1. —Team

Charles Esche

curator, author, director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and co-director of Afterall Journal and Books, London

Charles Esche (born 1962) is a curator, writer, director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-director of Afterall Journal and Books based at Central St.Martins College of Art and Design, London. Since 2000, Esche has (co)-curated numerous international exhibitions including (selection): An Idea for Living – Realism and Reality in Contemporary Slovenian Art, U3 – 6th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (2010); Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2008–2009); Once is Nothing (co-organized with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht), Brussels Biennale 1, Brussels, 2008; Becoming Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007–2008; Forms of Resistance, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007; Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah, 2007; 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2005; the project Cork Caucus, Cork, 2005; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2002; and Amateur: Variable Research Initiatives, Gothenburg, 2000. He is co-founder of Afterall Journal and Books, based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London and CalArts, Los Angeles. In addition to co-editing (with Maria Hlavajova and Rosi Braidotti) the critical reader Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example (2007), Esche has written for numerous catalogs and magazines and published an edited volume of his writings in Turkish and English, Modest Proposals (2005). Esche lives and works in Eindhoven and Edinburgh.