Francesco Stocchi

Francesco Stocchi is curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Recent exhibitions include "Brancusi-Rosso-Man Ray –Framing Sculpture", a study on the results of sculptural representation, a commissioned project by Oscar Tuazon, and the exhibition "Minimal Myth" that explores the influence of minimalism on contemporary aesthetics.

He is founding editor of the annual publication AGMA, a magazine on exhibition making. Stocchi writes regularly for exhibition catalogues and art magazines.

He has contributed essays to museum catalogues and monographic publications on various artists, among others Cindy Sherman, Gelatin, Arcangelo Sassolino, Judith Fegerl and Christoph Meier. Recently published essays include "Every critical act is a creative act" for When attitudes becomes form. Bern 1969/Venice 2013, and the monographs Jorge Peris and Francesca Woodman Photographs 1978-81.