Christel Vesters (1972)

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Christel Vesters (Netherlands, 1972) is a curator, writer and teacher based in Amsterdam. She studied art history and curating in Amsterdam, New York and London and graduated cum laude from the University of Amsterdam with an MA in Art History. Vesters has an established career in art criticism and curating. She has curated numerous exhibitions and discursive projects, including the successful lecture series and publication Now is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century (2009). In addition, Vesters is curator of the long-term research project Unfinished Systems of Non—Knowledge, which focuses on the power of art to evoke other ways of thinking. Vesters regularly contributes to various international art magazines and art publications, including Afterall, FlashArt and MetropolisM, and the magazines De Groene Amsterdammer and De Gids. In 2014 she was the MondriaanFund curator-in-residence at CCS Bard, New York, where she divided her time between research and teaching.