/////////////////// Gabriëlle Schleijpen //////////////////
DAI///////////////// course director //////////////////////
Gabriëlle Schleijpen was born in 1957 in a small mining village in the most southern part of the Netherlands. She was trained as an artist at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and De Ateliers (then based in Haarlem, now in Amsterdam).
Over the years she has been active at times as a bookseller, a free lance journalist, an artist, a lecturer in several Dutch art schools and as a co-ordinator for the Rietveld Academie. She was an expat for 5 years, living and working in Belgium, France and Portugal and is now based both in Amsterdam and in Enschede.
In 2000 she gave up her private studio work in order to dedicate herself completely to art education and the curation of international projects. Since 2000, as the Head of the Studium Generale of the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam she designed and implemented a completely new structure for the general lecture programme and organised several hundreds of lectures and seminars. From 2002 onward she combines this part time job in Amsterdam with a position as the Course director of the Dutch Art Institute (master programme, ArtEZ institute of the Arts )in Enschede. She designs and manages the curriculum of this postgraduate course for young artists.
In the context of her two jobs she has been initiating trans national artistic research projects. Studium Generale Rietveld excursions have brought many young artists and intellectuals to Egypt (2002), Lebanon (2003), Syria (2003), Iran (2005), Libya (2006), Armenia & Azerbaijan (2007).
For the Dutch Art Institute she has hold final responsibility for collaborative projects with partners in China (2004), India (2005) and Turkey (2005).
Together with Alite Thijsen and Lucy Cotter she is co-curator of the ongoing trans national research project Here as the Centre of the World (2006-2008) that brings together artists from Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei. Archis foundation will publish a book on this project in 2008.
She is also part of the editorial team of The Old Brand New together with Frédérique Bergholtz, Nicole Beutler, Ann Demeester, Simon Dove and Marijke Hoogenboom (see www.theoldbrandnew.nl)
[email protected]
(September 2007)
DAI///////////////// course director //////////////////////
Gabriëlle Schleijpen was born in 1957 in a small mining village in the most southern part of the Netherlands. She was trained as an artist at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and De Ateliers (then based in Haarlem, now in Amsterdam).
Over the years she has been active at times as a bookseller, a free lance journalist, an artist, a lecturer in several Dutch art schools and as a co-ordinator for the Rietveld Academie. She was an expat for 5 years, living and working in Belgium, France and Portugal and is now based both in Amsterdam and in Enschede.
In 2000 she gave up her private studio work in order to dedicate herself completely to art education and the curation of international projects. Since 2000, as the Head of the Studium Generale of the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam she designed and implemented a completely new structure for the general lecture programme and organised several hundreds of lectures and seminars. From 2002 onward she combines this part time job in Amsterdam with a position as the Course director of the Dutch Art Institute (master programme, ArtEZ institute of the Arts )in Enschede. She designs and manages the curriculum of this postgraduate course for young artists.
In the context of her two jobs she has been initiating trans national artistic research projects. Studium Generale Rietveld excursions have brought many young artists and intellectuals to Egypt (2002), Lebanon (2003), Syria (2003), Iran (2005), Libya (2006), Armenia & Azerbaijan (2007).
For the Dutch Art Institute she has hold final responsibility for collaborative projects with partners in China (2004), India (2005) and Turkey (2005).
Together with Alite Thijsen and Lucy Cotter she is co-curator of the ongoing trans national research project Here as the Centre of the World (2006-2008) that brings together artists from Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei. Archis foundation will publish a book on this project in 2008.
She is also part of the editorial team of The Old Brand New together with Frédérique Bergholtz, Nicole Beutler, Ann Demeester, Simon Dove and Marijke Hoogenboom (see www.theoldbrandnew.nl)
[email protected]
(September 2007)