Curator

      Born 1960. Studied philosophy, art history and general literature at both the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam’s Free University. In 1989, he earned a Ph.D. (University of Amsterdam) writing an art philosophical thesis entitled Fomalistic Temperament. From 1989 to 1993, he was involved in a post-doc project researching the foundations of art and cultural science for Brussels’ Free University. In 1993 he established the Global Vernunft Foundation, which organizes and executes projects (exhibitions, symposia, graduate teaching programs, publications) concerning the interface of philosophy and contemporary art. Since 1994 Henk Slager has been tutor at the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam. From 1998-2004, he was a board member (Ass. Secretary General) of the International Association of Aesthetics and professor of Art Theory at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK, Antwerp). Currently Henk Slager is dean of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (MaHKU) and its professor of Artistic Research. He is on the board of Earn (European Network for Artistic Research).

      Recent curatorial projects include: Demirrorized Zone (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2003), Busan Biennial (curator Theory Program, 2004), The Intermedial Zone (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2005), DARE (Dutch Artistic Research Event, several locations, Utrecht 2006), Shelter 07 (The Freedom of Public Art in the Cover of Urban Space, Harderwijk 2007), Flash Cube (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2007).

 Research-based Practices