Krist Gruijthuijsen
Krist Gruijthuijsen is a Dutch curator and art critic who was serving as Director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany, until 2023. At KW, he curated exhibitions with, among others, Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Ronald Jones, Hiwa K, Willem de Rooij, Beatriz González, David Wojnarowicz, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, and Hassan Sharif.
Career
Gruijthuijsen was Artistic Director of the in Graz and Course Director of the MA Fine Arts Department at the in Amsterdam. He is one of the co-founding directors of in Amsterdam.Gruijthuijsen has organized numerous exhibitions and projects over the past decade, including, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Swiss Institute,, Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum, Arnolfini, Project Arts Centre, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and .
In 2022, Gruijthuijsen co-curated the art installed at the Château Royal hotel in Berlin, including works by John Bock, Thomas Demand and Alicja Kwade.
Other activities
In 2018, Gruijthuijsen was a member of the selection committee which put forward Moritz Wesseler as director of Fridericianum. That same year, he served on the jury that selected Sondra Perry for the Nam June Paik Award.In 2023, Gruijthuijsen served as curatorial advisor of Artissima art fair, alongside Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.