Thank you for being here. My name is Kim Knoppers. Next to many other things in life I am an art historian working as a writer, lecturer and curator. I am based in Selçuk, Turkey where I immerse myself in the flora and fauna of the ancient land- and seascape of ancient Ephesus as often as possible 🌿🌊🐢🌍💫. My other home is in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Currently I am working on several projects in Greece, Albania, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey.
Between 2011 and 2021 I worked as a curator at Foam, photography museum in Amsterdam at the intersection of photography and disciplines like sculpture, video, painting and performance. In addition to contemporary photography, I also studied the origin of the medium in several exhibitions and essays. Since 2005 I have been collaborating with many cultural institutions, NGO’s and artists as Kim Knoppers Cultural Projects. I started my career as a curator for De Beyerd, center for modern and contemporary art in Breda, The Netherlands.
I appreciate writing because the act of it helps to see things more clearly. It is also a tool that allows me to explore my enormous curiosity. My style is characterized by an essayistic but associative tone of voice. Over the years I contributed to many exhibition cahiers, catalogs and artist books, and to magazines such as Foam Magazine, Camera Austria, Unseen Magazine and Aperture Magazine. I am a lecturer at MA Photography at ECAL in Lausanne where I initiated and developed the course Do Not Disturb— Curating in Progress.
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