Stina Högkvist is a Swedish

art curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

and an

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. Together with Norwegian curator Marianne Zamecznik, she founded the Simon Says curatorial platform in

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, Sweden, and ran it between 2001 and 2003. She has been working at the

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in Oslo, Norway, since 2006, where she is now director of

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. In 2009, she co-curated ''Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality'' with Cameroonian curator

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at the

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. The same year, she co-curated the 5th in

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, Norway, with Slovenian curator Lina Džuverović. She curated several projects with Norwegian curator Geir Haraldseth, including the exhibition ''Luringen'' at the KUIR festival in Bogota, Colombia in 2017.

Publications

* Stina Högkvist and

, eds., ''Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality'', with texts by Stina Högkvist, Koyo Kouoh, Shaheen Merali, and , Oslo: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, 2009, 104 p., English / Norwegian,

References

Swedish art curators Swedish art historians 1972 births Living people Women art historians Swedish women historians Swedish women curators {{art-stub