Ine Gevers
Ine Gevers is curator, writer and activist. In 2007 she founded the Niet Normaal Foundation, with the purpose of mounting artistic campaigns concerning socially relevant themes and aimed at broad audiences. The independant organisation has its roots in the 1990's, when artistic director Ine Gevers and board chair Hester Alberdingk Thijm curated Ik + de Ander. Art and the Human Condition in 1994. Ik + de Ander is renowned as the Netherlands’ first ‘engaged’ art exhibition and received international critical acclaim and recognition.
Internationally credited exhibitions and publications are: Niet Normaal. Difference on Display, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 2009/10 www.nietnormaal.nl. Niet Normaal travelled to Berlin in 2011, will open in Liverpool July 2012, and will be part of the Olympic Games Cultural Program this summer. Encountering the Culture of the Norm, De Geuzen, Amsterdam, 2000; Place, Position, Presentation, Public, Maastricht, 1992, and Cultural Identity: Fiction or Necessity, Maastricht, 1990. Currently she prepares the major art exhibition Yes Naturally. How art saves the world, a collaboration of Foundation Niet Normaal with the Municipal Museum The Hague. Yes Naturally will open its doors for the public from March until August 2013. www.ja-natuurlijk.com
Ine Gevers published several books and articles a.o. Normality on Prescription, Niet Normaal / Difference on Display, ed. Ine Gevers, NAi Publishers, 2009; Images that demand consummation, in Documentary Now!, 2005, NAi Publishers; Breaking into the System, The Multiple Ethics of Contemporary Art Practice, 2004; The Cultural Arena of Tomorrow, Unlimited.nl-2, De Appel, 2000; Curating: Stereotyping the Other or Risking one’s own Subjectivity, Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics, ed. Ine Gevers, SUN, 1997; Curating - the Art of creating contexts, Conversation Pieces, Jan van Eyck Academy, 1995; Artists for Life, I + the Other. Contemporary art exhibition on the Human Condition, ed. Ine Gevers, Amsterdam, 1994; Place, Position, Presentation, Public, ed. Ine Gevers, Jan van Eyck Academy, 1992; Cultural Identity: Fiction or Necessity, ed. Ine Gevers, Third Text, Special (1992); The threatened position of the individual Artist, catalogue Jan van Eyck at the Krabbedans, Eindhoven (1990). www.inegevers.net.
