Charles Esche
Charles Esche is the former director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2004-2024) where he recently co-curated Soils, an exhibition about art, material and belonging. He is a professor of contemporary art and curating at University of the Arts, London and an advisor at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Among other international exhibitions, he has co-curated The Meeting That Never Was, MO Museum, Vilnius, 2022; Power and Other Things, Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels 2017; Art Turns, Word Turns, Museum MACAN, Jakarta 2017; Jakarta Biennale 2015; How to Talk about Things that don’t Exist – 31st Sao Paulo Bienal 2014; Ideal for Living, U3 Triennale, Ljubljana 2011; RIWAQ Biennale, Palestine, 2007 and 2009; Istanbul Biennale, 2005 and Gwangju Biennale, 2002. His latest publication is Art and Its Worlds, Afterall and Koenig Press, 2021 and he is writing a book on Demodern Thinking with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti to be published by Duke University Press in 2025.
Esche is co-convenor of School of Common Knowledge with Zdenka Badovinac and Manolo Borja-Villel.
He received the 2012 Princess Margriet Award and the 2014 CCS Bard College Prize for Curatorial Excellence. (2024)
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