Rado Ištok is a curator, writer and editor based in Stockholm. He is a curator of the 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture programme at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (2018-2020), consisting of five artist residencies and a workshop (2019) leading to new commissions and an exhibition (2020); and a project leader of Spaces of Care, Disobedience and Desire (2018-2020), a discursive research platform in collaboration with Marie-Louise Richards and Natália Rebelo, supported by artistic research funding of the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Together with artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn he is editor of Crating the World (Athénée Press, 2019). Besides Sweden and Lithuania he has curated a number of exhibitions and programmes in his native Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He participated in Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art, and he holds an MA in Curating Art from Stockholm University and Art History from Charles University in Prague. As a governmental scholar, he conducted research at the University of Copenhagen and participated in numerous workshops and residencies in London, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Bucharest, Rennes, Nice, Hong Kong, Madrid and Salzburg.