Anne Szefer Karlsen is a curator, a writer and an editor. She was curator for Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF 2013 (with Bassam el Baroni and Eva González-Sancho) titled Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy? (September 2013), editor of the anthology Self-Organised (with Stine Hebert, Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre, 2013) and is the series editor for the book series Dublett (Hordaland Art Centre, 2013-2015). She was Director of Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway (2008-14).