Gertrud Sandqvist

Gertrud Sandqvist was Rector of Malmö Art Academy from 2011 to 2020, a post she also previously held from 1995 to 2007. 

Professor Sandqvist has been writing extensively on mainly European contemporary art since the early 1990. She authored Estragon, a monograph on the Norwegian painter Olav Christopher Jenssen, published in 2018.  She wrote about Swedish pioneer Hilma af Klint's relation to gnosticism 2026. She has been researching on Hilma af Klint since 2010 and has written several texts on her work. In 2025 she was the editor of Malmö Art Academy's Reader on philosopher Hannah Arendt, Pearl Divers and wrote the introduction. She has also been writing about the works of artists Marcus Matt, Samaneh Reyhani , Oscar Eriksson Furunes, Viktor Rosdahl, Sirous Namazi ,Fredrik Værslev, Lars Nilsson, Matts Leiderstam, Cecilia Edefalk,  Nina Roos, Martti Aiha, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Per Maning, Vibeke Tandberg. Cristina Iglesias, Heimo Zobernig, Thomas Schutte, Vincent Geyskens , Angela Ferreira, Annemie van Kerckhofen , Lili Dujourie and Luc Tuymans.

Sandqvist was the founder and editor of siksi- the Nordic Art Magazine 1986-1990, art critic at Hufvudstadsbladet and Svenska Dagbladet 1988-1992, director of Galleri F 15, Norway 1992-94, head of department at school of Photography, Gothenburg University 1994-1995. She was member of the jury of DAAD , Berlin, 1998-2002, Carnegie Art Award 2001-2004, board member of Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur 2003-2012, member of the jury of  Barbro Bäckströms stipendiefond 1999-2007, 2011 - and member of  advisory board for Edstrandska stipendiefonden 2011-. She was a member of  Novo Nordisk Foundation committee on Research in Art and Art History 2018-2024. She was visiting professor at HISK - Higher Institue for Fine Arts 1995-2020.

Sandqvist got Lund University Pedagogical Prize in 2001 and was awarded His Majesty the King's Order of Seraphim, size 8, in 2016.