about me
Camiel van Winkel writes on contemporary art and cinema. Trained as an art historian, he is a senior lecturer and researcher at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. He is the author of various books: Moderne leegte. Over kunst en openbaarheid (1999), The Regime of Visibility (2005), The Myth of Artisthood (2007/2013), and During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed: Contemporary Art and the Paradoxes of Conceptualism (Valiz, 2012). In close collaboration wit artist Joke Robaard he published Archive Species (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2018), the result of an indepth inquiry into the representation of the clothed body in print media since the 1970s. His latest book is a collection of essays on film, entitled Lichaam en steen. Over film (Antwerp: Letterwerk, 2023).
• PhD in the Humanities, University of Amsterdam: During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed. Contemporary Art and the Paradoxes of Conceptualism. Supervisors prof. dr. D. Cherry and dr. J. Boomgaard, University of Amsterdam (17 February 2012)
• MA in Art History, University of Groningen
• Former band member of Kleg
• interviewed by Peter Nijenhuis (March 2018)
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