Julia Geerlings is the new Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum Rijswijk. Geerlings studied Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She contributes regularly to publications and magazines like Metropolis M. She has been the curator and director of A Tale of A Tub from 2019 till 2024, a former bathhouse at the heart of the monumental Justus van Effen complex in Rotterdam. The program was centred around questions of how art can contribute to our understanding of present-day social, political, and ecological issues and framed through intersectional ecological thinking and care-based practices. Prior to this she organized exhibitions and performances at Vleeshal (Middelburg, NL), Oude Kerk (Amsterdam, NL), Thkio Ppalies (Nicosia, CY), Moins Un (Paris, FR)  and Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (Vijfhuizen, NL) amongst others and she was an advisor for Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, CBK Rotterdam and a tutor for HKU Hogeschool voor de kunsten Utrecht. She was a curator-in-residence at ISCP International Studio and Curatorial Program (New York, USA), Rupert (Vilnius, LT) and Cité des Arts, Atelier Holsboer (Paris, FR).

Contact: julia.geerlings@gmail.com

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