Contemporary art historian, editor, critic.

Various exhibition reviews, features, and interviews written for Metropolis M (2021-2023)

Since late 2021, I have been a regular contributor to both the freely accessible online platform and the printed magazine. Below is a series of links to select pieces I have written over the past years which are accessible online:

Originally in print, March 2023: Bodies in disarray – Christina Quarles & W.E.B. Du Bois

Feature, October 2022: In defense of making a boat that would never touch the water: Edward Clydesdale Thomson’s rivier, boot, stad in Dordrecht

Exhibition review, June 2022: “We are all bodies of water” – visiting Emotions are Oceans at Radius CCA

Exhibition review, March 2022: Distant childhood memories in dusty pinks and sandy yellows ­– Arturo Kameya’s Drylands at Dordrechts Museum

Exhibition review, March 2022: Mutter: An art platform alongside yet distinct from Amsterdam’s art scene

Exhibition review, February 2022: Colonial trauma up close and at length: Jasmine Thomas-Girvan at Kunstinstituut Melly

Interview, January 2022: How can we make sense of that which cannot be sensed? – in conversation with artists Sami Hammana and Yazan Khalili

Feature, January 2022: The Real (E)State: On the Fate of Artistic and Cultural Spaces in the City

Feature, January 2022: In Europe: Malta – How artists redefine the Maltese cultural heritage

Feature, November 2021: Pak Mokum Terug (Taking Amsterdam Back) – Activists and  Artists demonstrate the need of alternative ways of living

Interview, November 2021: Talking to Paul Goodwin about the exhibition ‘W.E.B. Du Bois – Charting Black Lives’

Exhibition review, October 2021: And the rest is silence: Patricia Kaersenhout at Het Hem

Reviews of graduation shows:

Sandberg Instituut, 2021

Sandberg Instituut & Rietveld Academie, 2021

Willem de Kooning Academie, 2021