Karsten Lund
Curator, the Renaissance Society
Karsten Lund is Curator at the Renaissance Society, a non-collecting contemporary art institution located at the University of Chicago, where he organizes exhibitions, works closely with artists to produce new commissions, edits publications, and oversees a wide variety of public programs. He organized Jill Magid’s exhibition Tender: Balance (April 10–May 23) at the museum, and other recent exhibitions including Haig Aivazian: All of the Lights (2021); Nine Lives (2020); LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze (2019) with Solveig Øvstebø; David Maljkovic: Also on View (2019); and Unthought Environments (2018). In 2017, Lund launched “Intermissions,” an ongoing performance series staged in the empty gallery space in between exhibitions, which has featured artists such as Camille Norment, Gordon Hall, keyon gaskon, Eglė Budvytytė, and Xavier Cha.
Photo credit: Meg T. Noe
Participating in
Artist Talk | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This conversation streamed live on April 10th at 6pm CDT. Please view a recording of the conversation above. Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society thinks about the circulation of currency and measures of absence and loss, with dimensions that are both intimate […] More information →
Exhibition Tour | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This tour was live-streamed on Monday, April 12 at 5:30pm CDT. Karsten Lund (Curator, Renaissance Society) leads a virtual walk-through of Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society, navigating immersive 3D documentation of the gallery space and discussing the works in the show, their installation at the Ren, and broader conceptual threads running through […] More information →