Emily Pethick

Emily Pethick is an independent curator from London, currently based in Amsterdam. She was the director of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2018–2025, and prior to that the director of The Showroom, London (2008–2018) and of Casco, Utrecht (2005-2008) and the curator at Cubitt, London (2003-2004). She has (co-) edited numerous books, including an upcoming monograph on Oscar Murillo, and books by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Ricardo Basbaum, Dave Hullfish Bailey and The Otolith Group, as well as readers Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools (2022), Cluster: Dialectionary (2014), Circular Facts(2011), Casco Issues X and X, (all Sternberg Press). She has participated in numerous juries for artist awards, including the 2017 Turner Prize. 

 

Emily@DAI:

2025 APRiCot Garden ~ Research as Regenerative Practice

2024 and onward: honorary strategic advisor at DAI's External Advisory Board

2017 ROAMING ASSEMBLY #14 ~ Towards Entangled Modes of Becoming More 

2026-2017 COOP: Curating Positions 

2007-2008 Publications Project