In 2015 the tutorial team of the Curatorial Programme at de Appel arts centre will be expanded with three new tutors.
Thomas Boutoux (1975) is a curator, writer, and publisher. He is a Founding Member and, since 2007, Co-Director of the art space castillo/corrales in Paris. Together with the other members of castillo/corrales he runs the imprint Paraguay Press, which publishes artist books, catalogues and essays, as well as the periodicals The Social Life of the Book, and castillo/corrales today.
Since 2010, he has taught in the MA programme of the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, France. He sits on the advisory board of institutions such as Yale Union in Portland OR, and Council, Paris.
Chus Martínez (1972) has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently the head of the Institute of Art of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel. She was previously the Chief Curator at El Museo Del Barrio, New York. For dOCUMENTA (13) she was Head of Department. Her earlier positions include Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona (2008 to 2011), Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005–08) and Artistic Director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2002–05). For the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2005) Martínez curated the National Pavilion of Cyprus.
Beatrix Ruf (1960) is director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She worked as a freelance curator, choreographer and critic after completing studies in Psychology, Ethnology and Art and Cultural Sciences at the University of Zürich, and a study at the Conservatory of Vienna. She served as Curator at the Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, from 1994-1998, and was Director of the Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, from 1998-2001. From 2001-14 Ruf was Director of Kunsthalle Zürich. In 2006 Ruf was the Curator of the third edition of the Tate Triennial in London, and in 2008 Co-Curator of the Yokohama Triennial.
The other members of the tutorial team of the Curatorial Programme are Floris Alkemade, Lorenzo Benedetti, Liesbeth Bik, Charles Esche, Elena Filpovic, Annie Fletcher, Henk Slager, Lisette Smits, Jan Verwoert and Barbara Visser.
The expansion of the tutorial team is one of the outcomes of a three-year research programme (2014-16) that aims to redefine and further develop the Curatorial Programme. This project is supported by the AMMODO Foundation. For more information, please contact Guus van Engelshoven, Curator Public Programme, Research & Publications.
