Charles Ash

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Charles Esche (* 1962 in Harrogate , England ) is a British museum director and art theorist.

life and work

Charles Esche comes from a German working class family. From 1985 to 1988 he studied art history (medieval and renaissance research) at the University of Manchester with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and from 1989 to 1990 in museology with a Master of Arts (MA) degree .

He began his curatorial career from 1993 to 1997 at the Tramway Art Center in Glasgow . For the exhibition Trust in 1995 he invited artists to work with him to select international artists in order to "... create an atmosphere of trust between artists and the public". Important artists were selected, some of whom were exhibiting in Scotland for the first time, such as Cady Noland , Stan Douglas and Tony Oursler . From 1997 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh and the initiator of the proto-academy , a free art school. From 2000 to 2004 he headed the Rooseum , Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, Sweden .

In 1998 he was, along with Mark Lewis, the founding editor of the University of Chicago Press art magazine Afterall , of which he is the author today. Esche was co-curator of the Gwangju Biennale in 2002 and the Istanbul Biennale in 2005 .

Since 2004 he has been director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven . In 2008/2010 he organized the two-year exhibition series Play van Abbe , in which he presented exhibition politics and the role of the museum in the 21st century.

In 2010 he founded the association L'Internationale together with six other European museums. In 2014 he was co-curator of the 31st São Paulo Biennale and 2015 Jakarta Biennale 2015. Escher is Professor of Contemporary Art and Exhibition Practice at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He was a member of the search committee for Documenta 15 in Kassel.

Prices

  • 2014: Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, Bard College , Annandale-on-Hudson
  • 2013: The Minimum Prize of the Pistoletto Foundation, Biella
  • 2012: European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award, Amsterdam

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucie Kolb, Gabriel Flückiger: We were learning by doing. An interview with Charles Esche. In: OnCurating, Issue 21: (New) Institution (alism) , 2014, pp. 24–28.
  2. ↑ What Now? 2014 - Collaboration & Collectivity . Art in General website.
  3. ↑ Internet site: Art project Former West
  4. ↑ L'Internationale website
personal data
SURNAME Ash, charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art theorist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrogate