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Paul Faber is Africa-curator of the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam (a large museum on world culture, www.kit.nl).

He studied art history in Amsterdam, taught art history at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam & the University of Amsterdam. Worked in museums on world culture since 1986, primarily as exhibitionmaker and publicist, on a large variety of topics, including international contemporary art.

Main projects/publications:
- Moderne kunst uit Afrika (1980)
- Art from another world (1988)
- Twenty years of visual art in Suriname, 1975-1995 (1995)
- Family stories from South Africa (2002)
- The dramatic history of Congo as painted by Thsibumba Kanda Matulu (2004).

He does not see himself as an art critic, or a specialist on contemporary art. He just has a broad interest in visual arts, old and new, high and low, and how they are imbedded in society, in what art communicates, and can communicate between life/the artist/the spectator.

(september 2004)