Kathryn Weir is a curator, writer and art historian based in Paris. She lectures on artistic research and the social sciences at Sciences Po, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and was previously co-artistic director of the Lagos Biennial (2021-2024), artistic director of the MADRE museum in Naples (2020-23) and director of multidisciplinary programs at the Centre Pompidou (2014-2019), where she created Cosmopolis, a platform for research-based, socially engaged and collaborative practices. From 2006 to 2014, at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, she was head of international art and a co-curator of the 5th, 6th and 7th editions of the Asia-Pacific Triennial. She is currently working on the publication Jimmie Durham: humanity is not a completed project (Skira, 2026) and on Technologies of gender (co-curated with Paula Nascimento, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2027). Past exhibition projects include Green Snake: women-centred ecologies (Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2023-2024), Rethinking Nature (Madre, 2021-2022) and Collective Body (Dhaka Art Summit 2020). Kathryn Weir’s curatorial and writing practice engages with critical thinking on technology, race, class, gender and political ecology. Her publications include Clément Cogitore: Ferdinandea, the ephemeral island (2025), Beauty and Terror: sites of colonialism and fascism (2024), Rethinking Nature (2024), Utopia Dystopia: the myth of progress seen from the south (2024), Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh (2022), Cosmopolis #1.5: enlarged intelligence (2018), Sculpture is Everything (2012), The view from elsewhere (2009) and Modern Ruin (2008).
