Announcing our CNZ Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curator: Maria Lind

We are pleased to announce Maria Lind as one of our Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curators for 2026.

Maria will arrive at the start of March spending time in Tāmaki Makaurau hosted at Artspace Aotearoa and travel to Taranaki, hosted by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Join Maria for their public Question time lecture titled, Time is the new space at Artspace Aotearoa on Saturday 7 March, details on the event page or express your interest in her In focus: A Curatorial Intensive.

Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator from Stockholm who is currently the director of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna. She was 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 (2008–2010), director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005–2007), and director of Kunstverein München (2002–2004). In 1998 she was co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. She has taught and published widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015–2018) and is currently a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab.

Artspace Aotearoa is pleased to deliver the Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau programme for the visual arts. This essential programme aims to establish an ongoing stake in our artists amongst leading international voices, to generate enduring conversation, and enable concrete engagements and collaborations for our artists and arts organisations in the future.

This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa and association with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Te Ahurei Toi o Tamaki Auckland Arts Festival.