The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Axel Wieder is the new director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Previously, he was the director of Bergen Kunsthall, where he oversaw a widely acclaimed, interdisciplinary program with an international purview and local roots that encompassed exhibitions, live projects, and a broad event and outreach program. In his work, Wieder focuses on the history and theory of exhibitions, architecture, and social space, as well as on questions of political representation. His work seeks to expand art institutions to become open spaces in which art can be shown in connection with adjacent areas of society and with attention to different practices and discourses. Under his leadership, the program of Bergen Kunsthall succeeded in attracting new audiences through collaborations and an ambitious program. From 2014 to 2018, Wieder was the director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm and before that, from 2012 to 2014, served as the head of program at Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. He was responsible for the program of Ludlow 38 – Goethe Institute in New York from 2010 to 2011 after being responsible as artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 2007 to 2010. In 1999, he founded Pro qm, a bookshop and discourse platform, together with Katja Reichard and Jesko Fezer in Berlin.

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