11 October 2023 from 4:00 PM / lecture hall 537 at Faculty of Art and Design

On the Myth of the Lonesome Artist / Alice Máselníková
The lecture will be conducted in the English language

Hermann Hesse in his novel Narcissus and Goldmund presents the figure of the methodical thinker and the free spirited artist as two contradicting souls who cannot share the same path. But they can learn from each other, even if in a permanent struggle to find the most meaningful way to coexist.

TWorking simultaneously as an artist and a project manager, curator or gallerist – are these professions contradicting or complementing each other? How do you navigate in a world of art (and artist) overproduction and still manage both your own and the others’ art projects, all without compromising your career and dissolving your focus? In this presentation Máselníková shares her varied experience in working as a project manager of both large- and small-scale European projects, independent curator and cultural funding consultant, in parallel to maintaining her practice as a visual artist.

Alice Máselníková is a Czech painter and curator based in Stockholm. She is one of the three creative directors of Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, project leader of the European project Artist-Run Network Europe and founder of the artist-run initiative Flat Octopus. Máselníková holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Philosophy from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts and Design, Dundee, and an MA in Curating Art from Stockholm University. She also studied Fine Art at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She also works as a freelance editor, curator and cultural funding consultant. Her work has been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions and is represented in several private and public collections in Sweden and internationally.