Iris Sikking | 14.05.2016

View of the Poppy: Trails of Afghan Heroin exhibition in Dom Słowa Polskiego, photo by Michał Przeździk

MASTERS SERIES meeting (EN)

Iris Sikking (1968, Amsterdam) is an independent curator and researcher based in Amsterdam. Since completing a master’s degree in Photographic Studies at Leiden University, she has worked on monographic and thematic exhibitions, including documentary and video art projects, in the Netherlands and abroad. The group exhibition BABY. Picturing the Ideal Human 1840–now, compiled for the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam (2008) and taken to the British National Media Museum (2009), included the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, Nan Goldin, Rineke Dijkstra, and Boris Mikhailov. The project ANGRY, Young and Radical (NFM, 2011), on the representation of the radical, featured work by Johan Grimonprez, Joel Sternfeld, Ad van Denderen and Willy Doherty. Sikking recently curated two exhibitions for Jeffrey Silverthorne and Yann Mingard at Fotomuseum Antwerp. She was co-initiator and organizer of the PhotoStories conference series on digital storytelling in the Netherlands in 2011 and 2015. 

Sikking is a lecturer in the Film and Photography department at AKV|St.Joost (Breda, NL). For five years she served as a board member at Paradox (Edam, NL). Before she became a curator, she was a film editor for creative documentaries, as well as head of programming at Art House Cinema Kriterion (Amsterdam, NL).  

During the meeting, Robert Knoth & Antoinette de Jong, Annette Behrens, Dirk Jan Visser and Thomas Kuijpers, artists from the exhibition "A New Display: Visual Storytelling at a Crossroads", will also present their work.

National Museum in Krakow, Main Building (The Samurai Room)

al. 3 Maja 1

14.05.2016, 2 p.m.