Born in Budapest, Lívia Páldi is Director of BAC – Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden. From 2007-2011 she was chief curator at the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including “Other Voices, Other Rooms—Attempt(s) at Reconstruction. 50 Years of the Balázs Béla Studio,” Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2009); “Robert Capa,” Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2009); “The Producers,” Ernst Museum–Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2008); “Mircea Cantor: Future Gifts,” Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2008); “Deimantas Narkevičius: History Continued,” Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2007); “!REVOLUTION?” (with Ulrike Kremeier), Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin (2006); and “Dreamlands Burn,” Nordic Art Show 2006 (with Edit Molnár), Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2006). Currently she is preparing the English edition of a Balázs Béla Studio reader.
Páldi has edited several exhibition catalogues; she was a contributing editor of East Art Map magazine and book organized by the artist collaborative IRWIN in Ljubljana (2002–5). She participated in the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel in Amsterstam and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
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