Guest Curator Sommerakademie 2012
16 - 26 August 2012

Marta Kuzma is a curator, writer, lecturer, and, since 2005, director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). She is also part of the curatorial team for documenta (13) which is scheduled to open in June 2012 in Kassel. 

Recently curated exhibitions at OCA include “Big Sign—Little Building” and “Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?”—a look at the juncture of the political and erotic in the countercultural movements of the 1960s. She co-curated Manifesta 5 in San Sebastián, Spain, and numerous other exhibition projects reflecting wider research initiatives.

Kuzma is a visiting professor at the University IUAV in Venice and a member of the editorial board of the London-based contemporary arts journal Afterall. She is the founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, and has served as the director of the WPA in Washington, D.C. in addition to heading the International Exhibitions Program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College, New York, and postgraduate of art theory and aesthetics from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy/Middlesex University in London.

Links:
OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Documenta 13