Senior 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 was the exhibitions and information secretary of the Artists’ Association of Finland, and from 1983 to 1989 she was head of exhibitions at the Nordic Arts Centre, Suomenlinna, 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 and collections. In this capacity she has been a member of the curator team for ARS 95 and 01. In 1989-98, she co-curated the major international sculpture programme Skulpturlandskap Nordland / Artscape Nordland. She also freelanced as a curator for the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1988, the European section of the São 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. Since 2004 she is professor of “Art and Common Space” at the Faculty of Art and Architecture, University of Trondheim. 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 seminars in Finland and Norway.