Karen Archey

IASPIS Expert visit, Stockholm and Malmö 25 – 28 January 2024

Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and a doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam. At the Stedelijk, Archey cares for the contemporary art and time-based media collections, and organizes the museum’s performance program and contemporary permanent collection display. She has curated major solo exhibitions of artists Hito Steyerl, Rineke Dijkstra, and Metahaven, and is currently preparing a large-scale overview of the work of Marina Abramović.

Photo: Portrait Karen Archey by Boudewijn Bollmann

Formerly based in Berlin and New York, Archey has worked as an independent curator, editor, and art critic, and was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing in 2015. Her book After Institutions (2022, Floating Opera Press) examines museums as a troubled, rapidly evolving public space and renews discussions around Institutional Critique. A frequent public speaker, she has recently given lectures at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Swiss Institute, Moderna Museet, MUDAM, and MMCA Seoul, among other institutions.

In collaboration with skēnē.

Public presentation by Karen Archey

Presentation by Karen Archey, curator at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, revolving around her research project “After Institutions”

Date: Saturday 27 January 2024
Time: 4 pm
Place: skēnē
Address: Drottninggatan 6C, Malmö

The talk is organised with support from Malmö stads culture stipend Kulturkraft and in collaboration with skēnē.