Gertrud Sandqvist, Dorothee Albrecht, Sarat Maharaj and Stina Edblom
Sarat Maharaj is currently Professor of Visual Arts and Knowledge Systems at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University. Maharaj was born and raised in South Africa. In 1980 he moved to London and began his doctoral thesis in Art History at Goldsmiths College where he was later appointed Professor of Art History and Art Theory until 2005. The thesis was entitled The Dialectics of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Post War British Art. Maharaj has published a number of key texts on postcolonial inquiery and notions of cultural difference and translation as well as on art as knowledge production. Sarat Maharaj was the co-curator of the 29th São Paulo Biennial. in 2010 as well as for the 3rd Guangzhou Triennale in 2008 with the theme of Farewell to Postcolonialism. In 2002 he co-curated Documenta XI in Kassel with Okwui Enwezor. Maharaj is a board member of the European Biennial Manifesta.
Dorothee Albrecht is an artist and worked as assistant curator for the 29th São Paulo Biennial. Albrecht is one of the founders of UNWETTER, Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg and Dreams of Art Spaces Collected. Albrecht has a Masterdegree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In 2008, she worked as assistant curator of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial. Albrecht lives and works in Berlin.
Stina Edblom is working full time with the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2011 as co-curator and producer. During her work with the biennial she is on sebatical from her position as Curator at Göteborgs Konsthall. She has worked as assistant curator of the 29th São Paulo Biennial and in 2008 as research and assistant curator of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial with the theme of Farewell to Postcolonialism. Stina Edblom has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, London.
Gertrud Sandqvist is Professor of Art Theory and History of Ideas at the Malmö Art Academy. In 2010 she co-curated the Moderna Exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Since 1980, she has been working as an art critic for various art magazines, including Paletten (1981-84). Between 1995 and 2007 Gertrud Sandqvist was the head of department at the Malmö Art Academy. Sandqvist has written numerous texts for catalogs and anthologies on Nordic and international contemporary art.
