Henk SlagerLecturer Critical Studies
Henk Slager studied philosophy, art history and general literature at both the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam’s Free University. In 1989, he earned a Ph.D. (University of Amsterdam) writing an art philosophical thesis entitled Formalistic Temperament. From 1989 to 1993, he was involved in a post-doc project researching the foundations of art and cultural science for Brussels’ Free University. Since 1994 Henk Slager has been tutor at the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam. From 1998-2004, he was a board member (Ass. Secretary General) of the International Association of Aesthetics and professor of Art Theory at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK, Antwerp).
As a curator Henk Slager initiated numerous projects on the interface art and research, such as Flash Cube (Leeum, Seoul, 2007), Translocalmotion (7th Shanghai Biennale, 2008) and Nameless Science (Apexart, New York 2009).
Currently Henk Slager is Dean of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (MaHKU) and its professor of Artistic Research. He is on the board of Earn (European Artistic Research Network) and General Editor of MaHKUzine (Journal of Artistic Research).
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