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OLIVIA BERKOWICZ
Curator, writer and researcher
+46 (0)708 529723
olivia.berkowicz@gmail.com

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Olivia Berkowicz is a curator, writer, and researcher of visual and sonic culture. Currently, she is Curator of Exhibitions at the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft. Her work is located at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology, with a particular focus on archival research and collections.

Between 2020 and 2025, she co-founded and convened Tentative Transmits, a curatorial audio platform investigating radio histories, solidarity practices, and migration across and beyond Central and Eastern Europe. 

Her work has been presented at Index – Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Silent Green, Röda Sten Konsthall, Mint, and MNAC Bucharest. To date, she has also been selected for TheMuseumsLab and the Gwangju Biennale Academy International Curator Course, and has been in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Rupert, and Cité internationale des arts. Her writings have been published in Kajet Journal, Brand, and Occasional Groundwork.





CV

EDUCATION

2019–2021

Decolonizing Architecture: Experimental Sites of Knowledge Production, Royal Institute of Art
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

2014–2016

Curating Art: International Master’s Program, including Management and Law
STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

2015–2016

Philosophy in the Context of Art, Royal Institute of Art

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

2010–2013

BA History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
LONDON, UK

RESIDENCIES & RESEARCH


2026

Residency
SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas & Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
TheMuseumsLab
BERLIN, GERMANY

2026

TheMuseumsLab
DAAD, Museum für Naturkunde
BERLIN, GERMANY; KIGALI, RWANDA

2025

International Curator Course
Gwangju Biennale
GWANGJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

2025

Summer School “Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship”
Moderna Galerija, Museum of African Art Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Montenegro
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA; BELGRADE, SERBIA; PODGORICA, MONTENEGRO

2024

Curatorial Visit in Vilnius
Index Foundation
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

2024

Residency
Rupert
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

2021

Residency
Cité international des arts
PARIS, FRANCE

2021

Web residency “Solidarity is a Verb”, with the Castle of Crossed Destinies
Akademie Schloss Solitude
STUTTGART, GERMANY

2020–2021

Fellowship
Akademie Schloss Solitude
STUTTGART, GERMANY

2019

Now that’s what I call an artist’s residency!
PRAKSIS
OSLO, NORWAY

CURATORIAL

2022–present

Curator of Exhibitions
the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN

2023

Listening Session with Tentative Transmits and Meira Ahmemulić
MINT KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

2021

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

2019–2020

Project manager of An(Other) Vernacular with Afaina de Jong
Grafikens Hus
SÖDERTÄLJE, SWEDEN

2017–2019

Curator with Joanna Nordin of Mending a broken world – Lenke Rothman, Alina Chaiderov
Sörmlands Museum
NYKÖPING, SWEDEN

2017–2019

Organiser and curator with resina collective of Ferrara Residency
FERRARA, ITALY

EDITORIAL

2024

Editor of the exhibition catalogue Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom.
PUBLISHED BY the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft
GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN

2019

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 Helen Schmitz’ exhibition catalogue Thinking Like a Mountain.
PUBLISHED BY Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde and Max Ström

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

GRANTS IN SELECTION

2023–2024

Research grant for Tentative Transmits
Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse

2020–2022

Artistic research and development funding for Tentative Transmits: The Radio as G/Host in the “former East”
Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm

2019–2020

Eurosis
City of Stockholm Culture Fund

2014–2017

Stiftelsen AAA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2025–2026

Nomination Committee for the Swedish Curators’ Association

2021–ongoing

Member of the Swedish section of AICA