Christina Lehnert appointed as curator of 13th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA)
13th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
20 September – 30 November 2025
Christina Lehnert, curator at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, has been appointed as curator of the 13th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA). The Biennale runs from September 20–November 30, 2025.
As organiser of GIBCA, Röda Sten Konsthall looks forward to developing the coming biennial together with Christina Lehnert and four other institutions in the city of Gothenburg and the region of West Sweden.
“I am honored and excited to be able to work with the GIBCA team on the upcoming 13th edition of the biennial in various locations and institutions in and beyond Goteborg. As a curator it becomes more and more crucial to foster strong alliances among institutions and to secure the artist’s practice. As a renowned biennial, GIBCA can provide these spaces and networks for discourses that serve the urgent needs of art and the artist’s voice.” – Christina Lehnert
As curator of GIBCA, Lehnert wants to cater to the local community in Gothenburg. The artist list is yet to be revealed, but it seems clear that it will be internationally oriented, at least in regards to the five or six artists who will constitute the core of the show. In contrast to GIBCA 10 and 11 – a single curatorial project that took Sweden’s colonial history as point of departure – and GIBCA 12 which addressed the future, Lehnert vows to stay in the present and confront it head-on.
Christina Lehnert has been a curator at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden since 2022. From 2018 to 2022, she served as a curator at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main. Before that, she was the interim director of the Kunstverein Braunschweig and received a curatorial fellowship from the Gebert Foundation for Culture in Switzerland. Lehnert has worked in numerous institutions, including the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, where she continues to serve as a member of the international acquisitions committee.
In recent years, she has curated a series of exhibitions focused on art as a reflection of political moments, often exploring micro-narratives against the backdrop of larger socio-political issues. Her curatorial interests lie in sound and performance, as well as collective practices in the arts. These projects have featured artists such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Jimmy Robert, William Pope.L, Georgia Sagri, Lydia Ourahmane, Willem de Rooij, Alia Farid, Hajra Waheed, Leo Asemota, and Nástio Mosquito, among others.
Photo credit: 13th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) Christina Lehnert © Ellika Henrikson
