Olivia Berkowicz is a curator and editor based in Stockholm. She works at the intersection of critical visuality studies, contemporary art theory and psychoanalysis. This manifests in work exploring geopolitics and human geography. 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. For the former, she completed a thesis titled Ecologies of Care and Intimacy – Curatorial Practices in the Capitalocene. The work sought to explore curatorial methodologies of intimacy, relatedness and non-capitalist modes of production.
Recently she worked at Sörmlands Museum where she co-curated Mending a Broken World, a retrospective exhibition on the Hungarian-Swedish artist Lenke Rothman, with contributions by contemporary artists Alina Chaiderov and Gery Georgieva. She is one of the founders of Ferrara Residency, an international residency program in Ferrara, Italy. Since 2017, artists and researchers have been invited to explore forms of togetherness while reflecting on means of precarious and affective labour under capitalist conditions.
Image 1. Sensory Futures: Consciousness razing (2018), Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. Photo: Emmeli Person
Image 2. Lenke Rothman & Alina Chaiderov - Mending a Broken World (2018-2019), Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping. Curated with Joanna Nordin. Photo: Valdemar Asp
Image 3. A Fluid Haze, Ferrara Residency (2018), Ferrara. Untitled degraded painting by Ruth Angel Edwards. Photo: Andrea Bighi
Image 4. Who Cares? Ferrara Residency (2017), Ferrara. Photo: Karolina Mikeskova
