Wietske Maas

Background

About Wietske Maas

My curriculum includes international artistic, curatorial and editorial projects since Currently based in Amsterdam and Berlin, I combine artistic research with work as curator of Research and Publications at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Having, over the years, worked at this organization in different curatorial and editing/research capacities. Between 2008–2018 I worked as curator for the European Cultural Foundation. Recent co-edited publications include Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent (with Maria Hlavajova, MIT Press 2019) and Courageous Citizens: How Culture Contributes to Social Change (with Bas Lafleur and Susanne Mors, Valiz, 2018), and research and managing editor for FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989 (edited with Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh, MIT Press, 2016). Forthcoming is Fragments of Repair (with Kader Attia and Maria Hlavajova, MIT Press, 2023). In my artistic practice/research/writing I have focused on political ecology and the urban sphere as a site of transformative assembly. I have developed and participated in projects in various international contexts and publishing platforms and anthologies. In 2007 (together with Matteo Pasquinelli) I developed a project called urbanibalism which explores the metabolisms of a city. Tapping into unexpected food chains to make new public recipes and conviviums, urbanibalism ferments new relations between people, cultures, histories and ecologies alive within a metropolis.