artist in residence July - August 2011, Hungary /
Born in Budapest, Lívia Páldi worked as chief curator at the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest between 2007 and 2011.
She has organized numerous exhibitions, including “Other Voices, Other Rooms—Attempt(s) at Reconstruction. 50 Years of the Balázs Béla Studio”, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2009); “Robert Capa,” Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2009); “The Producers”, Ernst Museum– Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2008); “Mircea Cantor: Future Gifts”, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2008); “Deimantas Narkevičius: History Continued”, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2007); “!REVOLUTION?” (with Ulrike Kremeier), Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin (2006); and “Dreamlands Burn”, Nordic Art Show 2006 (with Edit Molnár), Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (2006). Currently she is preparing the English edition of a Balázs Béla Studio reader.
Páldi has edited several exhibition catalogues; she was a contributing editor of East Art Map magazine, a book organized by the artist collaborative IRWIN in Ljubljana (2002–05).
She participated in the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel in Amsterstam and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
She is one of the curatorial agents of dOCUMENTA (13).