Kai Kartio

Theme: CURATING

THU - 13.00 MAIN STAGE

Museum Director, FIN

Kai Kartio, born in 1961, graduated in Art History from University of Helsinki. He worked at the Old Masters Department of the Finnish National Gallery from 1991 to 1999 and was director of Turku Art Museum in 1999-2001.

Since 2001 he has been director of Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki. Kartio is now heading its successor Amos Rex. It is the major new art museum in Helsinki, with exciting underground exhibition spaces by JKMM architects.

Theme: Curating meaninful content