On the final day of Alexis Blake's exhibition Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve: the archive the artist will speak to curator Léon Kruijswijk about the genesis of the performance that lies at the centre of this exhibition. The conversation will address the notion of the archive in the context of Blake’s performative practice and will look at the previous iterations of Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve of which Kruijswijk curated one at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in early 2023.
Free
In English
In the Biergarten
© Liz Ligon
Léon Kruijswijk (b. 1989, NL) is Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and works as a freelance curator and writer. With his curatorial practice, Kruijswijk addresses themes on the intersection of queer and gender theory, activism and institutional critique, and navigates the crossovers between visual art, literature, film, experimental music, dance and performance. At KW, he has (co-)curated exhibitions and performances with artists including Alexis Blake, BLESS, Billy Bultheel & James Richards, Coco Fusco, Michele Rizzo, Luiz Roque, Sung Tieu (forthcoming 2025) and Oraib Toukan. He also curated the BPA// Exhibition 2022 of the BPA// Berlin program for artists.
As a freelancer, Kruijswijk co-curates the 2024 Present Future section at Artissima together with Joel Valabrega. Writings of his have been published on TextWork – Fondation d’enterprise Pernod Ricard, on Mister Motley and in Metropolis M. He contributed to the anthology Queer Exhibition Histories and to various artist publications, among others of Edith Dekyndt and Jaanus Samma. In the Netherlands, he organized exhibitions and events as a freelancer at Framer Framed, NEVERNEVERLAND and De School Amsterdam among others. Kruijswijk obtained his MA degrees in Museum Studies and in Art History: Contemporary Art at the University of Amsterdam.
