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
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
.
Together with Norwegian curator Marianne Zamecznik, she founded the Simon Says curatorial platform in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
, Sweden, and ran it between 2001 and 2003.
She has been working at the
National Museum
A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater numb ...
in Oslo, Norway, since 2006, where she is now director of
collections
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* Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department
* Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service
* Collection agency, agency to collect cash
* Collection ...
.
In 2009, she co-curated ''Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality'' with Cameroonian curator
Koyo Kouoh
Koyo Kouoh (born 1967) is Cameroonian-born curator who has been serving as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town since 2019. In 2015, the ''New York Times'' called her "one of Africa’ ...
at the
Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art
The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art ( no, Museet for samtidskunst) is a museum in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003, it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
History
The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary A ...
.
The same year, she co-curated the 5th in
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...
, 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
Koyo Kouoh
Koyo Kouoh (born 1967) is Cameroonian-born curator who has been serving as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town since 2019. In 2015, the ''New York Times'' called her "one of Africa’ ...
, 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
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