Thomas Berghuis

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Thomas Jakob Berghuis is a curator, art historian, and former museum director based in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Career

From 2008 to 2013 Berghuis worked as a lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. [1] From 2013 to May 2015 he was the Robert H. N. Ho Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, [2] after which he Berghuis moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to become the first director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), launched in January 2016. [1]

Berghuis has been a lecturer in art history with the University of Amsterdam; [3] [ when? ] a Board Member of Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam; [4] and an honorary principal fellow with the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne, Australia. [5] [ when? ]

Berghuis has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including Edge of Elsewhere (2010–2012) with the Sydney Festival at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Campbelltown Arts Centre, co-curated with Lisa Havilah and Aaron Seeto; [6] Suspended Histories at Museum Van Loon, 2012–2014; [7] Wang Jianwei: Time Temple at the Guggenheim; [8] and Crossing the Tide, the Tuvalu Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale. [9]

Other roles

Berghuis is a Member of AICA, Australia;[ further explanation needed ] a Member of ICOM-US;[ further explanation needed ] and in 2016 Berghuis was nominated as a participant and member of the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium (GMLC), hosted by the director's office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [10]

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art ; [11] and diˈvan | A Journal of Accounts (UNSW Press, Australia). [12] His writings have been published in Third Text ; Theory, Culture, and Society ; Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique ; and the Journal of Visual Art Practice .[ citation needed ]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 Qin, Amy (25 January 2016). "Indonesia's First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Guggenheim Announces Major Initiative to Advance Contemporary Chinese Art". 20 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "dr. T.J. (Thomas) Berghuis - University of Amsterdam". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Thomas Berghuis". Framer Framed (in Dutch). 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "Our staff — School of Culture and Communication - Faculty of Arts". Faculty of Arts. 10 January 2018. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "EDGE OF ELSEWHERE, SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2012 - 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art". 14 January 2012.
  7. ↑ "Suspended Histories". universes.art.
  8. ↑ "Wang Jianwei: Time Temple". 14 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Crossing the Tide". www.domusweb.it.
  10. ↑ "2016 GMLC Participants". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum.
  11. ↑ "Intellect Ltd". www.intellectbooks.co.uk.
  12. ↑ "Di'van Journal - UNSW Art & Design". www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au.
  13. ↑ Berghuis, Thomas J. (14 January 2018). Performance Art in China. Timezone 8 Limited. ISBN   9789889926595 – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Berghuis, T.J.; Museum Van Loon (2013). Suspended Histories. Museum Van Loon. ISBN   978-90-803305-0-4 . Retrieved 18 September 2021.
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