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Thomas Jakob Berghuis is a curator, art historian, and former museum director based in Leiden, Netherlands.

Career

From 2008 to 2013 Berghuis worked as a lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney.[1] From 2013 to May 2015 he was the Robert H. N. Ho Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City,[2] after which he Berghuis moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to become the first director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), launched in January 2016.[1]

Berghuis has been a lecturer in art history with the University of Amsterdam;[3][when?] a Board Member of Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam;[4] and an honorary principal fellow with the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne, Australia.[5][when?]

Berghuis has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including Edge of Elsewhere (2010–2012) with the Sydney Festival at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Campbelltown Arts Centre, co-curated with Lisa Havilah and Aaron Seeto;[6] Suspended Histories at Museum Van Loon, 2012–2014;[7] Wang Jianwei: Time Temple at the Guggenheim;[8] and Crossing the Tide, the Tuvalu Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale.[9]

Other roles

Berghuis is a Member of AICA, Australia;[further explanation needed] a Member of ICOM-US;[further explanation needed] and in 2016 Berghuis was nominated as a participant and member of the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium (GMLC), hosted by the director's office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[10]

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art;[11] and diˈvan | A Journal of Accounts (UNSW Press, Australia).[12] His writings have been published in Third Text; Theory, Culture, and Society; Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique; and the Journal of Visual Art Practice.[citation needed]

Selected publications

  • Performance Art in China (2006)[13]
  • Suspended Histories (2013)[14]

References

  1. ^ a b Qin, Amy (25 January 2016). "Indonesia's First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Guggenheim Announces Major Initiative to Advance Contemporary Chinese Art". 20 March 2013.
  3. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "dr. T.J. (Thomas) Berghuis - University of Amsterdam". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Thomas Berghuis". Framer Framed (in Dutch). 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Our staff — School of Culture and Communication - Faculty of Arts". Faculty of Arts. 10 January 2018. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  6. ^ "EDGE OF ELSEWHERE, SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2012 - 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art". 14 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Suspended Histories". universes.art.
  8. ^ "Wang Jianwei: Time Temple". 14 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Crossing the Tide". www.domusweb.it.
  10. ^ "2016 GMLC Participants". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum.
  11. ^ "Intellect Ltd". www.intellectbooks.co.uk.
  12. ^ "Di'van Journal - UNSW Art & Design". www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au.
  13. ^ Berghuis, Thomas J. (14 January 2018). Performance Art in China. Timezone 8 Limited. ISBN 9789889926595 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Berghuis, T.J.; Museum Van Loon (2013). Suspended Histories. Museum Van Loon. ISBN 978-90-803305-0-4. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
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