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Jury member Maaretta Jaukkuri, Chief Curator, Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Maaretta Jaukkuri was born in Rovaniemi, Finland, in
1944. She studied English philology and art history
at Helsinki University in 1964-70. In 1970-83, she worked
as exhibitions and information secretary at the Artists'
Association of Finland, and between 1983 and 1989 she
was head of exhibitions at The Nordic Arts Centre, Suomenlinna,
in Helsinki. Since 1990, Jaukkuri has been the senior
curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (from 1998
Kiasma) where she is in charge of exhibitions. In this
capacity she has been a member of the curator team for
ARS 95 and 01. During 1989-98, she co-curated the major
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international sculpture programme Skulpturlandskap
Nordland/Artscape Nordland. She has also freelanced as
curator for the Nordic pavilion at the Venice Biennale
in 1988, the European section of the Saõ Paulo
Biennale in 1998 (together with Bart de Baere), and the
ARS Baltica Prologue exhibition in Kiel in 1991. She was
also part of the curator team for the "Lebt und arbeitet
in Wien" exhibition in Vienna in 2000. She has several
commissions of trust in Finland and other countries, for
instance as a board member of Manifesta, the European
biennale. She is also the author of numerous articles
and books on contemporary art and has organised international
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