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Renske Janssen
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Biographical Notes
Renske Janssen is a Rotterdam based curator. She has been curator at the Witte de With since 2006. She has a Masters title in Contemporary Art Theory and Dutch Art Policy from the University of Utrecht. She collaborated on For Real (2000), Display (2001) and Life in a Glass House (2002) at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. At the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam she organized Bantar Gebang (De Rijke/De Rooij) and Mindset (Saskia Olde Wolbers). For the Witte de With she has curated solo exhibitions of the work of Mathias Poledna (2006), Tris Vonna-Michell (2007) and Ian Wallace (2008). For the Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen she recently curated Aesthetics as a way of Survival with Germaine Kruip (2009). She is currently developing a three day cycle on the idea of performance for Witte de With's Morality program under the working title Let Us Compare Mythologies.