木瓜福利影视

About

I am an art historian and critic currently working as a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, the Netherlands. My current book project is titled 鈥楩red Carasso and the Antifascist Imagination: Art, Exile, and Italian Sculpture in the Low Countries.'

More broadly, my research deals with art and social challenges in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular, I focus on artistic and curatorial practices dealing with political ideologies, national identities, (forced) migration, self-representation, and exhibition histories. Most recently, I have refocused my scholarly outlook to artists who migrated to Ireland from the 1950s onwards. I also look at curatorial practices on the island since 1991, which marked the foundation of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin. Special attention is devoted to the practice of curator Paul O'Neill.

Over the past several years, I have served as a Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) and the Dutch 木瓜福利影视 Institute for Art History in Florence (NIKI). In 2024, I was reinvited to the KNIR to teach a newly designed course on artists in residence in Rome since the early modern period, together with Dr Laura Overpelt. In collaboration with curator Melle van Maanen (Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam), I am the curator of the exhibition 'Liga Nieuw Beelden: Samenwerken voorbij Cobra en Zero' at Atelier Volten in Amsterdam, planned to open in the Spring of 2026.