2010 Recipients
Curator Jelle Bouwhuis
Jelle Bouwhuis was born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After working as an art critic and writer, Bouwhuis became communications officer at both the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Concurrently he held teaching positions at the Utrecht University and the Arnhem Art Academy.
At the Stedelijk Museum he became curator in January 2006 where he is still responsible for the programme of exhibitions, publications, residencies and other activities of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA – www.smba.nl), a project space in the city centre. A major collaborative, durable project of SMBA in 2009 / 2010 will be Imagining Africa. Bouwhuis was also co-editor of various publications such as Sculpture in Rotterdam (2001); Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Blind Spots (2007) and the upcoming collection of essays Now is the Time – Art & Theory in the 21st Century (2009).
Bouwhuis is also advisor of Visual Art and Design for his home city, Utrecht.
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