Jan-Erik Lundström is a Swedish curator and the co-curator of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale

Bucharest Biennale

The Bucharest Biennale is a contemporary art festival held every two years in Bucharest, Romania. The first Biennale was held in 2005, with the following one held in May-June 2006. From 2006 onwards, the festival will be held every two years...

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Biography

Lundström is a lecturer, curator, organizer, and writer. A few of his latest exhibitions include "Politics of Place", "Killing Me Softly" (Tirana Biennial), "Projects for a Revolution" (Mois de la Photo, Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

), "Double Vision" (Prague Biennial), "Same, Same, but Different" and "After the Fact", a major survey towards documentary practices in contemporary art.

Books

He is the author of numerous books, including Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi (Thoughts on Photography), Irving Penn

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...

 and Horizons: Towards a Global Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

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Teaching and Writing

Both a guest professor at HISK, Antwerp, Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 and at the Kunstakademie, Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

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, Lundström is also a busy lecturer and writer internationally, a contributor to various symposia and to art and idea magazines such as Glänta, European Photography, Paletten

Paletten

Paletten is Sweden's oldest and longest-running art magazine, now in its seventh decade of continuous production. It is published in Swedish four times a year by Stiftelsen Paletten , located in Gothenburg....

 and tema celeste.