Léon Kruijswijk
20.09. — 27.09.2024
→ Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca
Léon Kruijswijk (b. 1989, NL) is Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and works as a freelance curator and writer. With his curatorial practice, Kruijswijk addresses themes on the intersection of queer and gender theory, activism and institutional critique, and navigates the crossovers between visual art, literature, film, experimental music, dance and performance. At KW, he has curated large-scale performances of Alexis Blake, Michele Rizzo and Billy Bultheel & James Richards, and he has (co-)curated exhibitions with artists including BLESS, Coco Fusco, Luiz Roque, Sung Tieu (forthcoming 2025) and Oraib Toukan. He also curated the BPA// Exhibition 2022 of the BPA// Berlin program for artists.
As a freelancer, Kruijswijk co-curates the 2024 Present Future section at Artissima together with Joel Valabrega. Writings of his have been published on TextWork – Fondation d’enterprise Pernod Ricard, on Mister Motley and in Metropolis M. He contributed to the anthology Queer Exhibition Histories and to various artist publications, among others of Edith Dekyndt and Jaanus Samma. In the Netherlands, he organized exhibitions and events as a freelancer at Framer Framed, NEVERNEVERLAND and De School Amsterdam among others. Kruijswijk obtained his MA degrees in Museum Studies and in Art History: Contemporary Art at the University of Amsterdam.