Maja Vardjan je arhitektka in kustosinja. Kot kreativna direktorica je vodila galerijo “T5 Project Space” in delala kot urednica za arhitekturo pri reviji Ambient. Danes je zaposlena kot kustosinja za oblikovanje in arhitekturo v Muzeju za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO) v Ljubljani. Je avtorica publikacije “Design in Dialogue” bila je tudi kustosinja razstave “Silent Revolutions: sodobno oblikovanje v Sloveniji”. Kot sokustosinja je pripravila razstavo “Pod skupno streho: moderne javne zgradbe iz zbirke MAO in drugih arhivov” (MAO, 2013), bila je tudi kustosinja razstave “Saša J. Maechtig: sistemi, strukture, strategije” (MAO, 2015–2016); je avtorica prispevkov ter urednica številnih katalogov in publikacij s področja arhitekture in oblikovanja. Maja Vardjan je zaslužna za ključne spremembe in uspeh ljubljanskega Bienala oblikovanja. Skupaj z Janom Boelenom in Cvetko Požar je bila sokustosinja 24. bienala oblikovanja z naslovom “BIO 50: 3, 2, 1 … TEST”, ki je spremenil poslanstvo in usmeritev tega najstarejšega oblikovalskega bienala v Evropi ter vplival na percepcijo oblikovalskih bienalov po svetu.

Maja Vardjan is an architect and curator. Following her time as creative director of the T5 Project Space gallery and the architecture editor of Ambient magazine, she now works as curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO). She is the author of the publication “Design in Dialogue” and curated the “Silent Revolutions: Contemporary Design in Slovenia” touring exhibition (MAO, 2011-2015). She also curated “Under the Common Roof”, an exhibition on modern public buildings drawing from MAO’s archive (MAO, 2013) and has served as a contributor and editor of several books and catalogues. Maja Vardjan deserves much of the credit for the major changes and overall success of Ljubljana’s recent iterations of the Biennial of Design. Together with Jan Boelen and Cvetka Požar she co-curated the 24th Biennial of Design, BIO 50. In honour of BIO’s 50th anniversary, the team managed to change the focus and path of Europe’s oldest design biennial and to influence the traditional thinking behind and perception of the role of international biennials today. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Saša J. Maechtig: Systems, Structures, Strategies (MAO, 2015).