Kris Dittel Curator and editor. Born in 1983, Slovakia. Lives and works in Rotterdam.

Contact: [email protected]

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2013-14 De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam 2009-10 University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences MA, Arts and Heritage 2001-06 Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Economics and Administration MSc, Economic Policy and Administration

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE AND POSITIONS HELD

2020 To Be Like Water, curator, exhibition and public programme Sculpture International Rotterdam (cancelled) 2019 Post-Opera, co-curated with Jelena Novak, exhibition, performance programme Installing the Voice, symposium, convened with Jelena Novak at TENT Rotterdam, V2_Lab for Unstable Media, and Operadagen Rotterdam festival 2017-18 The Trouble with Value, co-curated with Krzysztof Siatka Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL and Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven, NL 2016-17 Associate curator, Onomatopee Projects: Marjolijn Dijkman: That What Makes Us Human, solo exhibition and publication The Economy is Spinning, group exhibition and publication Eva Olthof: Return to Rightful Owner, solo exhibition i.c.w. Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven 2015-17 The Translation Trip - nomadic joint research trajectory with Sara Giannini 2016 Unfold, guest-curator, online publishing and archiving platform 2015 Curator, Onomatopee Projects (selected solo projects): Helen Cho: 21 Objects for Hesitation Tbilisi InSights: city [un]archived, exhibition and seminar Anna Bak: Wilderness Survival, exhibition and performance Maria Lalou: a spect, exhibition, performance and publication Elisabeth Penker: Split Representation Annee Grøtte Viken: It Had Something to Do With the Telling of Time Sarah van Lamsweerde: Paper is a Leaf that will Destroy Us in its Fall 2015 A Blind Man in His Garden, co-curator with Emma Panza LUMA foundation, Zürich, Switzerland 2015 Sarah van Lamsweerde: Paper is a Leaf that Will Destroy Us in Its Fall artistic advisor and executive producer, Veem house for performance, Amsterdam 2014 Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? co-curator, exhibition and public programme De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam 2013 Physical and Virtual Bodies, co-curator with Stephanie Seidel of Modern Art Arnhem, NL Solid Enough to be Inhabited, co-curator with Stephanie Seidel Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminklen, DE

1 2012 Associate Curator, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht: Theatre of Thought, Bonnefantenmuseum and Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht Nachtfahrt, Bonnefantenmuseum Roermond 2010-12 Curatorial Assistant, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht: Martin Visser, collector, designer, free spirit, Bonnefantenmuseum i.c.w. the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL becoming ahh, Bonnefantenmuseum i.c.w. the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht The Invisible Colour, Bonnefantenmuseum 2009-12 Curator and board member B32, independent art initiative, Maastricht

EDITED PUBLICATIONS

2021 Clementine Edwards: Material Kinship, contributing editor, Onomatopee (forthcoming) Singing Beyond Human, co-editor with Jelena Novak (forthcoming) 2020 The Trouble with Value, contributing editor, Onomatopee 2018 Marjolijn Dijkman: Radiant Matter, contributing editor, Onomatopee 2017 The Economy is Spinning, editor, Onomatopee Antonis Pittas: Road to Victory, co-editor, Mousse Publishing and Hordaland Kunstsenter 2016 Sarah van Lamsweerde, Paper Is a Leaf That Will Destroy Us in Its Fall, editor, Onomatopee 2014 Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? contributing editor, De Appel Arts Centre Amsterdam 2013 Solid Enough to be Inhabited, co-editor, Schloss Ringenberg 2012 Morning Prayer, contributing editor, Bonnefantenmuseum and

SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING

2020 ‘Notes on The Death of the Genius and Artistic Labour’, The Trouble with Value, Onomatopee ‘On the Absence of eth Body’, Nina Fránková: Hollow, Onomatopee text contribution in Plasticity of the Planet – On Environmental Challenge for Art and Its Institutions, edited by Magdalena Ziółkowska, Mousse Publishing and Ujazdowski CCA ‘It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry’, Z-files, Sculpture International Rotterdam text contribution, Sława Harasymowicz, artist book 2017 ‘The Phone Call’, Jan Hoeft: +4812, Verlag für moderne Kunst

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

2020 ‘Posthuman Convergences’, Utrecht University summer school (August 2020) 2018 Curatorial Residency, Fire Station Studios, Dublin, Ireland 2017 Helsinki International Curatorial Programme (HIAP/ HICP, Frame), Helsinki, Finland Curatorial Residency at ARC Bucharest, Romania Curatorial residency at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam 2016 ‘Young Curators Workshop’, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2015 ‘Benjamin in Palestine’, International Academy of Art, Ramallah, Palestine 2014 ‘Ringa - Migrating Art Academies laboratory’, Riga, Latvia 2013 Curatorial Residency at Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, Germany

2 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2020 International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT Harald Szeemann Grant 2019 Mondriaan Funds, Project Grant Intermediaries, curatorial research ‘Voice as Material’ 2017 Mondriaan Funds, Project Grant Intermediaries, curatorial research ‘The Value of Artistic Labour’ 2017 Mondriaan Funds, curator-in-residency grant, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam 2015 Pool Project, curatorial fellowship, LUMA Foundation, Zürich 2013 Mondriaan Funds, residency abroad grant, Schloss Ringenberg, DE 2013 Province , professional development grant

ADVISORY POSITIONS AND TUTORING EXPERIENCE

2020 External advisor, curator, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, class of Michael Stevenson Since 2018 Advisory board member, Shimmer, exhibition space, Rotterdam Founding member, Working group for fees and conditions of freelance curators and art workers, with Platform Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam Since 2014 Visiting tutor and exam committee member at various art academies: Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, MAFAD Maastricht, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, a.o. Since 2017 Jury member at various art prices: Drempelprijzen at Willem de Kooning Academie, Gilbert de Bontridderprijs at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Maastricht, a.o. 2012 Course Tutor, ‘Museum Meanings’, , Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Assistant Tutor, ‘Museum Curatorship’, Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences icw the Bonnefantenmuseum

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Native: Hungarian, Slovak Proficient: English, Czech Intermediate: Dutch, German

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