Nadia Schneider Willen

Nadia Schneider Willen, born 1971 in Bern, is a freelance curator based in Zurich. From 2001 to 2007 she was director and curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus was and after that conservator of modern and contemporary art at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. In 2005 she co-curated the exhibition In Times Like These at the International Biennale in Prague (National Gallery). Since 2007 she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and is currently a member of the Turner Prize jury 2011. In Geneva, she was responsible for the exhibitions Alexandre Perrier (1862-1936), Musée d'art et d'histoire, and the retrospective of Alberto Giacometti at the Musée Rath. In the Kunsthaus Glarus she curated exhibitions with international artists such Gillian Wearing, Julika Rudelius, Jim Shaw, Annelise Coste, Gary Webb, Tobias Zielony, David Thorpe, Jeanne Faust, Hammwöhner/Jakob/Vormstein, Peter Piller und Swiss artists such as Hanspeter Hofmann, Pierre Vadi, Philippe Decrauzat, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Markus Müller, Vaclav Pozarek, Rolf Graf, Ingrid Wildi, Goran Galic/Gianreto Gredig.