CV

Current
  • Professor in Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
    2016 - present
  • Director of PhDArts, international doctorate programme in visual art and design, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
    2008 - present 
  • Reader and Head of the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice at the University of the Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands.
    2007 - present
  • Art critic at the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
    1982 - present 
Past 
  • Chair of the Dutch section of AICA, International Association of Art Critics.
    2002 - 2010 
  • Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands.
    1996 - 2007 
Awards and grants 
  • 2017 - NWO/SIA Smart Culture - Art and Culture research grant for project 'Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making'.
  • 2016 - NWO Creative Industry - KIEM research grant for project 'Critical Making as a model for art practice in the digital age'. 
  • 2011 - Publication grant Mondriaan Foundation for See it Again, Say it Again. The Artist as Researcher, published by Valiz Amsterdam.
  • 2005 - Research grant The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. 
  • 2003 - Jan Bart Klaster Award for Dutch and Flemish art criticism. 
Publications (selection)
  • The Perfect Spectator. The experience of the art work and reception-aesthetics. 2017, Valiz, Amsterdam.
  • Of Sponge, Stone and the Intertwinement with the Here and Now. A Methodology of Artistic Research. Inaugural Lecture: 2016, Valiz, Amsterdam.
  • ''Why Write? On Writing as Art Practice''. In H. Borgdorff and A. Lewin (eds.), SAR International Conference Catalogue: Writing. 2016, Society for Artistic Research/University of the Arts, Amsterdam/The Hague.
  • Veranderend Kunstonderwijs II. Het samengaan van theorie en praktijk in het onderwijs. Eds. Onno Schilstra and Janneke Wesseling. 2016, University of the Arts, The Hague.
  • De volmaakte beschouwer. De ervaring van het kunstwerk en de receptie-esthetica. 2015, Valiz, Amsterdam. (Dutch e-book).
  • Veranderend Kunstonderwijs. De plaats van theorie aan de kunstacademie. Eds. Onno Schilstra and Janneke Wesseling. 2013, University of the Arts, The Hague.
  • ''Hoe denkt de kunstenaar? Theorie en reflectie in het kunstonderwijs''. In H. Borgdorff and P. Sonderen (eds.), Denken in Kunst. Theorie en Reflectie in het Kunstonderwijs. 2012, Leiden University Press, Leiden.
  • See it Again, Say it Again. The Artist as Researcher. Ed. Janneke Wesseling. 2011, Valiz, Amsterdam.
  • ''Het mooiste beroep van de wereld. De kunstcriticus als verslaggever van een reis door de scheppende verbeelding''. In L. Dhaenens and H. van Gelder (eds.), Kunstkritiek. Standpunten rond beeldende kunst uit België en Nederland in een internationaal perspectief. 2010, LannooCampus, Leuven.
  • ''Generating PhD's in the Arts''. Science Guide, 25 March 2009.
  • ''Art as Poiesis''. In K. Zijlmans and R. Zwijnenberg (eds.), CO-Ops, Exploring new territories in Art and Science. 2007, De Buitenkant, Amsterdam.
  • Het museum dat niet bestond. 2004, De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam.
  • Schoonhoven, beeldend kunstenaar. 1990, SDU publishers/Openbaar Kunstbezit, The Hague /Amsterdam.
Lectures (selection)
  • 2016 - Inaugural Lecture 'Of sponge, stone and the intertwinement with the here and now. A methodology of artistic research', Leiden University, September 19.
  • 2016 - 'Interdisciplinarity and artistic research: where is the "inter" located?', at the international expert meeting Practising interdisciplinarity? States of the Art, Swiss Institute, Rome, October 10/11.
  • 2015 - 'Art criticisim and reception esthetics', in lecture series Art Now, Witte de With, Rotterdam, November 11 and De Appel, Amsterdam, November 12.
  • 2012 - 'Artistic Research: Research and Performativity', lecture during a "Real World" session of Artquest at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, October 18. 
  • 2012 - 'The Artist as Researcher', Ruby Tuesday Lecture in Schunck, Heerlen, January 17. 
  • 2012 - 'PhDArts: Art and Research', The PopUp University, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, June 13. 
  • 2011 - 'The artist as researcher', International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, November 5. 
  • 2011 - 'Towards a reception aesthetics of contemporary art', Dutch Association of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium, May 27/28. 
  • 2011 - 'How do artists think?', at the conference Beauty and Science, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, March 11. 
  • 2009 - 'Generating PhD's in the Arts', contribution at the Research Fellowship Spring Seminar in Oslo, organized by Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway, March 16 /17. 
  • 2008 - Lecture on artistic research, at De Dag van het Onderzoek, organized by the Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Kunsten (IvOK), Leuven University, on the theme of international cooperation in the field of the PhD in the arts. 
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