The Center Cannot Hold / Interview Anna Colin #3
Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator and researcher based in Kent, UK.
Alongside her freelance activities, which straddle the curatorial and the pedagogical and increasingly engage the natural environment and open spaces, Anna is training in horticulture and garden design, while completing a PhD in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Her doctoral research unpacks the notion of alternative in multi-public educational organisations from the late 19th century to the present, in the UK and further afield.
Anna was a co-founder and director of Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London then Margate (2013-20). She worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2014-20), associate director at Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris (2011-12), and curator at Gasworks, London (2007-10).
Anna has curated exhibitions at venues including CA2M, Móstoles/Madrid; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool; Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo; GAM, Turin; La Synagogue de Delme, Delme; Le Quartier, Quimper; La Maison pop, Montreuil; and The Women's Library, London
In 2015-16, Anna was co-curator, with Lydia Yee, of British Art Show 8 (Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton).
Isabelle Andriessen investigates different ways of physically animating inanimate materials, and questions what is between being human and non-human, between living and nonliving.
She was artist in residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2018. She also participated in the Arts and Science Honours programme of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2016 following her studies at the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her solo exhibitions include Tschumipaviljoen, in the public space of Groningen (2018); Resilient Bodies, at Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn (2017) and Galleri CC, in Malmö (2016). Isabelle Andriessen has also participated in group exhibitions at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, (2018); the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018), Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (2018); the CAB Foundation, Brussels (2017); and Skulptur Bredelar, Bredelar (2016).