involving artists such as Philippe Parreno, Annika
> Eriksson, Marion von Osten, and Deimantas Narkevicius. The format
> of a retrospective, or survey, was explored in a one-year long
> retrospective with Christine Borland 2002-2003, where only one
> piece was shown at a time, and a retrospective project in the form
> of a seven-day long workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2004. She
> was a curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1997-2001), where,
> among other exhibitions, she organized Moderna Museet Projekts, a
> series of 29 artist commissions in spaces inside and outside the
> museum. She founded the independent art platform, Salon 3 (London,
> 1998-2000), with Rebecca Gordon Nesbit and Hans Ulrich Obrist; she
> was cocurator of Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg (1998); and she has
> curated or co-curated exhibitions in Slovenia, Macedonia,
> Liechtenstein, Norway, Brazil, the Netherlands, France,Germany,
> Scotland, and the United States. Her publications include numerous
> exhibition catalogue essays, including Fresh Cream (2000), Curating
> with Light Luggage (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst) and Taking
> the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in
> Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing). She was a critic at the
> daily Svenska Dagbladet (1993-97) and she co-edited the Nordic
> review Index (1995-98). Maria Lind took her master’s degree in art
> history and Russian at the University of Stockholm and was in the
> critical studies track of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.
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> The Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art
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> The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is an
> exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and
> exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. The
> Center’s graduate program is specifically designed to deepen
> students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of
> curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the
> complex social and cultural situations of present-day urban arts
> institutions. With over 9,500 square feet of gallery space and an
> extensive library and curatorial archive, CCS Bard offers students
> intellectual grounding and actual experience within a museum.
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> In November 2006, CCS Bard inaugurated the Hessel Museum of Art, a
> new 17,000-square-foot building for exhibitions curated from the
> Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 contemporary works.
> The new museum features intimate rooms encircling two large central
> galleries, and is scaled so that approximately 10 to 15 percent of
> the collection can be shown at any one time. The Hessel Museum
> extends the reach of the CCS Bard exhibition program, providing a
> place to test out the possibilities for exhibition making using the
> remarkable resources of the collection as a whole.
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