Consultant to The Storefront Collection

Selene Wendt

Selene Wendt is curator and writer based in Oslo, Norway. She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including Shirin Neshat Beyond Orientalism, Ghada Amer Reading Between the Threads, Liza Lou Leaves of Glass, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Mil Maneras Para Decir Adios, Daniele Buetti Will Beauty Save the World, Abbas Kiarostami Shadows in the Snow, and Crispin Gurholt Live Photo in addition to thematic group exhibitions such as Art Through the Eye of the Needle, which addressed the breakdown of barriers between art and fashion, A Doll’s House, which included artists whose works are influenced by doll symbolism, Equatorial Rhythms, which featured visual artists whose works are influenced by music, and Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art, co-curated with Khwezi Gule.
She has written and edited numerous exhibition catalogues and books, including Marianne Heske +/o (Skira), Crispin Gurholt Live Photo II (Skira), and Fresh Paint (Charta), and co-edited When a Painting Moves…Something Must be Rotten! with Paco Barragán (Charta). Her most recent large-scale exhibition,The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, was curated in collaboration with Gerardo Mosquera. The exhibition features international artists whose work is directly inspired by literature, and is accompanied by a Skira publication.