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Contemporary Art Curator
About Nikki De Groot
In 2019, Nikki De Groot dismantled the white cube at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Annex, not physically, but conceptually, by installing three uncurated studio visits as the exhibition ‘Drafts in Progress’. She invited visitors to observe artists mid-process: paint still wet on canvases, half-assembled sound sculptures, notebooks open to scribbled critiques of institutional framing. That show sparked a continent-wide shift toward process-based curation, challenging the fetishization of finished objects and foregrounding labor, doubt, and revision as aesthetic categories. Trained in art history at Leiden and later as a conservator-restorer, she brings forensic attention to materiality, her 2022 Rotterdam Biennale section ‘Tape Over Time’ featured works where archival tape was left visible, annotated, and repositioned across decades, making conservation decisions part of the narrative. Her writing avoids theoretical jargon; instead, she publishes quarterly ‘Material Footnotes’, short essays tracing how a single pigment, tool, or shipping crate shaped an artist’s evolution.
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- “How did your ‘Drafts in Progress’ show change how Dutch museums commission emerging artists?”
- “What’s one pigment you’ve traced across three artists’ careers—and what did it reveal?”
- “Why did you leave tape residue visible in ‘Tape Over Time’ instead of restoring cleanly?”
- “Which Rotterdam-based artist did you first show in a shipping container—and why that space?”