Christina Lehnert appointed as curator of 13th edition

Christina Lehnert, curator at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, has been appointed as curator of the 13th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA). The Biennale runs from September 20–November 30, 2025.

As organiser of GIBCA, Röda Sten Konsthall looks forward to developing the coming biennial together with Christina Lehnert and four other institutions in the city of Gothenburg and the region of West Sweden.

“I am honored and excited to be able to work with the GIBCA team on the upcoming 13th edition of the biennial in various locations and institutions in and beyond Goteborg. As a curator it becomes more and more crucial to foster strong alliances among institutions and to secure the artist’s practice. As a renowned biennial, GIBCA can provide these spaces and networks for discourses that serve the urgent needs of art and the artist’s voice.” – Christina Lehnert A first presentation of the project and Christina Lehnert’s curatorial practice will take place on November 22, 2024, in Gothenburg.

A first presentation of the project and Christina Lehnert’s curatorial practice will take place on November 22, 2024, in Gothenburg.

Christina Lehnert has been a curator at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden since 2022. From 2018 to 2022, she served as a curator at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main. Before that, she was the interim director of the Kunstverein Braunschweig and received a curatorial fellowship from the Gebert Foundation for Culture in Switzerland. Lehnert has worked in numerous institutions, including the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, where she continues to serve as a member of the international acquisitions committee.

In recent years, she has curated a series of exhibitions focused on art as a reflection of political moments, often exploring micro-narratives against the backdrop of larger socio-political issues. Her curatorial interests lie in sound and performance, as well as collective practices in the arts. These projects have featured artists such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Jimmy Robert, William Pope.L, Georgia Sagri, Lydia Ourahmane, Willem de Rooij, Alia Farid, Hajra Waheed, Leo Asemota, and Nástio Mosquito, among others.

As curator of GIBCA 13, Christina Lehnert promises to confront the present head-on. – Kunstkritikk

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Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art is a project of Röda Sten Konsthall. The 13th edition of the biennial is co-produced with Gothenburg City Library, The Gothenburg Museum of Art, Göteborgs Konsthall and Skövde Art Museum. The Biennale runs from September 20–November 30, 2025.

Curators of previous editions:

2023: João Laia, forms of the surrounding futures

2021: Lisa Rosendahl, The Ghost Ship and the Sea Change

2019: Lisa Rosendahl, Part of the Labyrinth

2017: Nav Haq, WheredoIendandyoubegin – On Secularity

2015: Elvira Dyangani Ose, A Story within a Story…

2013: Katerina Gregos, Andjeas Ejiksson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Claire Tancons, Joanna Warsza, Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination

2011: Sarat Maharaj, Dorethee Albrecht, Stina Edblom, Gertrud Sandqvist, Pandemonium – Art in a Time of Creativity Fever

2009: Celia Prado and Johan Pousette, What a Wonderful World

2007: Edi Muka and Joa Ljungberg, Rethinking Dissent

2005: Sara Arrhenius, more! than this – Negotiating Realities

2003: Carl Michael von Hausswolf, Against All Evens

2001: Ewa Brodin, Britt Ignell and Lasse Lindkvist, Experience – Dissolution