Huib Haye Van der Werf

Born 1976 in Brussels, Belgium
Resident of Miami, Florida (1979-1994)
Lives in The Netherlands

Program YCI 2007 participant

EDUCATION

CURATORIAL TRAINING PROGRAM

International master class for curators at De Appel, center for contemporary art, Amsterdam
September 2004 - May 2005
Exhibition Radiodays (May 2005) see www.radiodays.org

BACHELORS/ MASTERS DEGREE ART HISTORY

University of Amsterdam
Thesis ‘The artist, the curator and the Documenta: changes since 1972’
M.A. diploma 2004

BACHELORS DEGREE FINE ARTS

Royal academy of fine arts, The Hague
painting/drawing
Diploma 1998

WORK

DUTCH MINISTRY VROM – ATELIER RIJKSBOUWMEESTER

Senior government advisor on visual arts, The Hague
May 2005 - present

KENNISGROEP BEELDENDE KUNST ZUIDAS

Advisor to think-tank for visual arts on the Zuidas, Amsterdam
January 2003 – present

STICHTING OUTLINE

Art initiative, Amsterdam
Advisor & curator
June 2003 - July 2004

THE HTV NEWS

Bimonthly non glossy for art, Amsterdam
Editor/writer
April 2003 - June 2004

SIMULACRUM

Art and culture magazine, Amsterdam
Editor/writer
August 2002 - August 2003

WARA DECORATIES

art procurement, IJmuiden
Project Manager (Nederland, Dubai, Israel, Parijs)
April 1999 – April 2000

1646
Art initiative, Den Haag
Artistic Director
April 1998 – May 1999

EXTRA

FONDS BKVB
Member of Basis Stipend committee
July 2006 - present

    
Dutch German curatorial exchange project
May 2005 - February 2007

NOISE OF COINCIDENCE
Art initiative (international exchange project)
December 2001 – January 2003

VARIOUS

- Study excursion to U.S.A. September 2007 ‘Landscape / Infrastructure’ with Fonds BKVB
- Lecture on art in public space for Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, April 2007
- ‘The List’ in collaboration with Banu Cennetoglu see www.the-list.info; a project in the public space of Amsterdam, March 2007
- Graffiti Research Lab for Art Rotterdam, February 2007
- Nathalie Bruys closing act for 200 years Atelier Rijksbouwmeester at the Ministry of Finance, Den Haag, November 2006

VARIOUS TEXTS

- ‘Eyes wide shut’ PR Audio Guide / TEAM TCHM (2007)
- ‘Gijs Pape & Jeroen van Bergen’ Encount #04 (2007)
- ‘Collapsioble Sublet’ text for Sanja Medic exposition at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, China (November 2006)
- ‘Adorno instead of Adidas’ TAGMAG No. 03 (2006)
- Catalogue text ‘Sociale Werken’ on the work of Gabriel Lester for the Ministry of Social Affairs (2006)
- ‘One and One and One is One’(in collaboration with James Beckett & Jeremiah Day), Radiodays: What happens when viewers become listeners, ed. One Star Press (2006)
- Catalogue text for Peter Vos ‘Zenith’ at Aschenbach & Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam (2005)
- Catalogue text for Bojan Fajfri, at Galerie Van Laere, Antwerpen (2005)
- ‘Invisible Script (a Letter to Morel)’, Metropolis M (Nr. 4 August/September 2005)
- ‘Radiodays: An Enquiry into Aural Space’, OPEN (No. 9 2005)

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