Saskia van Stein
TESTSITE: SCHIEBLOCK
Employment history
2002 – present Curator, Netherlands Architecture Institute
Exhibitions (selection)
Aug. 2010 – present VACANT NL, where architecture meets ideas
The Dutch entry for the 12th architecture biannual of Venice i.c.w. Rietveld Landscape. The exhibition investigates how to deal with temporality and vacancy as cultural and design challenge.
http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/on_location/item
Sept. 2009 – present Architecture of Consequence – Dutch design on the Future
Exhibition with 24 (young) offices which engage in the urgent matters of our time.
http://www.architectureofconsequence.nl/
Location: Sao Paulo, Moscow, Rotterdam, Nijmegen
Sept. 2009 – Jan. 2010 Open City – Designing Coexistence
Cocurator of the 105 open podium events animating the exhibitions of the 4th International Architecture Biannual Rotterdam (IABR).
http://www.iabr.nl/NL/open_city/
Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2008 Archiphoenix – Faculties for Architecture
Turned the Dutch Pavilion, at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, into a weeklong stage for research and exploration and a debate platform focussing on the capacities and capabilities of architecture ‐ beyond building.
http://www.facultiesforarchitecture.org/
Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2008 Upload CITY
Upload City shows videos downloaded from the world wide web: videos representing the urban. Ranging from experimental collages, to how the city is used by a generation of freestylers seemingly not bound by gravity to DYI buildingguides.
http://www.uploadcity.org/site/
May 2008 ‐ Sept. 2008 NL 2028, Olympic Fire
Investigated the feasibility, the meaning and the spatial challenges of hosting the Olympic Games in the Netherlands in 2028.
http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/exhibition_archive/detailexhibitionarchive/_rp_left1_elementId/1_250086
May 2007 – Sept. 2007 Architecture of the Night – Luminous buildings
Showing how over the last hundred years the use of artificial light has changed the way we design and build as well as how we experience the built‐up environment at night as well as raising the current issues connected with its use. An adaptation of an existing exhibition.
Sept. 2006 – April 2007 Neither Town nor Country, The Spatially disordered Netherlands This exhibition uses maps, drawings, props and photographs to give viewers an image of the unpredictable ways these "drosscape" zones spaces tend to develop.
Sept. 2006 ‐ April 2007 New Faces in European Architecture, NAi Maastricht
This venue opening exhibition, showed work of talents: David Adjaye, Jürgen Mayer H., PLOT = BIG + JDS and SeARCH, the avant garde of Northern European architects.
Sept. 2005 – Jan 2006 JUST in, Dutch interior designers
Nine (interior) architect and designers designed interiors of the 21st century. The cultural role and identity of the interior investigates in it’s global perspective.
May 2005 – Aug. 2005 FLOW
Showing alternatives in the framework of the 2nd International Architecture Biannual Rotterdam. These projects showed how water (and the issues connected to it) could deployed positively as a design instrument.
March 2005 – May 2005 ADS & Architecture
Selling the image: what determines the image of the architect, and and architecture. A (re)construction of the influences commercials have on the perception of the architect and how we experience the city.
Sept. 2004 – Nov. 2004 Extreme MAKEover, six projects on large transformation areas
On how global capital and urban growth and fabric are related.
Sept.2003 – Nov. 2003 INdecorum, 10 Dutch theatre scenographers
Showing a selection ranging from tradition to experimental ways in which theatre plays with the (symbolic) representation of space(s).
Febr. 2003 – April 2003 Bas Princen, Slow Hunting. Pure Pleasure seekers #1
Solo exhibition of a young photographer showing all sorts of appropriation of the landscape for leisure activity.
Febr. 2003 – April 2003 IN progress, 13x young Dutch Designers
A panorama for young and upcoming talented designer brought together: from theorists to practical pioneers.
Sept. 2002 – Nov. 2002 Fresh Facts, the 5 best architects who have built under 40
Other:
Nov. 1999 – July 2002 ArchiCases Rotterdam Art Foundation
A forum in which debates took place around the relationship of architecture and urbanism with social and economic complicities.
Dec. 1998 – Sept. 1999 Lived and worked in NYC.
Sept. 1994 – Sept. 1998 Assistant for artist/designer Irene Fortuyn at Studio Fortuyn/ O’Brien during my Studies at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Committee:
June 2005 – present Artistic committee member of Showroom MAMA
MAMA is a platform for visual culture on the cutting edge of visual arts and popular culture and serves as a home base for the youngest
generation of producers of images, artists and an audience aged between 16 and 26.
Sept 2009 – present Foundation Book
This foundation helps artist to fund, produce and finish publications.
2009 Foundation SKOR
SKOR is a nationally operating organization, which develops exceptional art projects in relation to public spaces.
Presentations and lectures:
June 2010 Moderator Lab van de Verstedelijking http://labdeverstedelijking.nl/
March 2010 Lecture on Yona Friedman, Navid Nuur and Thomas Lomme, Stroom The Hague
2002 – present Many as the curator of exhibition/ related topics.
May 2009 Moderator of the Witte de With curators debate on collaboration.
2003‐ 2007 SALON, initiator & moderator at meetings for young urban professional.
Teaching experience:
May 2009 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
June 2009 State supervisor at the exams for Royal Art Academy The Hague.
Sept. 2005 – Sept 2008 Forum (design attitude) at the Dutch Design academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Topic addresses: the future of the Library, the future of the museum: post colonial thought.
Education:
Sept. 2008 – June 2009 University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Semester of gender studies: Curating feminism.
Sept. 2004 Berenschot project management training.
2001‐ 2002 VU University Rotterdam,
Semester of philosophy of fear.
2000 University of Leiden, The Netherlands,
First year in the basics of philosophy.
Sept. 1994 – Sept. 1998 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands,
Visual arts department.
