Kris Dittel

I work as an independent curator, editor and occasional writer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. My practice is driven by long-term research projects that materialize in various forms: exhibitions, publications, public events, performances, texts, talks, and more. I have an academic background in both art theory and economics and social sciences, which influences the way I contextualize and situate my practice.

At present I’m co-editing the publication Unruly Kinships with Aneta Rostkowska (Temporary Gallery CCA, 2024), and Life with Fifi, a children’s book with Angelica Falkeling. My previously edited publications include Spatial Folders: Extraction and Extractivism, co-edited with Golnar Abbassi (MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, 2023); The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Clementine Edwards (Onomatopee, 2022), The Trouble with Value: Art and Its Modes of Valuation (Onomatopee, 2020), Marjolijn Dijkman: Radiant Matter (Onomatopee, 2018), among others.

Besides my curatorial and editorial work, I serve as guest tutor at various art academies in the Netherlands, such as at the Master Industrial Design at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Nederlandse Filmacademie in Amsterdam. In a pedagogical context my writing workshops focus on autotheoretical and autofictional writing, and the politics of citations.

With Eloise Sweetman I co-host I Hope This Message Finds You Well, a podcast on curating. The most recent, third season of the podcast focuses on the topic of the exhibition – as a format, medium and device – while examining its relevance, possibilities and limitations today.