BIO
A curator, artist, researcher, educator and mother, Anna Kerekes holds a PhD in Arts Studies and Practices from the University of Quebec in Montreal. She embraces research-creation as a modus operandi in all her hybrid practices.
She’s a full professor at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes and teaching since 2021 contemporary art theory and artistic research practices focused on somatic experiences. She is part of the editorial team of the Canadian journal TURBA, dedicated to the study, theory, and practice of curatorial strategies in the performing arts. She co-founded the research-oriented artist residency space ÉCHOTONE in Ganges, France. She is also a guest of the Master's Mentoring Program at the Department of Art Theory and Curating at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Between 2018-2021, upon invitation of Nicolas Bourriaud, she worked as senior curator at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, where she developed exhibition projects, talks and publications, as well as took part in the activities of MO.CO.’s Art School. Her collaboration with Jonas Mekas transformed the way she associates notions of memory and daily life through artistic practices. From the Foucauldian notion of “care for oneself and the others”, she develops an ethical, artistic, and political approach.
Among the independent projects that she curated: QUIDAM by Geoffrey Badel (ÉCHOTONE, Ganges), Unweave, Unveil. Chiral Landscapes of Exile (L’Imagier, Gatineau), Taking Care (Ars Electronica, Linz), Jonas Mekas. In the Praise of the Ordinary (Phi Center, Montreal).
As an independent writer and art critic, she contributes to exhibition catalogs and magazines.