ANDERS KREUGER
Born on March 9, 1965 in Risinge, Sweden
Education:
1984-1990 Stockholm University: M.A. in Art History, Lithuanian and Social
Sciences. Additional studies in Russian, Finnish and Comparative Indo-European
Linguistics
Work:
1986-1991 Assistant tutor of Lithuanian at the Dpt. of Slavic and Baltic languages,
Stockholm University;
1989-1991 Freelance work for the Swedish Government as translator and interpreter
from Lithuanian into Swedish and English;
l990-1991 Research missions for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
the Baltic states;
1991 Accepted for the in-house training programme at the Swedish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs;
1991-1995 Founding director of the Nordic Information Office in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Main activities: exchanges between Lithuania and all Nordic countries in the
fields of culture and education. Collaboration with artists and art institutions
in Lithuania and with institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Helsinki, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and the Nordic
Arts Centre; support for publishing; organising informational and strategic
seminars to support the transition process in Lithuania;
1995-1997 Director of the Nordic Arts Centre in Helsinki. Main activities:
overall responsibility for the institution's programming and structure, and
eventually its re-structuring;
1997-1999 Founding director of the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA)
in Helsinki.
Main activities: setting up the new institution; supervising the exhibition
programme; managing the artists' residency programme (15 studios in all Nordic
and Baltic countries); devising a publishing and on-line information programme;
being the legal publisher of the art journal SIKSI and orchestrating its merger
with the Stockholm-based INDEX into the new journal NU: The Nordic Art Review;
Organising international seminars on contemporary art and curating:
Stopping the Process? in Henningsvaer, Norway, September 1997. (Participants
included Stephen Bann, Zygmunt Bauman, Iwona Blazwick, Dan Cameron, Lynne
Cooke, Maia Damianovic, David Elliott, Paulo Herkenhoff, Maria Lind, Ólafur
Eliasson, Irit Rogoff, Andrei Zorin . . .);
Changing the System? at Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April
1999. (Participants included Ute Meta Bauer, Pierre Bismuth, Janet Cardiff,
Paolo Colombo, Lynne Cooke, Catherine David, Jimmy Durham, Michael Elmgreen
& Ingar Dragset, Alicia Framis, Renee Green, Carl Michael von Hausswolff,
Rita McBride, Friedrich Meschede . . .);
Artists Talk, seminar series in various Scandinavian venues, December 1998
- March 1999. Participants included Miriam Bäckström, Anna Gaskell,
Ivar Brynjólfsson, Luisa Lambri, Bjarne Melgaard, Aernout Mik, Ólafur
Eliasson;
1999- Freelance exhibition curator and art writer. Projects include:
Articulation, exhibition (with catalogue) at the O.K Centre for Contemporary
Art in Linz, Austria, April-July, 2000. (Participating artists: Fadi Dorninger,
Evaldas Jansas, Karl Katzinger, Arturas Raila, S&P Stanikas);
Remedy for Melancholy, exhibition (with catalogue) at Edsvik Art in Sollentuna
and the Baltic Art Centre in Visby, Sweden, February-April, 2001. (Participating
artists: Vanessa Baird & Mette Hellenes, Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
(1875-1911), Richard Cuerden, Pal Gerber, Ion Grigorescu, Haraldur Jónsson,
Linas Jablonskis, Jonas Mekas, Annika Ström, Marianna Uutinen, Francesco
Vezzoli, Barbara Visser);
Parts of the World, international seminar at the Malmö Art Academy and
Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, May 2001. Participants:
Branislav Dimitrijevic, Róza El-Hassan, Boris Groys, Ketevan Kintsurashvili,
Miroslav Kulchitsky, Miglena Nikolchina, Liutauras Psibilskis, Arturas Raila,
Irina Sandomirskaya, Elena & Viktor Vorobyev;
Self-Esteem, exhibition (with catalogue) at the Contemporary Art Centre in
Vilnius, Lithuania, September-November 2001. Over 40 participating artists,
most of whom Lithuanian, including: Academic Training Group, Haraldur Jónsson,
Luisa Lambri, Darius Miksys, Liutauras Psibilskis, Arturas Raila, Egle Rakauskaite,
Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745-1807), Antanas Sutkus, Darius Ziura . . .
Other Professional
Experience (a selection):
1990-1991 Lecturing at Uppsala University, Sweden;
1995-1998 Member of the Executive Committee of Res Artis, the international
organisation of artists' residency programmes;
1997-1999 Member of the task force Renewal of Cultural Institutions created
by Sweden's Future Culture Foundation;
2000- Member of the Executive Board for the Baltic Art Centre at Visby, Sweden;
Member of the Culture Sub-board of the Lithuanian Soros Foundation, Vilnius;
Lecturing at Malmö Art Academy and Södertörn University College,
Sweden;
2001- Consultant for the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Publications
(a selection):
1997:
Nordica, folder for exhibition organised by NIFCA in public spaces in Helsinki.
Participating artists: BAR, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kirsi Mikkola, S&P
Stanikas, Anne Lise Stenseth, Superflex, Jörgen Svensson, Thorvaldur
Thorsteinsson;
1998:
The Top of Europe, essay in the catalogue for the exhibition Nuit Blanche
(curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Laurence Bossé) at the Musée
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;
Konst och Nytta ("The Use of Art"), a cultural policy paper commissioned
by the Future Culture Foundation, Sweden (published on: www.framtidenskultur.se);
1999:
Pictures for the Blue Room, introduction to catalogue for exhibition at the
Vigeland Museum, Oslo (curator: Mark Kremer). Participating artists: Henrik
B. Andersen, Vanessa Baird, A.K. Dolven, Alicia Framis, Aernout Mik, Matt
Mullican, Pekka Niskanen, Sophie Tottie;
Róza El-Hassan, essay about the Hungarian artist in the catalogue for
the exhibition La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
(curator: Lóránd Hegyi);
Elina Brotherus and Ebru Özsecen, essays about the Finnish and Turkish
artists in the catalogue for The Passion and the Wave. The 6th Istanbul Biennial;
Talking to Myself, essay for the book project Wax et Jardins. Loneliness in
the City by the Spanish artist Alicia Framis, Amsterdam;
Instead of Afterthoughts, essay in the book Changing the System?
Artists Talk About Their Practice, published by NIFCA, Helsinki; Amerikanskt
avantgarde ("American Avantgarde"), review of Fabian Marcaccio's
and Gregg Lynn's exhibition at the Vienna Secession in the journal Hjärnstorm,
Stockholm;
Lithuanian Art 1989-1999, review in NU: The Nordic Art Review, Stockholm;
2000:
Articulation, catalogue (in German and English) for exhibition at the O.K
Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria;
Luisa Lambri's Images of Vilnius, essay in the catalogue for Manifesta 3.
The European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia (curators:
Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajová, Kathrin Rhomberg);
The Painted Image, essay in the catalogue for Painterly. The 11th Vilnius
painting Triennial at the CAC Vilnius (curator: Evaldas Stankevicius);
Svetimo skausmo nebuna? ("Can You Feel the Pain of the Other?"),
review of the Romanian exhibition Archive of Pain at the CAC Vilnius, in the
journal 7 meno dienos, Vilnius;
Nekaltybe ir patirtis ("Innocence and Experience") essay in the
catalogue for the exhibition Innocent Life at the CAC Vilnius (curators: Lolita
Jablonskiene and Erika Grigoraviciene);
Varats poesi ("The Poetry of Being"), essay about the Austrian artist
Karl Katzinger in the journal Hjärnstorm, Stockholm;
2001:
Flyg bara med oss! Om flygbolagsestetik ("Fly Only With Us! About Airline
Aesthetics"), essay in the journal Ojeblikket, Copenhagen;
Remedy for Melancholy, catalogue (in Swedish and English) for exhibition at
Edsvik Art in Sollentuna and the Baltic Art Centre at Visby, Sweden;
Reflections on a Laurel Grove, essay about the Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias
in the book Artscape Nordland, Oslo (editor: Maaretta Jaukkuri);
Formulating, Listening, Reading. interview essay in the catalogue for the
exhibition Nina Roos: Through Images at Kiasma, Helsinki (curator: Patrik
Nyberg);
Liquid, essay about the Swedish artist Jan Hietala for his exhibition at Zinc
Gallery, Stockholm;
Ion Grigorescu's Films, essay about the Romanian artist published in the 2000/2001
Yearbook of the Malmö Art Academy;
Self-esteem, booklet (in Lithuanian and English) for exhibition at the CAC
Vilnius;
"The unconscious can be compared to an aboriginal population in the mind",
text for a film by the Lithuanian artist Arturas Raila, delivered at the Split
Realities seminar in Vienna. To be published by Springerin, Vienna;
Subtle Structure Research, essay about the Lithuanian artist Darius Miksys
to be published in the Journal of Visual Culture, London