Artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, Maria Lind has been the director of Tensta konsthall in Stockholm since 2011. Prior to that, she was the director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, the director of Iaspis in Stockholm, the director of Kunstverein Munchen and was the co-curator of Manifesta 2 in 1998.