Sarah Guarino Werner is a curator and art historian. Working at Haninge konsthall, a municipality run art-space in the southern parts of Stockholm, she aims at connecting the local to a global setting as well as bringing today’s urgent questions to Haninge. During the first half of 2023 she will be working at Tensta konsthall. She previously worked at Södertälje konsthall and at Studio Carsten Höller.

By working and collaborating with artists concerned with issues ranging from the role of Lithium today (David Larsson) to lesbian archives (Louise Blad) she hopes to expand the visitor’s scope of perspective and action.

Her practice ranges from organizing talks and festivals such as the long running “Torsdagssalongen” at Södertälje konsthall as well as the queer festivals Queer(in)g Södertälje and QueerMove, to writing texts for artists like Maria Nordin and Valentina Vetturi. She currently works on an essay concerned with how the role of the intestine, as a figuration, could help us read and understand art’s role in society today. Being part of the sociopsychodrama-group “Discovering the Languages of Peace” she aims at using the sociopsychodramatic method as well as art as a common ground for thinking where the methodologies of the social sciences falls short.

Between the years 2013 and 2015 she studied at The International Master’s Program in Curating at Stockholm University. She also holds an MA from The Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm and a BA in Art History from Stockholm University.

ART EDUCATION

2013 – 2015   Stockholm University, Curating Art, International Master’s Programme in Curating

                         Art including Management and Law.     

2004 – 2010   Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Master Program (MFA)

2009 – 2010   Stockholm University, Bachelor Course Art History

2007                Stockholm University, Material and Visual Culture

2006 – 2007   Stockholm University, Art History

2001 – 2004   Idun Lovén, painting class

2002 – 2003   Beckmans, advertising

OTHER EDUCATION

2019              Tillskärarakademin, Fashion Course

2011              Bergh’s School of Communication, Copywriting

2010              Stockholm University, Project Management

2008              Södertörns Högskola, Philosophy A

2006              Stockholm University, History of Ideas, Natural Sciences

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2022              Längmanska kulturfonden, grant for book about TUPILAK 

2019              Kulturbryggan, Ljud som queer historiebärare. (TUPILAK in collaboration with Anna

                       Giertz, Birt Berglund and Johan Sundell) 

2019              MUCF, TUPILAK in collaboration with Nordic Bears

2009              Sandbergs Fond grant

2008              Brucebo Travel Grant

2004              Haninge Cultural Scholarship

POSITION OF TRUST

2018 –            President, TUPILAK- Queer cultural workers in the Nordic area

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Swedish: Mother Tongue

Italian: Mother Tongue

English: Fluent

French: Basic Skills