Thomas Berghuis

Thomas Jakob Berghuis (born Amsterdam, April 2, 1973) is a curator, art historian, and former museum director based in Leiden, Netherlands. From 2013-2015 Berghuis was the Robert H. N. Ho Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.[1]

Prior to his work at the Guggenheim from 2008-2013 Berghuis worked as a Lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. Following his work at the Guggenheim, in May 2015, 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.[2]

Berghuis is a lecturer in art history with the University of Amsterdam,[3] a Board Member of Framer Framed - a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam;[4] and a Principal Fellow (Honorary) with the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne, Australia.[5] Berghuis is a Member of AICA, Australia; a Member of ICOM-US; 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, USA.[6]

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;[7] Suspended Histories at Museum Van Loon, 2012-2014;[8] Wang Jianwei: Time Temple at the Guggenheim Museum in New York;[9] and Crossing the Tide, the Tuvalu Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale.[10]

Berghuis is an editorial board member of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect, UK);[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. He is the author of Performance Art in China (Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2006).[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Guggenheim Announces Major Initiative to Advance Contemporary Chinese Art". 20 March 2013.
  2. ↑ The New York Times (2016). Indonesia’s First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017. [online] Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/arts/international/indonesia-modern-art-museum.html .
  3. ↑ Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "dr. T.J. (Thomas) Berghuis - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl.
  4. ↑ "Thomas Berghuis – Framer Framed".
  5. ↑ "Our staff — School of Culture and Communication - Faculty of Arts". Faculty of Arts. 10 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "2016 GMLC Participants". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum.
  7. ↑ "EDGE OF ELSEWHERE, SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2012 - 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art". 14 January 2012.
  8. ↑ "Suspended Histories". universes.art.
  9. ↑ "Wang Jianwei: Time Temple". 14 April 2014.
  10. ↑ "Crossing the Tide". www.domusweb.it.
  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 – via Google Books.
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