Never There Yet
Possibility and the Limits of Institutional Curating
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
Twenty-five years inside European art institutions to ask what lies beyond their limits.
Where does possibility lie in curating today? Charles Esche has spent twenty-five years inside European art institutions asking that question—as a museum director and curator of biennials, and now from outside institutional forms altogether.
In Never There Yet, Esche traces the changing locations of curatorial possibility across a quarter century of cultural and political transfor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911745037 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1911745034 |
| Author: | Charles Esche |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 114mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Sternberg Press / Thoughts on Curating |
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Charles Esche
Charles Esche is a writer and curator based in Amsterdam. He is a member of the L’Internationale Association and is developing the Three Ashes Foundation on land near Bucharest, Romania. He is a professor at University of the Arts London and an adviser at Jan van Eyck Academie. He was director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (2004-24) and of Rooseum in Malmö (2000-2004).
His curatorial projects include the Jakarta Biennale (2015), the São Paulo Bienal (2014), the RIWAQ Biennale in Palestine (2007 and 2009), the Istanbul Biennial (2005), and the Gwangju Biennale (2002). He is developing the concept of “demodernising” as a methodology for Western Europeans to approach decolonial thinking.
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