About

Olivia Berkowicz is a curator, writer and organiser. Her practice explores the intersection of critical visuality studies and contemporary art theory, manifesting itself in work on memory, translocality and alternative solidarities. Since 2022, she works as curator of exhibitions at the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Göteborg, Sweden. Her previous studies include an MA in Curatorial Studies and a BA in History of Art, at Stockholm University and Goldsmiths College, University of London respectively.

In 2020-2021 Berkowicz was awarded a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Together with Marianna Feher, she is the organiser and curator of Tentative Transmits, a discursive sound platform supported by the artistic research funding of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

In recent years, she has worked as curator and producer in Sweden at Grafikens Hus, Södertälje (2019-2020); The Living History Forum, Stockholm (2018); Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping (2018-2019); The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2017). She was also a founding member of the interdisciplinary collective resina in 2017-2021, which organised Ferrara Residency for emerging artists in Ferrara, Italy.

Education

2019-2021Decolonizing Architecture: Experimental Sites of Knowledge Production, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden2014–2016
Curating Art: International Master’s Program, including Management and Law, Stockholm University, Sweden2015–2016
Philosophy in the Context of Art, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden2010–2013
BA History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Residencies

2024
Residency at Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania2021
Residency with Tentative Transmits at Cité international des arts, Paris, France
2021
Web residency “Solidarity is a Verb”, with the Castle of Crossed Destinies, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany2020-2021
Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany2019
Now that’s what I call an artist’s residency! PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway

Professional Work

2022-present
Curator of Exhibitions, the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Göteborg, Sweden2023
Listening Session with Tentative Transmits and Meira Ahmemulic, Mint konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden2021
Listening Session with Tentative Transmits and Škart collective, part of Magical Cohabitations, online event, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2020
Tentative Transmits in conversation with Sanja Horvatinčić & Larisa Crunțeanu, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania
2019-2020Project manager of An(Other) Vernacular with Afaina de Jong at Grafikens Hus, Södertälje, Sweden
2017–2019Curator with Joanna Nordin of Mending a Broken World – Lenke Rothman, Alina Chaiderov, Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping, Sweden2017-2019
Organiser and curator with resina collective of Ferrara Residency, Ferrara, Italy
2017Curator and producer of Clusterfuck, BFA Degree Show, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden

Internships

2015
Production Assistant Intern at Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Gothenburg, Sweden
2015
Programme Assistant Intern at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Editorial

2024
Editor of the exhibition catalogue Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom. Published by the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Göteborg, Sweden2019
Editor with Joanna Nordin of the exhibition catalogue Mending a broken world – Lenke Rothman, Alina Chaiderov, Gery Georgieva. Published by Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping, Sweden
2018
Editor with Helene Schmitz, Karin Sidén and Catrin Lundeberg of Helene Schmitz’ exhibition catalogue Thinking Like a Mountain. Published by Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde and Max Ström, Stockholm, Sweden

Grants & Scholarships

2020–2022
Tentative Transmits: The Radio as G/Host in the “former East”, with Marianna Feher. Artistic research and development funding, Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
2019- 2020
Eurosis, with Marianna Feher. City of Stockholm Culture Fund
2014-2017
Stiftelsen AAA

Other

2021-ongoing
Member of the Swedish section of AICA