Charles Esche
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Charles Esche is a curator and writer. Since 2004, he has been Director of the Van Abbemuseum
, Eindhoven, Netherlands
. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall
Journal and Afterall Books with Mark Lewis
. Afterall is a contemporary art publication which was first launched in 1998 and is based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
He is a theoretical advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and visiting professor at NABA, Milano. In 2010, he curated U#, the Slovenian Triennale in Ljubljana. In 2009 and 2007 he was co-curator with Khalil Rabah of the 2nd RIWAQ Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine. In 2005 he was co-curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial
with Vasif Kortun
http://artforum.com/news/week=200439 and in 2002 the co-curator with Hou Hanru and Song Wan Kyung of the Gwangju Biennale
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/FEATURES/park/park4-24-02.asp, Republic of Korea. Between 2000 and 2004 he was the Director of Rooseum
Center for Contemporary Art in Malmo, Sweden
.
His main work has involved working on the constitution of art institutions, most recently the museum but also the qualities of the art centre or biennial. His writings on institutional possibility and policy are useful aids to rethinking the relation between art and social change. A valuable book is the reader Art and Social Change published by Afterall and Tate Publishing and co-edited by Esche and Will Bradley. He also co-edited a reader called The Netherlands, for example with Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova for the 2007 Venice Biennale. He has written for many art catalogues and magazines and a selection of his texts was published in 2005 under the title Modest Proposals by Baglam Press, Istanbul in Turkish and English, edited by Serkan Ozkaya
.
Van Abbemuseum
Van Abbemuseum is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel river. Established in 1936, the Abbe Museum is named after its founder, Abbe Henri. Abbe was a lover of modern art and wanted to enjoy it there from Eindhoven...
, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall
Afterall
Afterall is a nonprofit contemporary art research and publishing organisation. It is based in London, at Central St Martins College of Art & Design....
Journal and Afterall Books with Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis (artist)
Mark Lewis in Hamilton, Ontario is a Canadian artist. Noted for his film installations, Lewis represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale.-Biography:...
. Afterall is a contemporary art publication which was first launched in 1998 and is based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
He is a theoretical advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and visiting professor at NABA, Milano. In 2010, he curated U#, the Slovenian Triennale in Ljubljana. In 2009 and 2007 he was co-curator with Khalil Rabah of the 2nd RIWAQ Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine. In 2005 he was co-curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul Biennial
The International Istanbul Biennial is a contemporary art exhibition, held every two years in Istanbul, Turkey, since 1987. The biennial is organised by the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in İstanbul in the field of visual arts between artists...
with Vasif Kortun
Vasif Kortun
Vasif Kortun is a Turkish curator, writer and teacher in the field of contemporary visual art, its institutions and exhibition practices....
http://artforum.com/news/week=200439 and in 2002 the co-curator with Hou Hanru and Song Wan Kyung of the Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju Biennale
The Gwangju Biennale, which started in September 1995 in the city of Gwangju in the South Jeolla province of South Korea, was Asia's first contemporary art biennale. The purpose of Gwangju Biennale is globalization of art and it respect diversity rather than uniformity...
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/FEATURES/park/park4-24-02.asp, Republic of Korea. Between 2000 and 2004 he was the Director of Rooseum
Rooseum
The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, located in Malmö, Sweden, was a formally private-owned centre for contemporary art. Founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos, the Rooseum promoted experimental relationships between art, artists and audience, by offering...
Center for Contemporary Art in Malmo, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
His main work has involved working on the constitution of art institutions, most recently the museum but also the qualities of the art centre or biennial. His writings on institutional possibility and policy are useful aids to rethinking the relation between art and social change. A valuable book is the reader Art and Social Change published by Afterall and Tate Publishing and co-edited by Esche and Will Bradley. He also co-edited a reader called The Netherlands, for example with Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova for the 2007 Venice Biennale. He has written for many art catalogues and magazines and a selection of his texts was published in 2005 under the title Modest Proposals by Baglam Press, Istanbul in Turkish and English, edited by Serkan Ozkaya
Serkan Özkaya
Serkan Ozkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist whose work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction, and typically operates outside of traditional art spaces. Ozkaya lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City, USA. He holds an M.F.A...
.
External links
- http://www.afterall.org/
- http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl
- http://www.neme.org/184/charles-esche
- http://www.iksv.org/bienal/bienal9/english/?Page=Curators
- http://www.republicart.net/disc/institution/esche01_en.htm
- http://www.nrc.nl/opinie/article2275391.ece/Kunst_en_de_Thorbecke-paradox