Seven Years, The Rematerialisation of Art from 2011 to 2017
Maria Lind

Publisher • Sternberg Press
Year • 2019
Pages • 224
Dimensions • 15 x 22.5 cm

Seven Years is a subjective chronicle of contemporary art from 2011 to 2017. During this period, the curator, writer, and educator Maria Lind regularly wrote a column for the print edition of ArtReview. The writings focused on individual art works and exhibitions, extending to conversations and debates that were developing in the art world and beyond during these seven years. Works by Haegue Yang, Hassan Khan, Uglycute, Tania Perez-Cordova, and Walid Raad, among others, are thought through, alongside exhibitions such as dOCUMENTA (13), the 2014 Sharjah Biennial, the 2015 Ural Industrial Biennial, as well as several editions of the Venice Biennale.

In Seven Years, Lind’s writings are complemented with an introduction by artists Goldin+Senneby, who discuss Lind’s materialist approach through the use of the word “hand” and how it applies to art. The writings are further complemented by the book’s design produced by long-term collaborators Metahaven. Three additional essays then filter her writing: Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy reflects on how writing can affect curatorial work, and the other way around, both for Lind and for herself. Artist Ahmet Öğüt conducts an imagined interview with Maria Lind, and Philippe Parreno weaves a summary of the years between 2010 and 2018, highlighting the notion of potentiality. The book closes with a postscript by Joanna Warsza, fellow curator, in which she compiles a glossary of the book’s key ideas and terms.

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About the Author

Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm and Berlin. From 2011 to 2018 she was the director of Tensta konsthall in Stockholm. She was previously the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?) (2016); director of the graduate programme at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Huston (2008-10)’ director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-7) and director of Kunstverein München (2002-4). In 2015 she curated the visual arts section of the Vienna Biennale, and from 2010 to 2012 her multiyear project Abstract Possible unfolded in Malmö, Zurich, Mexico City, Stockholm and Birmingham. In 1998 she cocurated Manifesta 2. She was the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Since the early 1990s Lind has taught widely, and from 2014 to 2018 she was professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo. She regularly contributes to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. She is the author of Selected Maria Lind Writing (2010).