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English spoken

Krist Gruijthuijsen is the artistic director for the Grazer Kunstverein. He is a curator, writer, publisher, and course director of the MA Fine Arts Department at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. As co-founding director of Kunstverein in Amsterdam, he has organized exhibitions, events, and publications of o.a. Ian Wilson, Ben Kinmont, Dennis Cooper, Ray Johnson, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Adam Pendleton, Simon Martin, Dexter Sinister, Robert Wilhite, Richard Kostelanetz, Nedko Solakov, and Raimundas Malasauskas. Previous exhibitions and projects have been presented at a.o. Manifesta 7 (Italy); Platform Garanti (Istanbul); Artists Space (New York); Extra City (Antwerp); Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade); Swiss Institute (New York); Anthology Film Archives (New York); A Gentil Carioca/ Galeria Vermelho (Rio de Janeiro/ Sao Paulo); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven); Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht); and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

Gruijthuijsen has (co-) produced many publications, amongst others: The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists + The Addition (JRP Ringier), We all Laughed at Christopher Columbus (Revolver), Novella (not yet another story) (Revolver), Ben Kinmont: Prospectus, works from 1989–2011 (JRP Ringier), Paper Exhibition: Selected Writings of Raimundas Malausaskas (Sternberg Press), and several others under the umbrella of ‘Kunstverein Publishing.’

About Extra Academy:

‘Extra Academy’ is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen. It involves close collaboration with a network of guests and students.

‘Extra Academy’ is a structural service ‘in progress’, offering different tools and trajectories as a supplement to – or disturbance of – academic models and reflexes. Its open program of lectures, performances, workshops, exhibitions and screenings is designed to trigger alternative questions about modes of knowledge production, of research and practice. It probes gaps and unexpected solutions, teasing out the point where ideas materialise, where they are confronted with their palpable consequences. It believes that theory is not an allegory of practice.

‘Extra Academy’ listens, looks, asks and wonders. It collects and distributes conversations, it inquires about the educational turn in the arts and about the turn that will dislodge it, while providing time and space for a plasticity of ideas to manifest themselves.

Language English