Fatima Hellberg

Fatima Hellberg
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Born	1986 (age 39–40) Sweden
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupation	Curator Art historian Author Editor
Organization	Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Fatima Hellberg (born 1986 in Sweden) is a curator, art historian, author, and editor. From October 1, 2025, she is General Director of mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.

Education

Hellberg studied art history and visual culture at the University of Oxford and Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London.

Career

In the years 2011-2025, she served as a curator at artist-founded cooperative Cubitt and Electra, an arts organisation at the intersection between art and experimental music in London.

Her curatorial practice is formulated in close dialogue with artists, often with long-running collaborations and a marked attention to the experiential qualities of the viewer and exhibition-making as form. Some artists with whom Hellberg has worked with on an ongoing basis include artist writer and activist Gregg Bordowowitz, artists Tolia Astakhishvili, James Richards, Ellen Cantor and Annika Eriksson, with whom she has made work under the alter-ego Ada Frände.

She has taught and lectured at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam; Städelschule, Frankfurt; Oxford University and the Art Academy of Düsseldorf, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, among others. Hellberg has edited and written for numerous catalogues and contributed to journals including Texte zur Kunst, Frieze Magazine, Kunstkritikk, Afterall and Kunstforum. Selected edited publications include: Ellen Cantor: A history of the world as it has become known to me; Divine Drudgery, David Medalla: Parables of Friendship and Philosopher of her own Ruin.

Critic Andreas Schlaegel identifies three defining characteristics in Hellberg's curatorial practice: first, her precise stagings of space in which complex narratives can be explored; which have become the "hallmark" of her curatorial practice; second, the way she condenses a wide range of materials into finely spun narratives; and third, her focus on collaboration and exchange with institutions, artists, and/or curators. He writes: "Altogether, Hellberg's curatorial projects demonstrate a keen interest in exhibition-making as an artistic form."

Awards

The exhibition Parables of Friendship by Filipino artist David Medalla, curated by Hellberg, was awarded "Special Exhibition of the Year 2021" by the German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). During her tenure, the Bonner Kunstverein has received the ADKV–Art Cologne Award for Best Kunstverein of the Year 2022.

Select exhibitions

• 2025: Gregg Bordowitz, Dort: ein Gefühl, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• 2023: Tolia Astakhishvili, The First Finger, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• 2022: David Medalla, Parables of Friendship, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• 2021: The Holding Environment, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• 2019: Ghislaine Leung, CONSTITUTION, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
• 2016: Ellen Cantor, Ellen Cantor, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

Select publications

• Neue Kunst in Hamburg. Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V., Hamburg 2024
• Ellen Cantor. A history of the world as it has become known to me. Sternberg Press, Berlin 2018
• David Medalla. Parables of friendship. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022

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