Cecilia Andersson

Cecilia Andersson (born in Stockholm in 1961) is curator at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden. She studied photography at ICP in New York and holds a masters degree in curating at Goldsmiths college, London. In 2003 she initiated Werk in Liverpool, a platform for discussing the changing role of the artist in contexts of urban regeneration. Her interests today are primarily concerned with the social function of art and include co-creation processes, interdisciplinary approaches and contextual challenges in terms of communication and presentation of artists’ works.

She has lived and worked in a number of countries, among them Spain, Great Britain, United States and Lebanon. Her writing has been published extensively in various international journals, magazines and artists’ catalogues.