Traces of Cosmos: Notes on Hilma af Klint’s Paintings and Their Reception
Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator based in Stockholm and Kiruna. Since 2023, she has been the director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna. From 2020 to 2023 she served as the counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden in Moscow. She was the director of Stockholm’s Tensta konsthall (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). She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as a professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015–18), and as a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab.
Research Title Traces of Cosmos: Notes on Hilma af Klint’s Paintings and Their Reception
Category Essay
Edition The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale
Author Maria Lind
The English version of this essay can be found in e-flux journal #156, a special issue for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit.
It will also be available on this SMB website from mid-October.
This essay is originally commissioned for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Catalogue, Séance: Technology of the Spirit (Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, Mediabus, 2025), scheduled for publication on October, 2025. With the author’s consent, it is being published in advance on the Seoul Mediacity Biennale website and e-flux Journal. No part of this essay may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, Seoul Museum of Art and Mediabus, Seoul.
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