Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an author, curator and occasional teacher with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic theory who has worked extensively with residencies. Since 2021 he is also editor of Ord&Bild together with Ann Ighe. Critic/curator in Residency at HIAP, Helsinki and Art OMI, NY, 2023. From 2024, chair of The Swedish Association of Curators and mentor at Saastamoinen Foundation’s international mentoring programme, UNIARTS Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki with Angela Rosenberg. He has for over two decades curated and co-curated several experimental and longterm projects and numerous exhibitions on four continents including international gatherings, biennales and festivals such as the 5th Project Biennial of Contemporary Art D-0 ARK Underground the VR Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Cycle Music and Art Festival Berlin/ Reykjavík/ Koparvogur (2018), Survival Kit 9 in Riga, Latvia, Sinopale 6, Sinop, Turkey (2017), Tunnel Vision, the 8th Momentum biennale in Moss, Norway (2015) and (I)ndependent People, the visual art focus of Reykjavík Arts Festival (2012). He is is part of Transhemisférica, founded and directed Curatorial Residency In Stockholm, CRIS (2015-2020) and was the first artistic director of the interregional artproject Nya Småland (now Smålandstriennialen) on commission by four regional art museums and a university, including the first edition of the triennial (2016- 2020). Formerly project manager for visual art at Iaspis (2009-2014), curator at Moderna Museet (2008-09) and employed at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2005-07). His writing has been published widely in several languages in publications and catalogues around the world. Engqvist co-founded the The Swedish Association of Curators, is an advisory board member of the Nordic Art Association, and frequently works as an advisor and jury member. He has lectured and taught in various universities and artschools including KABK in the Hauge, the Iceland University of the Arts, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Konstfack, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies in Bombay, Stockholm University, Södertörn University, HDK-Valandat theUniversity of Gothenburg, DieAngewandte in Vienna, and Uniarts in Helsinki.
Mentor at Saastamoinen Foundation international programme of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland 2024–25 with Angela Rosenberg
Libia Castro & ÓlafurÓlafsson –Afbygging stóriðjunnar í Helguvík /Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík, 24.2–28.4 2024 Larissa Sansour – The past never was, it only is / Fortíðin var aldrei, hún bara er, 22.5–17.8.2025
Exihibition and performance production, writing and editing on free-lance basis for a.o. Momentum (Moss), Färgfabriken Norr (Östersund), Färgfabriken, Tensta Konsthall, Konstakademien, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Prince of Wales Museum (Bombay), Reykjavík Art Museum, The Living Art Museum (Reykjavík) and private galleries. Initator of Curatorial Residency in Stockholm (CRIS) in collaboration with the Nordic Art Association.
тройка – Kristján Steingrímur, Pétur Magnússon & Tumi Magnússon, February 6th – May 23rd 2021 Rófurass – Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, February 6th – May 23rd 2021