Katalin Timár
is a curator and theorist, a doctoral candidate in art history at ELTE University,
Budapest. Between 1999 and 2001, she was a founding member of a research
group for contemporary art theory, based at the Dept. of Aesthetics at ELTE
University and as such, she served as programme directors of three international
conferences and workshops (among which The Risks and Responsibilities of
Representation was the last one). She has been the author of numerous articles
and essays, and has been the editor of a dozen catalogues and other publications.
Her fields of interest are photography and spectatorship, including postcolonialism
and gender studies. Currently she works as a curator in the Ludwig Museum
Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art. She was the recipient of a Getty Grant
(1999), a Doctoral Support Grant (CEU, 2000), and a Henry Moore Research
Fellowship (2001).