Jan Verwoert

Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine; his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies, and monographs.

He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial program and the Ha'Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv.

He is the author of "Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous", MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006, the essay collection "Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want", Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute 2010, and, together with Michael Stevenson, "Animal Spirits ‒ Fables in the Parlance of Our Time", Christoph Keller Editions, JRP, Zurich 2013.