Laurens Otto
laurens.pc.otto[at]gmail[dot]com

curator, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium.

editor-in-chief, RESOLUTION Magazine.

Previously:

What Stories Want, AAIR & Extra City, Antwerp, 2021.

curator, Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands, 2019 - 2020.

managing editor, Critique in Practice. Renzo Martens' Episode III: Enjoy Poverty, Sternberg Press, 2019.

associate curator, Institute for Human Activities, Lusanga, DR Congo, 2016 - 2019.

assistant curator, Council, Paris, France, 2015 - 2016.


Recent texts (selection):

'The Exhibition Format as a Vector for Institutional Change,' Everything is New, ed. Nikolay Alutin, De Appel, 2020.

Culture as Industry as Culture, ed. Timo Demollin, 2020.

'This Time It's Personal: Politics as an Expansion of the Self,' The Name of the Author, Sandberg Instituut, 2018.

'De Terugkeer van het Portret. Being: New Photography in het MoMA,' De Witte Raaf 195, 2018.

'Rana Hamadeh: On the Threshold of the Law' & 'Saskia Noor van Imhoff: Disorganising Order,' Prix de Rome 2017, NAI Publishers, 2017.


Recent lectures and panel discussions:

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

WIELS, Brussels

Yale School of Art, New Haven

Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), Paris

Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Museum De Pont, Tilburg